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B2B revenue leaders are challenged with the conundrum of delivering crucial sales training to their team: Training both amplifies their reps’ competencies and yet draws precious time away from customer-facing activities. Often delivered at an inopportune time, leveraging unpopular modalities, and lacking adult learning best practices, sales training remains ineffective unless delivered as part of a comprehensive and permanent sales talent lifecycle management strategy. In this webinar, we highlight the “what, when, how, and who” behind optimal everboarding for your quota-bearing individual contributors.Key takeaways: Learn the best (and worst) learning modalities for your B2B sales reps.Understand how to time learning delivery so it's sticky.Discover how to engage your first-line sales managers to amplify ongoing sales learning and development.Target audience level: intermediate

Peter Ostrow

 

This webinar was originally scheduled for June 12th, 2025.In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses must adapt to ever-evolving technological demands. Join us for an insightful webinar where we delve into the importance of business-optimized networks and how they can transform your organization's efficiency and productivity.Key takeaways: Understand business-optimized networks — what they are and why they matter.Discover benefits of optimization — enhanced performance, security, and scalability.Explore real-world applications — case studies and success stories.Learn implementation strategies — practical steps to optimize your network.Target audience level: beginner and intermediate

Andre Kindness

 

Every B2B sales rep wants professional development, but no one wants to take time from selling to participate in learning. For years, both HR and sales leaders defaulted to traditional learning management systems to provide sales training for reps, only to see invitations ignored and attendance embarrassingly low.In this webinar, learn how HR-owned LMS tools differ from revenue enablement platforms and how the latter better suit real-time training delivery to improve your sellers' competencies most effectively.Key takeaways: Learn how to reverse-engineer your sales training technology environment to suit learner needs.Discover what high-performing B2B sales organizations do to optimize learning participation and adoption.Identify which best practices in adult learning are best supported by properly integrated technologies.Target audience level: intermediate

Peter Ostrow

 

Today’s public sector environment changes daily. Tech leaders in government groups are pushed to maximize the budget they have. The most logical place to start? Portfolio rationalization. Techniques such as project prioritization, resource allocation, and redundancy elimination are essential to streamline operations and enhance overall efficiency. Although these steps will help drive down cost — the goal is creating a more adaptive platform that is responsive to changing needs and capable of integrating advanced technologies, including AI. This AI-ready framework enables agencies to leverage data-driven insights for better decision-making, predictive analytics for future planning, and automation to reduce manual workloads, ultimately driving innovation and delivering superior outcomes for their constituents.Key takeaways: Learn how to assess and rank projects based on strategic importance and resource availability to ensure optimal portfolio composition.Discover techniques to streamline operations by removing overlapping or unnecessary initiatives, thereby improving efficiency.Gain insights into effective resource management strategies that enhance operational effectiveness and drive better outcomes for government agencies.Target audience level: beginner and intermediate

Linda Ivy-Rosser

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Devin Dickerson

 

B2B buyers have always been changing and adapting to evolving markets, technologies, and economic turmoil. Are sellers equally tuned in to the same elements? This webinar looks at these elements from the perspective of both buyers and sellers.Key takeaways: Learn how to identify and react to alarming negative sentiment expressed by B2B buyers, even after successfully making a purchase.Learn how to stop signaling that your sales team members are "coin-operated" with coach-like management techniques.Discover how to leverage generative AI capabilities for revenue enablement — that you're probably already paying for.Target audience level: intermediate

Peter Ostrow

 

CRM is a critical piece of technology infrastructure that underpins a firm’s ability to deliver next-generation financial services. It connects organizational silos to drive customer and business value. CRMs are integrating AI and adding intelligent agents to boost productivity and deliver personalized customer experiences at scale. This makes CRM an indispensable tool for financial services firms aiming to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and drive growth.Despite the benefits, we often hear that financial services firms struggle to justify the investment in CRM modernization, and firms that have done so say that they’re struggling to extract value. This makes it more important than ever to choose the right vendor. But the financial services CRM market is bifurcating, making vendor choice even harder.Key takeaways: Understand the financial services CRM market, key vendors, and common financial services use cases.Learn how AI (predictive, generative, and agentic) is transforming CRM and what it means for financial services firms.Uncover the mistakes that are leading to the underutilization of CRM by financial services firms.Identify the key considerations that should inform financial services firms’ CRM purchasing decision.Target audience level: intermediate and advanced

Alyson Clarke