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Process Improvement and the Art of Sales

When: Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Doug Timmel, the College Leader for the Sell process at Air Products University, has developed a new approach to aligning skills, behaviors and L&D needs within a single standardized global sales process. The approach ensures that L&D is part of the overall sales process improvement effort.

This webinar will explain how the rigorous application of process improvement methods, so successful in reducing costs in transactional processes such as supply chains, can be applied to the less structured processes, like sales, that many believe are more art than science. Timmel will address how Air Products enabled a single sales process across ten different sales forces and multiple sales channels by applying process design principles, using a common IT platform to enable the process, and establishing enterprise level metrics. It will also address how this new approach can apply to other business practices, and the role that is played by the Air Products University Sales Academy.

Session highlights include:

  • Discovering how a single “Art” type of process can apply to your entire organization
  • Learning how to enable a sales process, and how to use those process steps to define metrics
  • Determining how process metrics can be selected and used to modify behavior and drive improved corporate performance
  • Learning how the Air Products University Sales Academy fits into the "Sell Process"

Presenters:

Douglas Timmel:
Douglas has over 30 years of experience in sales and marketing for Fortune 150 companies. In his current role as Global Sales Process Manager at Air Products, he leads the development of Sales Processes at Air Products, is the College Leader for the Air Products University Sales Academy, and is also the Project Lead for an enterprise wide CRM implementation. He has authored numerous articles on e-commerce, and is part of a team recently recognized by an APQC study on emerging best practices in business process management. Doug has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from St. Mary’s College of California.

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