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Sales [UN]Training

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Your weekly sales strategy guide that will rewire your sales brain to bust bad habits and crush your number. The way that companies train salespeople is broken. Host Kelly Riggs discusses what ACTUALLY works in sales with leading experts in our industry. Forget what you think you know about sales. It's time to train hard and play to win. Kelly Riggs is an author, speaker, and business consultant for executives and companies throughout the United States and Canada. Widely recognized as a powerful speaker and performance coach in the areas of sales, management leadership, and strategic planning, Kelly is a former sales executive, a two-time national Salesperson-of-the-Year, a business owner, and a member of the Forbes’ Coaches Council since 2019. He has written two books: 1-on-1 Management: What Every Great Manager Knows That You Don’t and Quit Whining and Start SELLING! A Step-by-Step Guide to a Hall of Fame Career in Sales.  His third book is the award-winning Counter Mentor Leadership: How to Unlock the Potential of the 4-Generation Workplace, co-written with his Millennial son, Robby Riggs. It was selected as the 2019 Gold Medal winner in the leadership category by Axiom Business Books Awards. Note: No trophies were awarded during the writing of this book. For more information, visit www.BizLockerRoom.com.
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Episodes

Prepare Your Sales Team for Success. What do They Need To Know?

In this episode of Sales [UN]Training, host Kelly Riggs breaks down the complexities of preparing a new salesperson to reach their maximum potential. He discusses why most sales training strategies fall short and the repercussions of sending an ill-prepared salesperson out into the field too soon. Riggs challenges the traditional approach that many companies take towards sales training and offers an in-depth analysis of systemic issues that stifle development and lead to high turnover rates. Fol...

Jul 31, 202325 min

A Sales Brain Upgrade with David Newman, author of Do It! Selling

In this episode of Sales [UN]Training, host Kelly Riggs speaks with David Newman, sales strategist and bestselling author of "Do It! Selling". They discuss how having the right mindset and a structured sales process can boost sales performance and success. Newman shares his insights on the importance of being a better person, putting prospects at the center of the sales process, and having the right come-from ( serving before selling mindset), which helps greatly in making conversations with pro...

Jul 24, 202324 min

What Passes for Sales Coaching is Comical

In this informative episode of Sales [UN]Training, host Kelly Riggs dives into the critical role of sales coaching in transforming sales performance and why many sales leaders struggle to execute it effectively. Kelly shares eye-opening data on the importance of sales coaching and the lack of effectiveness that plagues many sales managers. With a focus on building trust and investing in personal relationships with salespeople, Kelly explains the crucial elements needed to help sales teams reach ...

Jul 17, 202322 min

The "Born Salesperson" Trap with Dave Kurlan

In this episode of Sales on Training, Kelly Riggs talks to Dave Kurlan, founder of Objective Management Group, about the traits that separate top salespeople from the rest and why sales training often fails. As Dave puts it, "closing is overrated." Instead, top salespeople focus on understanding the problems their clients face and provide value in their solutions. Dive into the secrets behind the success of the elite sales professionals as Dave shares, "They want to make sure that if they're goi...

Jul 10, 202325 min

The No. 1 Reason Sales Training Fails

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. We don't put up with it in our personal lives, why do we put up with it in our sales training? In this eye-opening episode of Sales [UN]Training, host Kelly Riggs dives deep into the world of traditional sales training and why it often fails to produce the desired results. Riggs highlights the reliance on product-centric training and lack of practical experience, resulting in salespeople being ill-equi...

Jul 03, 202319 min

The Sales Training Myth

Sales training doesn't work. The stats prove it. The problems are clear. What prevents us from fixing it? A large part of the problem with sales training is due to a systemic issue within organizations. Many companies invest large amounts of money into sales training, but don't see significant results due to underlying issues within their structure and systems. One problem is the reactive and sporadic nature of sales training in many organizations. Training is often done reactively when sales ar...

Jun 26, 202319 min

Welcome to Sales [UN]Training

Welcome to Sales [UN]Training, a very different kind of sales podcast. I'm Kelly Riggs, founder of Business Locker Room, and the author of Quit Whining and Start Selling. For years, I've watched sales teams struggle to improve. The answer always seems to be, we just need sales training. The problem is sales training isn't producing the results that we intend. $70 billion American corporations invest in sales training every year, and yet three out of four salespeople fail. I want to take a deep d...

May 23, 20232 min
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