“Disparaging what one cannot obtain, as in the losers’ scorn for the award, is pure Sour Grapes.” This quote alludes to the Greek writer Aesop’s famous fable about a fox that cannot reach some grapes on a high vine and announces that they are sour. By nature, sellers are competitive

In the last post, I started down the road of what makes a well-rounded sales pro. First and foremost, I think Super Sellers are self-starters who continue to invest in their own success with a continuous love for learning. Buying has evolved at warp speed over the last decade so

Super successful sellers have some similar key characteristics: self-starting, hard-working, disciplined—there are core traits and outliers that show up on personality tests. However, more telling to me than any of those core traits is the investment someone makes in their own career and skills. Well-rounded people have interests in many

Sometimes, when I’m talking with salespeople, something comes out of my mouth and I think, “Damn! I wish I’d recorded that. That was a really great sound bite!” It happens A LOT. Last week, I actually stopped to write down one of those verbal gems while discussing time and productivity

What’s your focus for improved sales results this year? Cleaning up my office this week and the biggest stack of papers on my desk is my “session notes” pile. It’s the colorful printouts of PowerPoint decks and session worksheets that are scribbled on in blue, purple, hot pink, and aqua

Everyone hates to fail. We don’t want to admit to failure. I despise it. Even though we’re familiar with sayings that tell us how much we learn from failure, how it makes us stronger . . . and all those other rah-rah messages. Sure, we learn what we SHOULD have

Not to name drop but I have some extremely smart friends and colleagues that have written and are writing amazing sales books. I’ve reviewed a lot of them here and usually bring a few with me when I go to train a sales team. Many of my clients are devout

Putting together a speech for an upcoming keynote and looking for insights about growth and learning, I ran across a profoundly provoking quote and the work of Joe Dispenza that describes WHY it’s so hard to learn as an adult: Psychologists tell us that by the time we’re in our

Most of it, anyway, is actually terrible. I write this knowing that it could be confusing since many of you would consider part of what we do at Sauce Agency as “Sales Training.” Hear me out. When I look back at my years as an Account Executive in multiple organizations,

A while back I was in Washington DC giving a spectacular talk on Personality as a Seller’s Competitive Advantage. Along with my good friend Dianna Geairn, I was invited to speak to the Institute for Excellence in Sales (IES) membership audience and as a mutually beneficial perk, the day before