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Driving Sales Beyond follows a logical and integrated, four-step sequence of learning and skill building. Steps 1 and 2 are centered on thinking, and Steps 3 and 4 on doing.


Skill-Building Component

Distributor Challenge

Driving Sales Beyond Components

"Create a training system to instill the mindsets, competencies and skills necessary to develop the type of salesperson your company wants."
-- NAWD

The generic nature of off-the-shelf training is ineffective and inefficient. Training needs to involve your products, your industry, and your people.

Fourth Generation capabilities and due diligence enable customization of proven processes, systems and tools not only to the unique needs of wholesale distribution, but to the needs of your industry, company, sales force, and management.

Required knowledge is achieved through two primary means: (1) live events, and (2) online lesson modules.


"They (distributors and their sales teams) never learn the best practices of the best performers."
-- NAWD

Knowledge gained through training must be turned into on-the-job application.

Driving Sales Beyond
allows opportunity for application of knowledge to the job and demonstration of newly acquired skills to oneself and management through:
  • Monthly Challenges
  • Peers Coaching Peers
  • Beveridge interaction with entire team through online forum/discussion groups.
  • A Best Practices Intellectual Asset Library that includes searchable databases of proven tools and techniques useful in coaching that include proposals, needs analyses, value-added solutions and technical applications.


"Inject accountability through sales management practices. The days when a salesperson could be encouraged to 'run his own business' are long one. Management must establish an expectation of accountability and a system to insure ongoing implementation."
-- NAWD

Commitment from the management is essential to insure team focus and direction. Only managers who understand the importance of integrated training will convey that importance to their people.

Driving Sales Beyond considers management to be key players in the overall success of the program, and therefore has incorporated into it:
  • "State of Territory" accountability sessions integrated into the second and third live events.
  • Beveridge "coaches the coach" through monthly interaction with sales management.
  • Beveridge planned value evaluation with executive management, allows the review of program progress three times a year.


"Few distributors have the sophisticated human resources development processes to actually measure and improve employee productivity."
-- NAWD

Improved sales depend on improved employee productivity, yet distributors are not equipped to track training results.

The Driving Sales Beyond engineered process guarantees cumulative learning over a 12-month period with measured improvements in performance and results. It delivers sophisticated and systemized evaluations of sales knowledge, application, execution and results.



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