Why Listening is the Most Valuable Sales Skill - Podcast from Alan Stein Jr.

For this episode of Asher Sales Sense Podcast, Alan Stein Jr., the sales coach will reveal the performance secrets of world-class athletes and how they can inspire and empower you and your team to take immediate action and improve mindset, habits, and productivity.

Alan has worked as a performance coach with the highest-performing basketball players on the planet, including NBA superstars Kevin Durant of the Golden State Warriors and Victor Oladipo of the Indiana Pacers.

He understands the principles of top performance, mental toughness, and consistent achievement and that whether on or off the court, the fundamentals of performance and achievement are identical. Listen in and learn how you can lead your sales team to victory.

In this episode, Alan discusses the importance of listening as a skill for the sales leader and salesperson. This nine minute extract is taken from an earlier episode Improving Sales Leadership Performance with World Class Athlete Mindsets.  In this extract Alan and John Asher talk about:

• The traits of an active listener
• It’s not about you
• What a list-back is
• How listening builds trust
• Why all traits of an elite effective leader are the same traits of an elite and effect salesperson
• Why most people who aren’t good as listeners don’t know they aren’t good as listners

About our guest, Alan Stein, Jr.

Alan Stein, Jr. is a performance coach, consultant, speaker, and author of the recently published book, Raise Your Game: High-Performance Secrets from the Best of the Best. High achievers are at the top of their game because of the discipline they have during the unseen hours. They have made a commitment to establish, tweak, and repeat positive habits in everything they do. RAISE YOUR GAME examines the top leaders in sports and business and proves that success is a result of the little things we do all the time.

After 15 years working as a performance coach with the highest-performing basketball players on the planet, such as NBA superstars Kevin Durant of the Golden State Warriors and Victor Oladipo of the Indiana Pacers, Alan understands the principles of top performance, mental toughness, and consistent achievement. Whether on or off the court, individual or collective development, the fundamentals of performance and achievement are identical. Alan teaches people and businesses how to use the same mindsets and habits as world-class athletes to achieve goals by using sports-proven strategies of closing the gap between what they know they should do and what they are actually doing.

“For an organization to thrive, every member of the team needs to make the conscious choice to be an influential leader and selfless teammate. I help businesses get clarity on their identity, standards, and culture with a focus on leveling-up productivity, shifting mindsets and improving team cohesion. I help key decision makers, CEOs and managers develop authentic leadership skills that will enable them to radically drive performance metrics within their organizations.”

Alan delivers high-energy keynotes and interactive workshops to improve performance, cohesion, and accountability. He inspires and empowers everyone he works with to take immediate action and improve mindset, habits, and productivity.

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Asher Sales Sense is hosted by John Asher and Kyla O’Connell of ASHER Strategies which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel.  ASHER Strategies is the sponsor of ASHER Sales Sense.