Author name: thediligencefix

Your best salespeople don’t just close deals — they build relationships that make the next deal easier, the renewal a given, and the referral inevitable. Here’s what that looks like when it’s done intentionally.

You’ve hit a plateau. The team is solid, the market opportunity is real, and you’ve made the investments. So why isn’t revenue moving? The answer is almost never what’s happening outside your organization.

You’ve made real investments in AI tools — and your team is using them. The harder question isn’t whether AI works. It’s whether what’s underneath it will hold. Here’s what has to come first for any AI investment to actually pay off.

Most sales leaders have good people. The question worth asking is whether the foundation underneath them is as strong as they are. Here’s what separates teams that perform consistently from those that depend on heroics.

As it stands today, the vast majority of buyers would prefer not to deal with salespeople – they just may get their wish. But as the adage says, ‘be careful what you wish for.’ Instead of tolerating some well-meaning but often goofy sellers, these buyers will be in the crosshairs of everyone’s artificially intelligent-dominated sales funnel.

The most common reason that managers give for not coaching is that they don’t have enough time, but it’s a bigger issue than that. Most organizations will hire a company to conduct a manager coaching workshop and then send these busy folks on their way. There isn’t much follow-up. The workshop isn’t typically followed up with a coaching playbook or tools, development criteria, recognition, measurement or consequences for coaching or not coaching. So how do we stop driving in circles around the same cul-de-sac?