Driving Sales Team Success Helping Sellers Harness the Chaos with Agility Selling

Thursday, July 21, 2011 - by Tim Ohai, Brian Lambert

Join Tim Ohai and Brian Lambert, Ph.D. as they discuss their newly published book Sales Chaos. Engage them to discuss the emerging complexity facing today’s seller and you’ll gain new insight into the chaos sellers face while working with clients. Using the concepts of Agility Selling from the book, Brian and Tim will share their ideas on how your sales training initiatives can become more relevant, timely, and impactful to sellers in the field.

Communities of Practice:   Sales Enablement

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Authored By

  • Tim Ohai
    Tim Ohai

    Tim Ohai is the founder and president of Growth & Associates, a consulting group that focuses on solving sales and marketing problems. With well over a decade's worth of experience in developing sales team performance, he consistently helps Fortune 500 companies design and implement selling solutions internationally, build sales systems that increase revenue and customer loyalty, and create genuine coaching cultures. He is often asked to consult larger, more complex issues, especially around the topics of redesigning sales organizations and leading organizational change.

    As a researcher, author, and recognized thought leader in modern selling, Tim's expertise and enthusiasm have taken him to Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East as both consultant and keynote speaker. His most recent book, Sales Chaos: Using Agility Selling to Think and Sell Differently, is on sale now.

  • Brian Lambert
    Brian Lambert
    Officially recognized by Sales & Marketing Management Magazine as one of the most influential people in professional selling, Brian Lambert is your guide to the 10 Steps to Successful Sales (ASTD, 2009). This book gives you the benefit of his extensive doctoral research, experience training thousands of salespeople internationally, and interviews with hundreds of sales professionals and managers.

    With more than 15 years of work in sales, sales management, and sales training, Lambert is an internationally recognized expert on transforming sales team systems, processes, and people through learning. He has personally trained more than 15,000 salespeople and sales managers from across the globe, and he has also written two other books on professional selling, including World-Class Selling: New Sales Competencies (ASTD, 2009) with Tim Ohai and Eric Kerkhoff.

    Currently Lambert is the director of sales training drivers for ASTD and leads the sales professionwide global competency modeling effort and research agenda to define what world-class sales people and sales managers need to know and do to be successful. He holds an MS in human resource and information resource management from Central Michigan and a PhD in management from Capella University.