Comments on: It’s Time to Sharpen Your Tech Skills In Sales http://salesmarks.com/archives/time-to-sharpen-your-tech-skills/ Resources for Sales and Small Business Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:05:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark Copeman http://salesmarks.com/archives/time-to-sharpen-your-tech-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-921 Mark Copeman Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:47:37 +0000 http://www.salesteamtools.com/?p=704#comment-921 Couldn't agree with you more - this digital divide is growing by the day as more and more (normally free) time-saving applications and sites become available. In the research I've done to develop our new video-based training to get people moving again, more and more knowledgeworkers have simply shut up shop when it comes to finding out about new ways of doing things. When they were first shown how to use Excel '95 - that's where their learning has traditionally stopped due to the pressures of work. If they can scrape by with the basics - that'll do them. What we've found is by teaching some of those basic productivity and IT skills, you can hear the "aha's" going on around the office and people get enthused about being able to save time and work smarter. Start people on a path and they will follow... Couldn’t agree with you more – this digital divide is growing by the day as more and more (normally free) time-saving applications and sites become available.

In the research I’ve done to develop our new video-based training to get people moving again, more and more knowledgeworkers have simply shut up shop when it comes to finding out about new ways of doing things. When they were first shown how to use Excel ’95 – that’s where their learning has traditionally stopped due to the pressures of work. If they can scrape by with the basics – that’ll do them.

What we’ve found is by teaching some of those basic productivity and IT skills, you can hear the “aha’s” going on around the office and people get enthused about being able to save time and work smarter.

Start people on a path and they will follow…

]]> By: Craig Klein http://salesmarks.com/archives/time-to-sharpen-your-tech-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-922 Craig Klein Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:14:57 +0000 http://www.salesteamtools.com/?p=704#comment-922 That's a good list! Should being able to do some basic follow up management and simple lookups in your contact management system be a requirement too? That’s a good list!

Should being able to do some basic follow up management and simple lookups in your contact management system be a requirement too?

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