{"id":470,"date":"2019-09-25T22:54:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T22:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galesburgradio.com\/v2\/?p=470"},"modified":"2019-12-02T22:55:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:55:03","slug":"sales-meeting-or-training-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/2019\/09\/25\/sales-meeting-or-training-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Meeting or Training Meeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we get into what we should call them, let\u2019s start with, are you actually conducting regular meetings? If you are, congratulations, and if you\u2019re not\u2026 START<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be honest, nobody likes sales meetings, including the person responsible for putting the meetings together.\u00a0 Creating good, productive meetings, especially on a regular basis, is not easy.<\/p>\n

While regular meetings are not a must to running a profitable business, most successful business owners will tell you, without them, you\u2019ll never be as successful as you can be!\u00a0 If you have three or four employees, you should be having some sort of structured meetings to keep your team informed and improving.<\/p>\n

Now, onto what you should call them, Sales Meetings or Training Meetings?<\/p>\n

Training meetings is the preferred verbiage for two reasons; One, the word \u201ctraining\u201d symbolizes that you are getting better.\u00a0 As owners\/managers\/coaches, it\u2019s part of your job to help your team get better EVERY DAY and that very much includes training<\/em><\/strong> EVERY WEEK!<\/p>\n

Secondly, I have never met anyone that honestly admits to liking \u201csales meetings\u201d.\u00a0 In a survey of over 540 media reps conducted by ENS Media, it was revealed that 89% of the reps felt sales meetings were a WASTE OF TIME! I am going to go out on a limb to say, all things equal, if those same meetings would have been called \u201ctraining meetings\u201d the results would have been a bit more positive. This is simply because the reps might have felt that someone was trying to HELP them rather than just sitting in on a \u201csales meeting\u201d.<\/p>\n

Training meetings create a positive vibe within a business, and employees appreciate being part of a \u201cnurturing\u201d culture. \u00a0So, not only will you have a better trained and informed team, you\u2019ll have a more positive team, and everyone knows what that can do for a business.<\/p>\n

If you would like help in either starting regular training meetings or improving on your current meetings,\u00a0click here<\/a>\u00a0for a list of the \u201c10 Do\u2019s & Don\u2019ts for Effective Meetings\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before we get into what we should call them, let\u2019s start with, are you actually conducting regular meetings? If you are, congratulations, and if you\u2019re not\u2026 START! Let\u2019s be honest, nobody likes sales meetings, including the person responsible for putting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound-advice","tag-sound-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DtW8-7A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galesburgradio.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}