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Coaching? For me?

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A lot has been said about coaching these days. It seems that suddenly the world woke up for the subject in the last years.

People talk about Business Coaching, NLP Coaching, Executive Coaching, Commercial Coaching, Team Coaching, Life Coaching, Food Coaching, Health Coaching, … coaching.

I think you get the idea. In other words, nobody can have a simple and practical definition that everyone agrees!

The question is: what is Executive Coaching for, after all? This is the more traditional side of coaching. Some say it’s the only coaching ttype here is. Even when we are referring to “Life Coaching,” which some people use in the market to separate coaching in the professional and personal sphere, in practice, it is coaching.

Can you separate the person from the professional?

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Does my sales team need spectacles?

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Spectacles? Um…

Do not be alarmed that it is not an advertisement for the purchase of spectacles or contact lenses.

However, this issue has to be addressed if we link it to your sales team’s activity.

One of the things that we most love internally in Ideas and Challenges is the theme of coaching.

Not the “Life Coaching” aspect that is so fashionable, but the more entrepreneurial aspect of “Executive Coaching” and “Sales Team Coaching” in which we have been giving letters for years and in which we were pioneers in Portugal.

You might think:

“But isn’t that a fad?”

Yeah, it does look that way when you look at everything that’s going on around you. However, all fashions have good and bad things.

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Anatomy of a complex sale?

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Complex Sale?

Nowadays, selling is becoming more and more complex.

“So far there’s nothing new about that”, that’s what you’re probably thinking.

What used to be done with two or three phone calls and one meeting takes now months and months until a final decision is reached.

It’s normal to say: “the process is stuck”, “there’s no way they’ll decide about this”, and so on.

One of the main mistakes we find when working with the teams in Training and Business Coaching processes, where we have the opportunity to deeply analyse their process and business method, has to do with the lack of strategy.

It is commonplace that we continue to look at a complex sale in the same way as we look at a simple sale.

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