Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We provide insights, examples of what others are doing. Whether it’s an individual seeking to maximize her performance, or a team struggling with a change initiative or even collaborating effectively, the things they face are similar to those our customers face–yet the context is slightly different.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As we settle into 2021, maximizing trust is a top priority for sales managers and professionals, company leaders, and entrepreneurs. How can you maximize trust in your business while managing to keep energy and finance costs down? Here are four ways to maximize trust in your business and prevent excess in 2021.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s hard to become a sales manager without first being a good sales rep. After all, when the majority of your own quota is based on your team’s sales performance, you need to know how to sell. . But that doesn’t mean the best closer is guaranteed to make the best sales manager. Strong leadership .

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Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to make sure your team has everything they need to succeed. The answer is resource management skills—a crucial but often overlooked skill in the sales manager’s toolkit. Table of Contents What is resource management for sales?

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Vengreso

APRIL 23, 2019

The leaders of every organization want to maximize sales effectiveness and productivity. But the ever-changing digital sales landscape can make it hard to keep up. That’s why I wanted to bring Mat Singer, Senior Director of Sales Effectiveness for CenturyLink on as my guest on this episode of #SellingWithSocial.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Perhaps more than other more average fields, you really need virtues in sales management. The bottom line: if you don’t clearly understand how a sales manager needs to be poised for the future, you reduce the chances of creating value and growth. The need for courage comes into play all throughout a sales manager’s job.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Onboarding and training new hires is another sales management responsibilities.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 11, 2019

The role of a sales manager may be the hardest job in sales. While coaching your team to sales success, your responsibilities include recruiting new talent and meeting the needs of key customers, all while collaborating with internal stakeholders such as marketing, product management and executives.

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This sales strategy example can also act as a template to document your sales plans and goals. Developing a robust sales strategy, one that can be implemented and measured is a vital cog in every company’s growth plans. Before we go into a sales strategy example, lets cover four important pre-planning actions.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2014

As with the prior articles, I get huge numbers of requests from sales manager to help Hack their jobs. “What are the short cuts?” ” “How do I manage my time better?” Having said that, here’s a few of my favorite hacks to sales management. Are you setting the right example?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This post is about how CEOs should invest in sales managers to improve revenue growth in 2013. As part of our annual Q3 Research Tour, SBI surveyed over 10,000 sales reps. If you are considering sending your sales managers to training seminars in 2013, keep your money. Develop a custom sales management program.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 11, 2024

For example, we see percent of people achieving goals declining—today roughly 40% of sellers are achieving or exceeding quota? Our jobs as leaders is to maximize the performance of every part of our business. But it seems we aren’t driven to maximize their performance. We constantly talk about winning.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 3, 2020

It’s no secret that salespeople often fail as sales managers. Nonetheless, many of the best reps within an organization often end up in management positions. Whether you’re actively seeking a role as a manager or have already gotten a promotion, you should understand the most difficult aspects of the transition.

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Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

ValueSelling Associates’ Julie Thomas and Highspot’s Kelly Lewis break down how to maximize the impact of revenue enablement Love it, hate it – or do everything in your power to work around it – when it comes to the revenue enablement function, everyone’s a critic. So, why do such polarized opinions persist?

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Can sales managers become true coaches rather than simply managers and directors? Even if they may want to do it, they may be too concerned with how the other party will take it – not wanting to come across as pushy or too salesy, for example. They try to perform as instructed and they can’t. So, guess what?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For example, expectations around prospecting, or pipeline development. It should outline expected behaviors, for example how customers are engaged or treated, expectations of teamwork within the organization. Our jobs as leaders is to maximize the performance of each person on our team.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

When that transition is from an individual contributor to manager, that adjustment can be even more jarring. We all know the typical story with sales managers – they were a top performing salesperson, had ambitions to move up in their career, and then a position opens up and they are managing a group of salespeople.

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this guest blog post from one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , Kevin Lewis, Global Sales Excellence Leader at Milliken Chemical and an authority on developing sales managers, recommends five ways to get new sales managers off to a great start. Great sales leaders aren’t born: they’re made.

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BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And the first step is clear—team managers and leaders must understand and admit that obsolete management practices are resisting innovations outright. Because AI empowers leaders to maximize human strengths rather than getting dragged into metric minutiae. Practical examples follow. Take Atrium for example.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2014

I’m not sure anyone looks forward to the Sales Management Review (sometimes these are called QBR’s, but there are other reviews). It’s unfortunate, because there’s a huge amount of value in the review process–both for sales people and managers.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

New sales managers. New sales managers face a lot of new challenges. As they seek to develop the skills to work through new challenges, there is a tendency to gravitate back to what they know how to do – in the case of new sales managers , it’s usually selling. ©2013 Sales Momentum, LL.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 20, 2018

Moving into the role of Sales Manager is a challenge for everyone. Often, new managers don’t get great coaching from their managers. Often, new managers don’t pay attention to the coaching they get from their managers. Too many new managers fail in their first 90 days, yet never know it.

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Sales Evangelist

MAY 7, 2020

The Sales Manager's Guide To Greatness! You may have been a top salesperson, and still continue to be, but that doesn’t always qualify you to be a top sales manager. Davis is the author of the book The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness: Ten Essential Strategies for Leading your Team to the Top.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 19, 2016

Perusing my news feeds this morning, an article entitled, “Should Sales Managers Coach” caught my eye. Is it a super closer/sales person? The job of the front line sales manager is to maximize the performance of each person on the team! It’s management forsaking a key responsibility.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Managers spend time helping them become productive. Ironically, we provide very little in the way of onboarding new managers, particularly new front line sales managers. Typically, the process is: “Lisa, congrats on moving into the front line sales manager role…… I need an updated forecast by Tuesday!”

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Troops

APRIL 18, 2018

A sales pipeline is a visual representation of where sales prospects are in the buying process. Sales pipeline stages represent the various points a buyer may be in the buying process. A C-suite executive, sales manager or sales director typically creates the sales stages. Perform sales call coaching.

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

MARCH 5, 2024

Distribution is exceptionally competitive, and finding ways to maximize your sales opportunities can help you with that competitive edge. Here is an overview of its functionalities so you can unlock its potential for driving strategic sales growth. Ready to take the next step?

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

We seldom hear about managers, yet coaching managers–at all levels even up to the CEO is critical in maximizing their performance and, in turn, enabling them to maximize the performance of their people. Managers will tend to model their behaviors and approaches after what they see from their own management.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The job of the sales leader is to maximize the performance of the organization. The sales leader has to make sure the organization is working as effectively and efficiently as possible, executing the corporate strategy with the customers. We have to have a Sales Management Operating System.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2019

So why is it any different with sales? Accordingly, onboarding is a critical component in maximizing reps’ performance and ability to positively impact the bottom line. In fact, more than six in 10 organizations (62%) say their sales onboarding programs are ineffective, according to the Sales Management Association (SMA).

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Allego

MARCH 30, 2023

Add to that the management and administrative tasks that go with every sale, and even top performers may end up exhausted and frustrated. They need help improving their productivity —to maximize sales results while reducing the cost, energy, and time spent on each deal. Sales training is one solution.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

For example, if you sell recruiting software and you’re bidding on the keyword “applicant tracking system,” a search platform may recommend a keyword such as “how to get a job.” For example, if it’s small business owners, they often work every day of the week, so running ads on the weekends might make sense.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Related: How to Calculate a Lead Score, with Examples. Sales leaders often evaluate prospects and existing customers based on readily available information — order history, and firmographic data (company location, size, industry, etc). Related: The New Growth Formula: Customer Success + Predictive Sales. Try This Instead.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 7, 2014

Here’s his take: “Our clients are constantly asking us where sales managers should spend their time. No matter what one’s position in life may be—CEO, vice president of sales, regional sales manager, president of a country, or general of an army—we all have the same amount of time: 24 hours a day, 168 hours a week, 52 weeks a year.

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Allego

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In this episode, sales strategists Ken and Nick Valla, co-founders of The Valla Group, discuss how their firm helps B2B sellers maximize performance. Learn why organizations must transform their training approach in a hybrid work environment , what sales leaders should do differently, and the key skills sellers need today.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 4, 2015

Sales managers and the time trap. For sales managers Public Enemy # 1 is time. The more successful a sales manager, the more demands on their time. One simple answer is enough is enough when there is not enough time left to manage and coach your sales team. ©2015 Sales Momentum, LLC. .

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