Todd Caponi is the author of the award-winning best-seller, The Transparency Sale, and the new award-winning book, The Transparent Sales Leader.
Todd is a multi-time C-Level sales leader, a behavioral science and sales history nerd, and has guided two companies to successful exits.
He now speaks and teaches revenue organizations and their leaders on leveraging transparency and decision science to maximize their revenue capacity as Principal of Sales Melon LLC.
SHOW SUMMARY
Todd Caponi joins the Selling from the Heart podcast to discuss the importance of transparency in sales and leadership. He emphasizes that sales is a service profession and that the role of sales professionals is to help customers achieve optimal outcomes. Todd shares insights from sales history, highlighting the similarities between the current economic climate and that of the early 1900s. He also introduces his framework for building revenue capacity, which focuses on transparency and decision science. Todd explains the concept of intrinsic motivation and the six core elements that drive human beings. He encourages leaders to provide praise and recognition to their teams to inspire and influence them. The episode concludes with a discussion on the value of transparency in building trust and credibility in sales.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Sales is a service profession, and the role of sales professionals is to help customers achieve optimal outcomes.
The current economic climate mirrors that of the early 1900s, and history can provide valuable insights for navigating challenging times.
Transparency is crucial in sales and leadership, as it helps teams predict and understand what is expected of them.
Intrinsic motivation is driven by predictability, recognition, aim, independence, security, and equitability.
Providing praise and recognition to teams inspires and influences them to achieve their best work.
QUOTES
"True salesmanship is the science of service."
"We are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think."
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