Tom Peters’ 2018 book The Excellence Dividend talks about how critical skills and capability development is for any department in your organization. In fact, he states that training is the number one profitability strategy for your company.

Tom Peters’ 2018 book The Excellence Dividend talks about how critical skills and capability development is for any department in your organization. In fact, he states that training is the number one profitability strategy for your company.
I recently read an excellent book called The Excellence Dividend by Tom Peters—an ex-McKinsey consultant whose consulting practice now focuses on customer experience and customer excellence. In his book, Peters talks about the importance of cross-functional alignment. And I whole-heartedly agree!
You can argue that all investment funds are difficult to acquire from the CFO – but purchasing services like sales training to improve performance and consulting companies is a tough sell internally. I get it. Remember the CFO is also not a seller, and doesn’t always understand that sales skills are sharpened like a knife, not turned on/off like a blender.
You have a teammate or team internally that has convinced you that they can build a Digital Sales Certification. Perhaps they have even alluded to being capable of scaling the program nationally or globally.
It’s beginning – the term “social selling” (or “digital selling”) is slowly being integrated into what it will naturally become… “Selling”.