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April 19, 2024 - Ascender Live - Moving Into the Sales Manager Role [Event Recap]
Pouli jumped on with us during this edition of Ascender Live. These are live workshops that allow you to chat with a facilitator from Force Management. Events like these can be found here. Pouli brought some really great points to a conversation around the topic of "Moving into the Sales Manager Role". We covered some…
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April 5, 2024 - Ascender Insights - Moving Into the Sales Manager Role [Event Recap]
Doug Gilkey and Sean Nappo joined us to talk about what it takes to move into the sales management role and how to do it. They shared some tips for first-time managers, as well. Sean and Doug are two amazing leaders from great organizations. They sat down with us to talk about how individual contributors can break into…
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March 15, 2024 - Ascender Live: Competing against internal priorities... [Event Recap]
Ascender Live: Competing against internal priorities and the "do nothing" mentalityAntonella joined us to cover things like: Delving deeper into the organizations we serve Understanding the political landscape Learning about other internal priorities Why doing nothing can be really attractive to executives Hearing about…
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Congratulations to our latest group of MEDDICC Certified Ascenders!
Shout out to the following crew that have earned their certifications! You'll be awarded your badge and be invited to the Ascender Community Group, as well. The MEDDICC Certified Ascenders group will have a very special event this year that ONLY those who have earned their MEDDICC Certifications will be invited to. You…
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Congratulations to the people that earned their Sales Planning Certification this week!
Congratulations to @Mike Lantzy and @Yuxin Bai! You'll receive your badge and be invited to the Sales Planning Certified Group in the community, today!
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March 1, 2024 - Ascender Insights: Attaching to Buyer Priorities w/ Patrick McLoughlin [Event Recap]
Paddy Mac joined us to talk about attaching yourself to buyer priorities and how you can do so while navigating multiple stakeholders. Paddy Mac walk through a ton of topics, including laying a base understanding of the three buyer personas you're most likely to run into on your sales calls. There's a solid Q&A section…
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Congratulations to the people that earned their MEDDICC Certification this week!
Congratulations to: @Reggie Miles @Ster Voorpijl @Camilla Bomio @Gianluca Ciampalini @Chris MacAulay @James Bailey @Gael Lamarti Kekatos @Sabrina Fuerlinger @Mariola Morales @Angelica Barthel @Marie Faivre Congratulations on earning your MEDDICC Certified Ascender Badge! Be sure to accept your invite to the MEDDICC…
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Congratulations to the people that earned their Sales Planning Certification this week!
Congratulations to @Gael Lamarti Kekatos! You'll be able to join the Sales Planning Certified Ascenders group now and have been awarded the badge!
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February 16, 2024 - Ascender Live - "Selling Beyond the Sales Team" w/ Antonella O'Day [Event Recap]
Antonella O'Day joined us to talk about "Selling Beyond the Sales Team". We defined some terms, including a perfect scenario where all teams are "selling in the same direction". Where all cross-functional disciplines know exactly what to do, and when to do it, during the customer journey. Unfortunately, almost no company…
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Congratulations to our first-ever class of Sales Planning Certified folks!
Congratulations to: @Jim Lyons @Tat Teong Tan @Reggie Miles When you earn this certification, you are awarded a badge and access to our Sales Planning Certified Group. In certification groups, we will have content, resources, and events for you! These groups are a great place for you to connect with others that you know…
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Ascender Pro-Tip: View Courses in Full-Screen Mode
We recommend viewing courses in full-screen to ensure the best learner experience when taking courses. Viewing in full screen ensures that users will see all course text and downloadable links. Have a pro-tip, question, or discussion topic that you want to share anonymously? Let Joe Huber or the Community team at Ascender…
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Plan to Make the Plan - Ascender Resources
Attached is our resource from the Plan to Make the Plan webinar. This document links to an Excel file that you can download and offers tips on how to use it. Please let us know if you have any questions about how to set this up! Links to related recordings: Link to the Ascender Insights webinar with John Kaplan. Link to…
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January 26, 2024 - Ascender Live - Plan to Make the Plan w/ Jim "Pouli" Pouliopoulos [Event Recap]
Pouli joined us last Friday to talk about "The Plan to Make the Plan" and shared why it's so important to understand your own motivation, how to leverage other tools to help with planning, and answered some questions during this Ascender Live Workshop. Check out the discussion and resources we covered in the replay below:…
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January 19, 2024 - Ascender Insights Plan to Make the Plan w/ John Kaplan [Event Recap]
John Kaplan joined us to talk about the Plan to Make the Plan, including how you can take the reigns of your success and own your career. Some of the biggest themes from John's talk are about the Franchise Mentality, Account Planning, and your Operating Rhythm. By being realistic and honest about what lies ahead, you're…
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Generative AI Prompts - Ascender Resources
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a category of AI techniques and models that are designed to generate new content, such as images, text, music, or even entire virtual environments, based on patterns and examples learned from existing data. You can use tools like this to help create things like emails, do…
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December 8, 2023 - Ascender Teams Workshop 4 ways to use Gen AI to maximize your time [Event Recap]
Matt Payne from Sales Boost Consulting joined Ascender to discuss Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), the impact it's having on sales, and how you can leverage it in your day-to-day. We covered things like writing better prompts, specific details to add, how you can layer AI into the strategic parts of your roles, and…
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December 1, 2023 Ascender Live Year-End Reflection: Paving the Way for 2024 Success (Event Recap
Thank you @Frankie Vignone , @Antonella O'Day and @Rachel Clapp Miller for hosting a fantastic session! We spent the first half discussing how we can look back at our wins and losses with a MEDDICC lens, recognize patterns and set ourselves up for success next year. Frankie and Antonella had some great ideas for investing…
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November 17, 2023 Ascender Live - How to plan for and execute a great Discovery call (Event Recap)
@Pouli Pouliopoulos hosted a fantastic conversation last Friday on digging deeper with discovery. We covered mindset, preparation, discovery flow and follow-up.
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November 10, 2023 - Ascender Insights - The Art of Re-engaging (Event Recap)
Thanks to @Hannah Clift and @Diana Sheley for hosting last Friday's session on re-engaging with customers and prospects. They covered this from a few different angles including: 1. How to respond when a prospect leaves you in the dark 2. Ways to engage when you inherit accounts 3. What happens when leadership or champions…
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November 3, 2023 - Ascender Insights - The End-of-Year Crunch [Event Recap]
Thank you to @James Reach and @Diana Sheley for hosting our Ascender Insights session on Friday! Great perspective on leveraging MEDDICC to set sellers up for success for the end of the year. Have a listen to the recording if you weren't able to attend live.
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October 20, 2023 - Ascender LIVE - Executing with MEDDICC [Event Recap]
@Antonella O'Day led an awesome session on MEDDICC tips and traps today. Take a listen as there is great advice and great questions from the participants. Shout out to @David Wood and @David Chimenti who jumped in!
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October 13, 2023 - Ascender Teams Workshop - Pilots, POVs and POCs [Event Recap]
@Patrick McLoughlin hosted a fantastic conversation on POCs, POVs, and Pilots. And of course, he tied it all back to MEDDICC!
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October 6, 2023 - Ascender Insights - The Collective Yes [Event Recap]
Stephanie Feraday, CEO of aPriori, and @Brian Walsh from FM were live on Oct 6th and discussed "The Collective Yes". The shared insights on trends they have observed including: - Individuals Matter - How you can best coach your Champions - Multi-threading - The Buying Committee Let us know in the comments what your…
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September 15, 2023 - Ascender Live - Prospecting Tips & Tools [Event Recap]
Here's the recap and recording of this incredible conversation with you all and @Tim Caito around prospecting tips and the tools we use for this process. We covered an incredible amount, including the idea that you should never let the tools dictate how you prospect, how you can work to find ways to connect with the people…
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September 8, 2023 - Ascender Teams Workshop - Uncovering Business-level Problems [Event Recap]
@Patrick McLoughlin led this incredible session on coaching reps up on business-level pains, how to speak the same "language" as the customer, how to actually show empathy, and more in this edition of our Ascender Teams Workshop.
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August 18, 2023 - Ascender Live - The Negotiator's Mindset (Execution) [Event Recap]
@Tim Caito joined us for another conversation around "The Negotiator's Mindset", this time focusing more on the individual contributor and how you can develop around this crucial skill. Tim covered things like anchors, how to ask questions to get people off of "just price", and the importance of focusing on negotiating…
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August 11, 2023 - Ascender Teams Workshop - The Negotiator's Mindset (Guidance) [Event Recap]
@Tim Caito joined us to chat through "The Negotiator's Mindset" from the Team's perspective. He covered things like how teams can change their approach to thinking about negotiations, what to negotiate for, and how we can focus on our relationships through the process. The folks on the call also brought some incredible…
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August 4, 2023 - Ascender Insights - Selling to the COO [Event Recap]
Daria Morano and @Diana Sheley were live on August 4th and talked all about "Selling to the Chief Operating Officer". Daria is the COO at Solving IT and had some amazing tips! Some of the highlights included Daria sharing how you can hold her attention, research what role the COO has (since it can be quite different, org…
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Ascender Resources: Role Play Scenario & Feedback Template
During our Ascender Teams session on "Building an Effective Role Play Session", a question came up from @Brandt Hoffman about developing a resource that could be used as a template to help build more effective role play scenarios for both managers and sales talent. This resource will help you do exactly that. You'll be…
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Ascender Resources - Customer-Facing Quarterly Business Review
Based on an earlier Ascender conversation around Customer-Facing QBRs, we've build this template for you to leverage. Please let us know if you'd like to see additions or amendments to the template and we'll work to improve this over time.