Sales Reps Spend Less Than 37% of Their Time Selling (and Only 18% Inside CRM), New Research Shows

There’s a groundswell occurring in the way corporate sales teams and representatives sell, new research is suggesting. InsideSales.com Labs (a division of AI-fueled sales acceleration company InsideSales.com) released a new Time Management Study this week. The research is based on responses from nearly 200 sales reps including more than dozen in-depth interviews, to provide a closer look at the way today’s inside and outside sales reps are spending their time.

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How Leaders Build — And Destroy — Trust

Trust is the belief or confidence that one party has in the reliability, integrity and honesty of another party. It is the expectation that the faith one places in someone else will be honored. When I asked 537 managers how leaders build and destroy trust, here is what I learned . . .

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5 Powerful Steps To Improve Employee Engagement

Today more than ever, organizations rely on the energy, commitment and engagement of their workforce in order to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century. As a former Navy SEAL, I can assure you that one of the fundamental reasons we continue to dominate our battlefield and defeat a very dangerous and decentralized enemy is due to the fact that we have 100% employee engagement. We have ecosystems of empowered teams that are fully engaged and working in a “decentralized command” environment.

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You Have No Business Leading People if You Can’t Trust Them!

by Jesse Kook Republished from Business 2 Community, September 16, 2017 I’ve heard on more than one occasion a leader mention how employees need to earn their trust. My first reaction is to cringe, shift in my seat and then ask, “why?” Some of the responses I’ve gotten are, “I don’t know if I can…

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