Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders - Leadership Insights from IES 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Dell Technologies Federal Sales Leader Jim Kelly

Leadership Insights from IES 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Dell Technologies Federal Sales Leader Jim Kelly

03/12/24 • 31 min

Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

This is episode 656.

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Today's show featured an interview with Jim Kelly, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Federal at Dell Technologies. Jim is the 2024 Institute for Excellence in Sales Lifetime Achievement in Sales Award Recipient.

JIM'S ADVICE: "Know your brief. Do the research, understand how each spoke in the tire actually impacts the other. That’s what we do a good job of, I think, at Dell, is understanding how security and zero trust impacts AI, which impacts user experience, which impacts the edge and multi-cloud environments, and then all the way into next generation US telco ecosystems. That is understanding not only what those products and solutions and outcomes are, but how they impact your customer. I’ve probably given the brief about 70 times in the last three or four months to almost every segment of customer, partner and community. It resonates when you know it. It makes an impact."

This is episode 656.

Read the complete transscription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website here.

Purchase Fred Diamond's best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now!

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What's Next for Women in B2B Sales with Leaders Lori Richardson and Gina Stracuzzi

This is episode 655.

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Today's show featured an interview with Lori Richardson from Score More Sales and Women Sales Pros.

It also featured Institute for Excellence in Sales Women in Sales Program Director Gina Stracuzzi.

LORI'S ADVICE: " Listen in your meetings and make sure that people are speaking up that might be sitting quietly. Just say, “We haven’t heard from you. What are your thoughts?” Then just ask individually, “How are we doing with women in sales here? What’s missing? What could I do better?” Don’t assume that just because you have a number of women on your team that you’re all set, because there may be things that you could do and improve on.?"

GINA'S ADVICE: "Investing in the professional development of all your employees really, is critical. A lot of companies will tell you, first thing out of the gate is, “We have a lot of internal resources, they have access to all kinds of programs.” When you ask them, “Well, how many people actually avail themselves at those? Is it a safe space if it’s live? Do they feel like they can talk about what’s of concern to them, or their fears, or their career aspirations? Usually the answer, if people are being honest, is no. Find outside resources, such as the IES to fill those gaps."

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Seven Tips for Better Sales Prospecting Using AI from Vlad Oleksiienko from Reply.IO

This is episode 657.

Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website.

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Today’s show featured an interview with Vlad Oleksiienko, VP of Growth at Reply.io, a sales engagement platform provider.

VLAD’S ADVICE: “Great salespeople know their customers. They get into the prospect’s head, and they will use AI to become more effective and productive. Automations help us be more productive. The same with AI. I’m confident we will just increase our productivity and be more effective with AI.”