Preface

Weird Sales Training Experience

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I’m working with a client and partway through the morning’s sales training I do a “confession session” where reps share their most embarrassing moments.

It’s a very funny time. Colleagues who have known one another for a decade or more are shocked to find out some of the stupid things their peers have done in their selling infancy.

We take a break, and as everyone rushes off to eat, drink, phone, text, etc., the cartoon (pictured here) is still up on the screen.

A woman walks up and barks loudly: “I am very offended by that image.”

“What? You are?” I’m shocked. Then people start to gather in as they hear ...

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