Leadership Norman

Get out of the firefighting business and into the business of developing the people who develop your profits. Successful salespeople rightfully become sales managers because of superior sales records. Yet too often these sales stars get stuck doing their old sales job while also trying to juggle their manager role, and too often companies neglect to train their sales managers how to excel as managers. That's the "sales management trap", and it's exactly what The Accidental Sales Manager addresses and solves.

Managing a sales team is one of the most important and challenging positions in a company, and it requires a unique set of skills. Unfortunately, many sales managers spend much of their day putting out fires, and moving from problem to problem. Their days consist of an overwhelming number of activities, including responding to urgent requests from their bosses, resolving customer issues and complaints, and dealing with disgruntled employees.

Organizations have made public commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, yet their leaders rarely have the skills to lead inclusively. Leadership consultant and former Silicon Valley executive Minette Norman is committed to changing that by sharing some of the most important things she’s discovered over the decades she spent in the corporate world.

Do you want to learn how to successfully manage people? Are you interested in maximizing the resources of your staff? Would you like to learn proven philosophies and techniques of Human Resource management to achieve this? Managing People introduces a philosophy and strategy of human resource management called People Dynamics Management. With People Dynamics Management, the foundation of HR is based on valuing people as your best resource.

Organizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight. Denning puts forward a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation.

We are living in an interesting era. We evolve and the old paradigms of good leadership are failing us. It is not about leading or following anymore. It is about learning how to lead yourself. I am sending my energy out to the conscious warriors, who are making this world a better place. You can listen to the whole thing, listen to a random moment, or just absorb by osmosis.