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Sales success – Five success tips from professional athletes

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Managing the “energy pie” – The “energy pie” is all those things that take your time and effort. The amount of the “energy pie” available for winning is reduced by distractions. Does a new opportunity emerge to leverage one of your strengths? Are there additional steps you need to take in the sales process?

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Get sales coaching happening – target trigger events

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Many great companies start coaching initiatives with tremendous energy and commitment. In organizations certain events occur that create an enormous amount of organic energy and focus. While most sales leaders agree about the importance of sales coaching, most also admit “the job isn’t getting done.” Enter Trigger Event Sales Coaching.

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Sales managers must not forget to forgive – A sales tip

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She goes on to note that, “Anger and blame are unproductive emotions that tie up energy.”. According to Rosabeth Moss Kanter , “Leaders must be firm and foster accountability, but they also must know when to forgive past mistakes in the service of building a brighter future.”

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Sales leaders – 5 tips for achieving your best from McKinsey & Co

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Find your strength – As we’ve written before, sales leaders spend a lot of their energy focusing on weaknesses. Although the book is about leadership in general, we thought the lessons were particularly important for sales leaders.

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Leveraging sales success

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Winning often produces a type of energy and resilience to persist after setbacks. Rosabeth Moss Kanter provides some insights in her book Confidence , where she explores the behavior of winners in the world of sports. We have translated five of her observations to the world of sales. Resistance to Setbacks.

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Sales managers … don’t forget about trust

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Managers must make a conscious effort, devoting time and energy to developing trust. Well, managers can demand compliance, but they must earn commitment – which requires trust. Believing that trust will just happen doesn’t work. In that regard there are no universal best practices – there are however some actions that are worth exploring.

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Sales middle managers – what motivates them the most?

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The results are part of Insigniam’s 2014 Middle Management Survey, which is based on responses from 200 managers in Global 1000 companies from several industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy, manufacturing, and biotech.