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Did you know that less than 20% of trainees:

  • apply their learning in their work
  • in a way that is aligned with business strategy
  • that produces concrete and worthwhile results?

Don’t settle for a dismal 20% Return on Learning Investment! Our High Impact Learning system (HIL) can boost those odds to 90% and more.

This fascinating Advantage webinar, the first in a 3-part series, reveals how HIL creates “stickiness” from learning by linking it to business results. When organizations put the HIL system into practice, people apply new learning in ways that are aligned with strategy, accelerate the rate of change and adoption, and generate meaningful business results.

Register here to replay the webinar, “How To Create Stickiness To Generate Bottom Line Impact.”

One of the things clients like best about our SalesOptimization framework is that it can be employed any way they want it, in small or large bites, however it meets their needs.

When our client ADP needed to sell a higher-value offering to new C-Level contacts, for example, they drew from three areas of the framework:

  • Right Process – a new sales cadence methodology, a roadmap that synchronized the way ADP sold with the way customers bought
  • Right Capabilities – consultative selling, sales cycle alignment, and coaching skill development; Impact Maps that linked learning with business results
  • Right Communication – online SVP avatars and a faux-Fortune Magazine article that reinforced new sales strategy

This SalesOptimization approach was precisely what ADP needed – and increased sales contracts, expanded business, and a 467% return on learning investment proved the point.

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100 Best Companies to Work For

March 26, 2013
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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, which ranks an impressive 46th, is one of our featured success case clients.

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Does Your Sales Process Only Go Halfway?

March 21, 2013
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Turn that “halfway” process into a dual approach and you will reap far better sales results.

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Complimentary Preview: The Applied Leadership Simulation

March 21, 2013

Join us May 14 in Princeton or May 17 in Cincinnati

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Getting Leaders to Soar

March 15, 2013

This spring, help your new and seasoned leaders soar by experiencing Advantage’s complimentary Essentials of Business Leadership simulation at a city near you.

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High Impact Learning: The Advantage Way Certification

February 21, 2013

Link learning to business impact and get results! Join us May 14-15, 2013 in Minneapolis.

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Complimentary Preview: Coaching for Execution

February 20, 2013

Join us April 11 in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Show Why L/D is a Strategic Resource

February 7, 2013
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Register for our complimentary 3-part Advantage Way webinar series and find out how.

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Make Business Impact Second Nature

January 31, 2013
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See how our bedrock, proprietary Advantage Way system delivers meaningful business impact from learning.

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Success Demands the Right People

January 22, 2013
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Our Right People approach helps leaders place, retain and develop sales talent.

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The Advantage Way System Webinar Series: Driving Business Results Through High Impact Learning

January 21, 2013

Webinar #3: Strategic Development of Your Most Precious Resource – Talent

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Free Trial! Give your sales organization the predictive edge.

January 17, 2013

Wish you could predict hiring a successful salesperson? Match the right salesperson with the right role? Now you can.

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Get Aligned with Customers

January 15, 2013
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Use the Advantage Buy/Sell Roadmap to make sure the way you sell is aligned with the way your customers buy.

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What’s Stopping Your Sales Force?

January 10, 2013
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Get a fresh take. Replay our webinar, “Analysis: Defining the Elusive Gaps That Can Derail Your Sales Strategy.”

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New Sales Process: Like Pushing a Rock Uphill?

January 3, 2013
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Eliminate obstacles by making sure that any sales process change has three principles at its core.

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Sales Leadership Tips for 2013

December 27, 2012
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Because the customer will continue to be king in 2013, you must be rigorous and innovative about fulfilling customers’ needs and expectations.

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Clear Up Your Foggy Sales Vision

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Open up a direct line of sight with the Advantage SalesOptimization framework.

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Why You Need Charisma

December 11, 2012

And how you can cultivate its key ingredients

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