Archive for Tag: #SilentKillerofSales

Stop motivating comfortable salespeople. Scare them

A comfortable salesperson is a dangerous thing—dangerous to the business, to their own growth, and to the team’s overall productivity. Motivating him doesn’t work-scaring him does. Comfort is dangerous to selling. Your ‘pep talks’, contests, trainings, even repeated “Believe in yourself!” quotes, don’t break comfort in sales. If anything, they reinforce the comfort. That salesperson

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