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Sales [UN]Training

by Kelly Riggs & Pod About It Productions

Your weekly sales strategy guide that will rewire your sales brain to bust bad habits and crush your number. The way that companies train salespeople is broken. Host Kelly Riggs discusses what ACTUALLY works in sales with leading experts in our industry. Forget what you think you know about sales. It's time to train hard and play to win. Kelly Riggs is an author, speaker, and business consultant for executives and companies throughout the United States and Canada. Widely recognized as a powerful speaker and performance coach in the areas of sales, management leadership, and strategic planning, Kelly is a former sales executive, a two-time national Salesperson-of-the-Year, a business owner, and a member of the Forbes' Coaches Council since 2019. He has written two books: 1-on-1 Management: What Every Great Manager Knows That You Don't and Quit Whining and Start SELLING! A Step-by-Step Guide to a Hall of Fame Career in Sales. His third book is the award-winning Counter Mentor Leadership: How to Unlock the Potential of the 4-Generation Workplace, co-written with his Millennial son, Robby Riggs. It was selected as the 2019 Gold Medal winner in the leadership category by Axiom Business Books Awards. Note: No trophies were awarded during the writing of this book. For more information, visit www.BizLockerRoom.com.

Latest episodes

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5 Power Moves: Jeff Bajorek Interviews Kelly Riggs

What does it take to become a transformational sales leader? In this episode of Sales [UN]Training, Kelly Riggs turns the microphone over to Jeff Bajorek for a candid con

Sep 21
35 min

Teaching Sales Leaders to Coach

Host Kelly Riggs explores why 90% of sales managers struggle with coaching and distinguishes actual skills-based coaching from routine deal reviews . The episode breaks d

Sep 14
36 min

BEST OF: 3 Principles of Effective Sales Training

Sales training remains one of the largest investments organizations make, yet sales performance data continues to show disappointing results. Why are so many salespeople

Sep 7
29 min

6 Sales Mistakes Hurting Your Team: STOP Selling Too Soon and START Coaching Better Salespeople

Sales is hard. Salespeople operate in a highly competitive environment, face constant pressure to perform, navigate different customers and opportunities, and deal with r

Aug 29
32 min

What Salespeople Can Learn from Attorneys (Good and Bad)

What can sales professionals learn from trial attorneys? Quite a bit—especially when it comes to influence, discovery, trust, and the way customers perceive us. Follow

Aug 24
24 min

Avoid Selling CHAOS! How To Turn "Change" Into Better Sales Performance.

Leading a sales team through change is one of the toughest responsibilities in sales leadership, yet it's a challenge every manager faces. Whether it's a new CRM, revised

Aug 17
27 min

Do You Consider the Impact of Change When You Train Your Salespeople?

Most salespeople spend countless hours learning their products and studying competitors, yet they often overlook the competitor that quietly wins more deals than anyone e

Aug 10
27 min

The Typical Sales Call Disaster: How Sales Training Creates "Ghosting"

Why do customers so often stop responding after what seemed like a great first meeting? According to Kelly Riggs, the answer isn't bad luck—it starts with how most salesp

Aug 3
29 min

AI-Generated Information WON'T Replace Effective Discovery: Unlock Sales Info With THESE Questions

Technology has transformed the sales profession, but has it actually made salespeople better? In this episode of Sales [UN]Training, Kelly Riggs explains why the biggest

Jul 27
23 min

Is the Way You Do Sales Training a Complete Waste of Time and Money?

Why do organizations invest billions of dollars in sales training every year while win rates and quota attainment continue to disappoint? In this episode of Sales [UN]Tra

Jul 20
25 min

Which Numbers Matter? The Formula That Predicts Sales Success and Improves Team Performance

Sales managers love dashboards, reports, and KPIs—but are they measuring the numbers that actually improve performance? Follow the audio podcast and watch OR listen whe

Jul 12
28 min

Psychological Sales Killers -- Interview with Matt Sucha

Why do so many qualified prospects still choose not to buy—even after hearing a compelling presentation and a strong ROI story? Follow the audio podcast and watch OR li

Jul 6
28 min

Value Isn't Value Until the Customer Says So

What does "adding value" actually mean? In this episode of Sales [UN]Training, Kelly Riggs challenges one of the most overused phrases in sales and explains why many sa

Jun 29
24 min

Three Principles of Effective Sales Training

Sales training remains one of the largest investments organizations make, yet sales performance data continues to show disappointing results. Why are so many salespeople

Jun 22
29 min

Training for the Competitors You Don't See

Salespeople often assume they're losing deals to competing vendors, but what if the biggest threats to winning business aren't competitors at all? Follow the audio podc

Jun 15
24 min

Are You Focused on the Wrong Things? How focusing on metrics and activities leads to bad conclusions AND takes the fun out of selling.

Many sales leaders spend countless hours tracking calls, proposals, meetings, pipeline movement, and CRM activity. But what if that focus is actually limiting sales perfo

Jun 8
19 min

Follow-up Failure Kills Future Opportunities

 Winning the sale is only the beginning. What happens after the customer says "yes" often determines whether you earn repeat business, referrals, and long-term loyalty—or

Jun 1
24 min

What Gives Salespeople Away Every Time

Are your people there to sell a product...or are they there to help a customer? Ever wonder if your sales reps are completely killing deals in the first five minutes of a

May 18
27 min

BEST OF: FIX Your Sales Presentations: How Better Training Creates WINNING Solution Conversations

Sales presentations don't fail by accident—they fail by design. In this episode of Sales [UN]Training, Kelly Riggs breaks down why most solution presentations sound the s

May 11
27 min

Good Ideas (Based on Bad Assumptions) Are Crippling Sales Leadership

In this episode of Sales [UN]Training, Kelly Riggs challenges one of the most common—and costly—habits in sales leadership: making assumptions. From declining win rates t

May 4
24 min

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