{"id":1060,"date":"2007-07-10T08:44:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T13:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/leadership-development\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T08:44:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T13:44:59","slug":"leadership-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/leadership-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek.com offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/careers\/content\/jul2007\/ca2007076_265122.htm?campaign_id=rss_null\" target=\"_blank\">a comprehensive article<\/a> regarding executive development especially in regards to leadership.&nbsp; Sales executives\/managers are underserved in this area.&nbsp; The author provides a handful of suggestions for development engagement, but I want to highlight two of them:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u20ac\u00a2 Targeted assessment and development planning as part of succession planning or career path planning;<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac\u00a2 Peer networking roundtables.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Those two topics are right in our wheelhouse.&nbsp; We provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Management.html\" target=\"_blank\">sales executive assessments<\/a> today that help managers understand their natural strengths and potential blind spots.&nbsp; The reports are important in providing the basis for the sales manager to properly onramp a new salesperson and to retain them over time.<\/p>\n<p>To the second bullet &#8211; peer networking roundtables &#8211; we will be launching a Twin Cities&#8217; based group this fall as our first foray into building a sales manager network.&nbsp; The group will be headed by Mike Cardinal from our company and will cover numerous sales management topics.&nbsp; Look for more information on the sales manager roundtable later this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek.com offers a comprehensive article regarding executive development especially in regards to leadership.&nbsp; Sales executives\/managers are underserved in this area.&nbsp; The author provides a handful of suggestions for development engagement, but I want to highlight two of them: \u20ac\u00a2 Targeted assessment and development planning as part of succession planning or career path planning; \u20ac\u00a2 Peer networking roundtables. Those two topics are right in our wheelhouse.&nbsp; We provide sales executive assessments today that help managers understand their natural strengths and potential blind spots.&nbsp; The reports are important in providing the basis for the sales manager to properly onramp a new salesperson and to retain them over time. To the second bullet&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/leadership-development\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-h6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->