Encore: Closing Your Sales Productivity Gap

May 10, 2016
Hosted by Bonnie D. Graham

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The buzz: Zzzzs. Is sales productivity, or lack of it, keeping your C-suite awake at night? They have good reason, with the sales quota attainment gap hovering around 52% (CSO Insights). From sheer exhaustion, many companies jump into a technology solution without best practices strategies to address changed buying behavior and the roles of enablement and technology. Help is here! The experts speak. Barbara Giamanco, Social Centered Selling: “If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it” (Michael Jordan). Tamara Schenk, MHI Research Institute: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do” (von Goethe). Robin Saitz, Brainshark: “Be disagreeable and be willing to tackle something unpopular; be imaginative to reframe the problem; and be in a hurry and act with a sense of urgency…you can make a difference in the world” (Malcolm Gladwell). Join us for Closing Your Sales Productivity Gap.

Business Network Innovation with Game Changers, presented by SAP

Tuesday at 9 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel

Game-changing technology strategies are transformational, exciting and disruptive for a reason. They shake up your status quo. They get you thinking about new ways to scale, compete and grow. They move you in amazing new directions. They are also increasingly critical to success in today’s dynamic, competitive, global economy.

Join host Bonnie D. Graham as she invites you to take an additional coffee break with game-changers for our special series on a glimpse into tomorrow’s hot business and industry trends, on Business Network Innovation with Game Changers.

Learn how you can become the savvy Transformation Leader who takes your company across the finish line as you look ahead to the next wave of business innovation.

Business Network Innovation with Game Changers, presented by SAP, can be heard live on Tuesdays at 9 AM Pacific Time / 12 PM Eastern Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.

Bonnie D. Graham

Bonnie D. Graham produced and hosted her first live talk radio show in 1998 on AM1240–WGBB, Long Island, NY’s oldest terrestrial radio station. A few years later, she moved from terrestrial to Internet radio with her author interview show, “Up Close and Personal.” In 2011, working at the enterprise software leader SAP, she developed the concept for a weekly live global business thought leadership roundtable series on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel – and launched “Coffee Break with Game-Changers” on October 5, 2011. Over the next nine years, Bonnie D. created, produced and hosted 46 additional SAP series on the Business Channel, attracting millions of listeners around the world. Since becoming an independent broadcaster in 2019, she has developed and hosted live radio and podcast series on the Business Channel for eight additional organizations, as well as her own weekly series, “Read My Lips: Cool Conversations with Creatives with akaRadioRed,” on the Empowerment Channel. In 2023, her live-streaming “Technology Revolution: The Future of Now” series was ranked No. 6 on FeedSpot’s Top 70 Technology Podcasts to Listen to in 2023. What powers Bonnie D.’s passion for radio? She “loves speaking with smart people!”


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