Is Your sales training a Hail Mary Pass of desperation or a valuable part of a broader sales strategy? Where sales training is not effective is when used as an isolated quick fix. Listen to Drew Urteaga and Drew Kiran break down the three main types of training. 

The three major types of sales training are evaluated:

• Motivational Training
• Event Based Training
• Sales Training as Part of a Broader Strategy

In an entertaining style, Drew takes a critical view of training and play examples to illustrate the points.   You’ll enjoy the banter and find yourself enjoying the two seasoned sales leaders poke fun at the stereotypes we all dread about sales training.  Most importantly, the episode quickly pivots to a constructive view of how it should be done. 

Drew Urteaga takes the audience deep into the broader strategy of sales training. Sales training is a vital piece to your sales strategy, but cannot be the only piece. A comprehensive strategy includes five steps: Planning, Engagement, Organization, Execution and Support. 

Listen to Drew reinforce the strategic fit of sales training, when he brings in Joe Vitalone to comment on this topic.  Joe is the EVP and President of Mitel Networks. Joe's been involved in leading five companies to successful sale or IPO, and an expert on enabling the sales force.  He was asked, "If you are hired to get results quickly by a board and a CEO, and the goal here is to make money for all the shareholders, what do you do in the first ninety days?"

1. People: Focus on the people first, making sure that I've got the team that I want.
2. Process: Establish a common sales process
3. Product: Ensure everybody on the sales team really understands the product inside and out, and can present it back to me or my CEO, or to a CEO of another company.

Sales Training is a vital part of executing all three of Joe’s priorities.  When done in context of a greater strategy, Sales Training tactics breathe life into the strategy.