{"id":11638,"date":"2020-01-21T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csuiteold.c-suitenetwork.com\/advisors\/?p=11638"},"modified":"2020-02-11T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T21:11:06","slug":"tips-for-a-great-sales-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csuiteold.c-suitenetwork.com\/advisors\/tips-for-a-great-sales-kick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for a great Sales Kick Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11708 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/csuiteold.c-suitenetwork.com\/advisors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/unsplash-balloon-launch-1500px-1-800x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csuiteold.c-suitenetwork.com\/advisors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/unsplash-balloon-launch-1500px-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https:\/\/csuiteold.c-suitenetwork.com\/advisors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/unsplash-balloon-launch-1500px-1-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csuiteold.c-suitenetwork.com\/advisors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/unsplash-balloon-launch-1500px-1-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csuiteold.c-suitenetwork.com\/advisors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/unsplash-balloon-launch-1500px-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every company we know of\u00a0organizes some sort of activity to drive growth, celebrate success and, for the most part, you think that&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s a status symbol. You take over Vegas or Beijing to show the world how successful you were last year and will be this year, but you find too backward-looking and self-congratulatory. It doesn\u2019t set up the future.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s for face to face relationship building that doesn\u2019t happen in the field, but you find an open bar where people just spend time with known entities, or you find that there is forced networking with people who may not be relevant.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a time to rally the troops around a new strategy, but the focused strategy presentation doesn\u2019t connect the what and the how.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a once a year platform for bi-directional knowledge transfer, but you find it passive and a one way dialogue that doesn\u2019t take advantage of time face to face.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a way to reward your people, build the team culture and show you\u2019re invested, but it is mandatory fun.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a time to help your people develop skills, but assuming you can overhaul an entire sales force in a kickoff, doing training the last day seems like the usual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advantageperformance.com\/sales-kick-off-time\/?partner_source=carlos-vargas\">Here<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>are some tips to maximize results.<\/p>\n<p>Advantage\u00a0helps leading sales organizations drive results through their annual sales conferences by focusing<br \/>\nboth on our deep skill building expertise and creating interactivity throughout the rest of the event. We\u2019d love to help you surface what your true goals are and find ways for you to achieve them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 ways to create an unforgettable SKO event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1615,1613,1614],"editorial_calendar_month":[],"class_list":["post-11638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","tag-sales-conferences","tag-sales-kickoff","tag-sko"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tips for a great Sales Kick Off - C-Suite Network Advisors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/csuiteold.c-suitenetwork.com\/advisors\/tips-for-a-great-sales-kick-off\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tips for a great Sales Kick Off - 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