by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 27, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Stories can be powerful tools to shape behavior and dramatically communicate expectations. Wise executives continually seek for opportunities to capture and then relate a story that supports and illustrates the organization’s culture. If the story can be tied to a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 4, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management
One of the most common complaints I hear from my clients is this: “I can’t seem to motivate the salespeople to call on prospects and develop them into new customers.” There is a relatively simple, fun, and inexpensive way to remedy this situation. It’s called a sales...
by Kahle Wisdom | Mar 24, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management
Question: I’d like to provide my sales people (and all the employees) information on costs, profits, etc. so that they have a healthy understanding and respect for our owner’s investment and risk as well as their value. Any suggestions as to how to go about it?...
by Kahle Wisdom | Mar 21, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Christian-Leadership
“Plans fail when there is no counsel, but they succeed when advisers are many.“ (Proverbs 15:22) This is an often-quoted verse, a piece of advice from King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived. While the advice doesn’t appear to be pointed only at business...
by Kahle Wisdom | Mar 1, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management
I call it FIP. Fine in the Past. It refers to all the sales and marketing efforts, ideas, policies, principles, techniques, and strategies that worked well in the past but are no longer effective. The past is everything that’s pre-2012. I still recall a poignant...
by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 20, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Before you respond by lecturing me on the wisdom of setting goals, you should know that I am committed to the process of goal setting as a best practice for a number of different business expressions. Goal-setting, for example, is at the heart of our Kahle Way® Sales...