High performing teams are one of the only sustainable competitive advantages you have left. Competitors can copy your ideas, match your prices and even recruit your star employee but they can never beat your high performing team.

Customers are smarter and have more choices than ever before. If you want to stand out from the crowd you need to be different and you need to build teams where everyone is 100% customer focused. All of your employees need to live and breathe customer service.

Most sales meetings are a complete waste of time and money. Managers try to pack in too much into the agenda. There is little time devoted to learning and practicing sales skills, and there is never enough free time available to network share informally and have fun.

For teams to be effective and successful, team members need to get to know each other better and build a higher level of trust and respect for each other. With all of the changes in teams and the constant pressure to perform most teams do not invest enough time at the beginning to build a solid foundation.

Powerful Sales and Marketing Presentations that will Motivate & Inspire your Sales Team

Peak Performers want to work with other successful people and to be a part of a winning team. Steve Jobs of Apple spoke about having a team of “A” players. Most teams struggle to perform at their best as Building a Team of Peak Performers is not easy and it takes time.

We all want to be a part of a team of engaged, aligned and motivated people. The problem is that most teams are not teams at all; rather they are groups of people put together to get a job done. Groups are never as productive or as fun as teams.

"It all begins with self awareness" and really knowing who you are. Knowing your Communication Style, what makes you tick and how others perceive you, is the key to self-development and personal excellence. Having a clear idea of your strengths and areas to improve will make you a better leader, team member, employee and person.

If you want your people to be motivated, engaged and productive team members you need to give them more and better feedback. Most people get very little feedback and the once or twice per year performance review is not enough.

If you could change one habit today what would it be? We all have many habits that we would like to change however there is usually one habit that can have a major positive or negative impact on our lives. We all know what smoking, lack of exercise and poor eating habits will have a negative impact on our heath.

Have you ever heard yourself or someone else say; "I could have sold more BUT....." What ever follows that BUT is an excuse. The most popular excuses for not selling more are; the price was too high, the competition was too tough, there was no budget, my territory is bad, I have difficult clients, my quota is too high, they will buy eventually buy but not now, the economy is bad, we don't have what we need to make sales.......and on and on it goes.