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Our core values should capture and reflect our inherent beliefs. They should influence behavior, inspire action, engage emotions, and impact decision-making. Ideally, they’re also universally true, intrinsic human motivators. And successful human-centered communication is established in BLISS with respect to those very same core values.

To connect with both your employees and customers, you have to communicate in a way that speaks to what they value most. Create a narrative that provides value (Buy-in), imparts knowledge (Learning), fits their world (Integration), approaches them across channels (Synthesis), and offers reward in taking action (Support).

Today’s guest is Lauren Bailey, Founder and President of both Factor 8 and #GirlsClub. The former is a sales training and sales management training firm and the latter is a program to increase female representation in sales leadership. Through these efforts, Lauren and her team shape the future of sales by training sales reps and managers.

To deliver human-centered communication, she’s incorporating video in a variety of ways. When someone like Lauren, whose job is to coach others, explains the power of video, you sit up and take note.

In addition to her current roles, Lauren has served as the Global Director of Training at SAP. She’s also worked for inside sales centers serving IBM, Sony, HP, Panasonic, and more.

Lauren’s on a mission to help people feel more confident and successful at work. She discusses how the broken rung, confidence gap, and forgetting curve connect to her training approach. Lauren also walks us through the BLISS acronym and explains how using video can help us speak the language of others. Connecting with people face to face at their core and using their language encourages them to care about what we’re saying — because it fits their world.

Lauren is part of a special series we’re doing this summer here on The Customer Experience Podcast. She’s one of 11 experts that Steve Pacinelli and I interviewed in-depth in the process of writing our Wall Street Journal bestselling second book, Human-Centered Communication: A Business Case Against Digital Pollution (Fast Company Press, October 2021).

Throughout this series, we’re back in conversation with each of these experts in a way that’s complementary to — rather than redundant to — their insights featured in the book.

In this episode, Lauren shares with us:

• Why there are still relatively few women in sales leadership roles
• How to apply Bloom’s Taxonomy in training
• What BLISS has to do with video communication
• How to solve some problems with today’s BDR role
• Why feeling-focused intent yields better results than outcome-focused intent

A Blissful Approach to Training Customers and Employees

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Listen to “149. A Blissful Approach to Training Customers and Employees w/ Lauren Bailey” on Spreaker.

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