5 Behaviors of Effective Banking Sales Leaders
Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 19, 2023
The sales management activities that we are performing today are creating the results we are achieving today.
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Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 19, 2023
The sales management activities that we are performing today are creating the results we are achieving today.
Increase Sales
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
The US banking industry especially within the commercial side has dramatically changed because of compliance and the economy. Today banks appear to be as common as convenience and fuel stores, fast food chains and drug stores. There is a bank of every corner or it seems that way. Communication. Share on Facebook.
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Increase Sales
OCTOBER 2, 2013
Banks are interesting businesses to observe. And yet, management seems oblivious to this simple sales strategy for business growth especially within the market of small business. And yet, management seems oblivious to this simple sales strategy for business growth especially within the market of small business.
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 13, 2023
Learn about the "Coachable" Sales Competency in this blog taken from OMG's recent webinar: The Data Behind Sales Managers of Elite Teams.
No More Cold Calling
JANUARY 16, 2020
Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do.
The Spiff Blog
JANUARY 9, 2024
No matter how confident you are in your sales strategies, it’s crucial to develop contingency plans for if and when something goes wrong. Consider each scenario that might affect your sales team’s ability to hit its targets. What if you experience a period of high sales turnover? What if a valuable sales manager leaves?
Anthony Cole Training
MAY 19, 2023
In this blog article, we discuss the best advice sales managers can give their salespeople, and that is to "keep moving." If you want to increase sales within your organization, you must keep moving throughout the ups and downs, the missed opportunities, the clients who "ghost" you, and more.
Sales and Marketing Management
JANUARY 31, 2019
Author: Matthew Sunshine As a sales manager, you spend serious time and care setting clear expectations; this is how you help your salespeople approach their work with purpose. A sales manager I once knew was in love with a particular metric: the number of calls each seller made in a day. You’ve got so much on your plate?
Anthony Cole Training
MARCH 24, 2023
Prospect : W hy should I do business with you or your bank / company? In part 1, I gave you a sample of how the ‘selling value’ discussions sounds. Here it is again.
Anthony Cole Training
MARCH 17, 2023
From a sales strategy and process perspective, positioning value not only requires a great VALUE PROPOSITION but also supporting Will to Sell, Sales DNA, and Sales Competencies. Using data from just one of our dozens of community bank clients, this is what we found out about top 25% of the team vs the bottom 25% of the team.
Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 28, 2020
The sales management activities that we perform today create the results that we achieve today. What activities are you doing now that are creating your current unsatisfactory results? How can you change them?
Anthony Cole Training
MARCH 12, 2020
In this blog article, we discuss the best advice sales managers can give their salespeople, and that is to "keep moving." If you want to increase sales within your organization, you must keep moving throughout the ups and downs, the missed opportunities, the clients who "ghost" you, and more.
Hubspot Sales
MAY 18, 2021
And it makes sense — tracking and pulling insight from sales calls manually is a frustrating, labor-intensive, often ineffective burden that can eat up sales managers' time without offering much return. Sales managers stand to gain a lot by incorporating this kind of tech into their teams' day-to-day and broader sales efforts.
Zendesk Sell
JULY 16, 2019
To understand this concept more clearly, take a look at the main differences between a traditional “waterfall” sales process and an agile process: Agile sales management explained. So, how does agile management relate to sales? The benefits of agile sales management.
LeadFuze
JULY 14, 2023
How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.
Increase Sales
MAY 8, 2014
Math sometimes seem to be a poison to those in sales management. These industrious folks have a tendency to jump on board with the latest so called best practice without actually doing the math to see if their sales team can meet the goals. Then visit 10 of the home encircling the open house home. Share on Facebook.
The Center for Sales Strategy
AUGUST 21, 2018
Well, this scenario is one managers often find themselves in. Even the most successful sales managers can find themselves in this situation if they aren't intentional with their management practices and focused on retention. Recruiting and filling your talent bank is important.
The Center for Sales Strategy
MAY 16, 2022
As sales managers, we need to treat recruitment the same way. The most effective way to ensure you’re able to hire better talent is to build and maintain a strong talent bank. We are always asking our salespeople to prospect and keep their eyes open for new potential clients.
The Center for Sales Strategy
JUNE 4, 2018
Managers often reach out to us looking for creative ways to recruit people to their companies.
Increase Sales
MAY 9, 2014
After a extremely cold and snowy winter, sales people are out in force attempting to achieve the sales goals set by sales management. The problem is many of these sales managers have failed to do simple math to learn if these goals are realistic. By doing the math, probably2 sales people could be terminated.
Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 25, 2018
I know, you fell into sales, and perhaps from there, sales management. Bank on it! A good sales job interview question is, “Will you bank-roll me at relevant conferences 100 percent?” If hesitation, don't work there - that's an anti-sales culture. Your net worth is the size of your network. (h/t
Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 30, 2012
Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! building sales relationships (7). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12).
Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 25, 2024
We rely on the pioneer and #1 sales management evaluation by Objective Management Group to help understand exactly what it takes to ‘motivate’ a sales team. What are the competencies and behaviors of those leaders who seem so talented at helping others achieve their very best?
Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 12, 2024
Many or few, consistent or irregular, planned or impromptu, the sales performance management activities that we, as sales managers, use to motivate, train and hold our sales team accountable are at least partly responsible for the success or lack of success of those we manage.
Anthony Cole Training
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! building sales relationships (7). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12).
Adaptive Business Services
JANUARY 31, 2024
Let’s examine that … Back in the 80’s, I was the sales manager for a local office equipment company. In 2006 I secured a deal with a regional bank that was going to be rapidly expanding in S.W. It wasn’t a large job, but the bank had huge potential. There is a caveat to this title. One in particular was huge for us.
Anthony Cole Training
MAY 19, 2011
Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! building sales relationships (7). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12).
Adaptive Business Services
MAY 3, 2023
What are my/our sales for the month? How much money do I have in my bank accounts? Certainly I think it does for salespeople, solopreneurs, and small sales teams. If their sales are low is it because they are not making the calls, they struggle in the sales process, or they just can’t close a deal?
Sales 2.0
OCTOBER 11, 2019
No deep geeky conversations to have that would surely persuade other brilliant techies to sign large contracts and make contributions to my firm’s and my bank account. That was when I realized what the sales people did that I had worked with in my first sales engineering job— they got meetings. Oh, so that was what they did!
Anthony Cole Training
AUGUST 29, 2011
Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! building sales relationships (7). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12).
The Center for Sales Strategy
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Sales managers in every market say the same thing — finding great salespeople is hard. Managers often reach out to us looking for creative ways to recruit people to their companies. If you're waiting for an opening on your staff to begin recruiting salespeople for your talent bank, it's too late!
Partners in Excellence
AUGUST 31, 2022
” Reflecting back numbers of years, my first customers were major money center banks. We didn’t get training about our products or solutions, the sole focus of that program was to help us better understand banks and banking. I was able to talk to them about their business and banking.
Anthony Cole Training
MARCH 23, 2010
Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! building sales relationships (7). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12).
Allego
DECEMBER 13, 2023
You get to meet, share ideas, and have fun with other sales enablement managers, sales managers, learning and development professionals, and revenue enablement folks. Below is a list of the top sales enablement conferences for 2024. Then there’s the networking. The theme for 2024 is “Innovate Today.
Steven Rosen
MAY 28, 2014
The answer that traditional sales leaders have used in the past is to throw more money at their team to drive performance. The researchers at MIT in a 2005 study for the Federal Reserve Bank concluded that : As long as the task involved only mechanical skills, bonuses and rewards work. The higher the pay the better the performance.
Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 19, 2017
I’ve written on this subject, talked about it at workshops/keynotes and presented it to our clients in our Sales Managed Environment ® Certification program for over 20 years. It’s still something that we get asked about when we present at the Community Bank CEO Network and other venues. It’s still in the news.
The Center for Sales Strategy
MARCH 12, 2020
From reduced revenue to poor employee morale, there’s one situation that creates heightened anxiety among sales managers and CEOs, and that’s an open position that goes unfilled for too long. Somebody is better than nobody”—we’ve all said it when it comes to our sales team. Here’s how you can start today.
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 21, 2023
Excerpt from Objective Management Group’s recent webinar on The Data Behind Sales Managers of Elite Teams. The second chapter of this guide addresses a fundamental question: how often should sales managers coach their teams?
Anthony Cole Training
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Sales organizations typically have plenty of sales data due to the growth and usage of CRM systems, critical to capturing the activities that are occurring with the sales team. But effective coaching with sales performance data often becomes the greater challenge with sales managers and leaders.
Adaptive Business Services
JULY 26, 2023
It’s just that more difficult to manage these multiple moving parts. Another aspect is that most often using a CRM is something that has been requested (dictated) by their company or sales manager. I’ve spent that last 45 years as either a salesperson or as a sales manager. Get over it and do it for YOURSELF!
The Center for Sales Strategy
JULY 23, 2019
When sales managers are working to build their talent bank with qualified candidates, it's not easy. Couple that with your desire to have the very best sales talent in there, it gets quite a bit harder.
Anthony Cole Training
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
This is from the deep data warehouse of Objective Management Group, our partner and the pioneer of the sales assessment. Unfortunately, we also know that less than 10% of sales managers are considered highly effective at this critical role of coaching.
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 28, 2023
Excerpt from Objective Management Group’s recent webinar on The Data Behind Sales Managers of Elite Teams. Through a deep analysis of sales evaluations and coaching frequencies, we uncover the impact of consistent coaching on various aspects of sales performance.
Pipeliner
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
Financial management is another hurdle, with a disconnect often existing between profitability and cash flow. You might be running a profitable business but still struggle to have enough money in the bank. This is further complicated by the cash gap – the time between paying expenses and collecting on sales.
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