5 Steps Leaders Should Take in Times of Uncertainty
December 2, 2022
In today’s economic climate, sales leaders face a unique set of challenges, and the landscape continues to change rapidly. With market…
Supply and Demand: Is Transparency the Cure?
March 17, 2022
Some Key Questions Suppliers Need to Ask Themselves in 2022 It seems impossible, now that we’re in 2022, to have any conversation about business…
What’s Your Opening Move?
January 14, 2022
A client of ours recently told us he has a chessboard in his office because there were so many parallels to sales. I paused, but it didn’t take me…
Commercial Teaching: More Than Just An Early-Stage Strategy
May 25, 2021
In our most recent Winning the Challenger Sales Webinar, we went deep on "Discovery" calls and shared some tips for how to leverage "high-gain"…
How Do Challengers Negotiate?
March 23, 2021
“The first step is the hardest”. It’s what we say to encourage each other to get going. The same is true in sales. Shifting the customer’s initial…
Challenger Skills Part 3: Which Skills Are Most Important in 2021?
February 23, 2021
This post concludes a series we began a few weeks ago: Our first post looked at the distribution of sellers by profile in 2020, using the same…
Challenger Skills Part 2: What has changed in 2020?
February 16, 2021
Last week, I shared a snapshot of our ongoing Challenger assessment data and how Challengers in 2020, moving into 2021, are disproportionately more…
Challenger Skills Part 1: Are Challengers still high performers?
February 9, 2021
2020, it seems safe to say, will be remembered as a year when events conspired to accelerate the digitization of everything. Speaking personally,…
What’s Your Plan for “The Close”?
December 4, 2020
Challenger is currently conducting a wide-scale study on the current state of negotiations in B2B selling - "Commercial Negotiation" – as we’re…
Challenger Selling in a Virtual (Pandemic) Environment
October 20, 2020
For months now the most frequent request Challenger has received is for resources to help sell in a virtual environment. It’s been six months and…
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