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3 Exercises to Hone Your Team’s Consultative Selling Skills

criteria for success

As a sales manager, how do you improve your team’s performance? These tactics may improve salesperson productivity if they’re already doing the right things, but selling requires deliberate practice. If you want to make a real difference in sales performance, the key for many salespeople is coaching.

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How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program

SalesFuel

Most sales managers would like to do that. But since they can’t, the next best thing may be to reengineer your sales training program. How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program Before you begin to adjust the details of your sales training initiatives, take time to study your rain makers. Here are the details.

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The 7 Most Critical Selling Skills in Wholesale Distribution

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Let’s start with how distributors ranked urgency to improve seven critical selling skills. For all seven skills, the majority of respondents felt it was “urgent” or “extremely urgent” to close gaps. The most critical skill gap – 62 percent call it “extremely urgent” – is “selling value, not price.”

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Five Skills to Help New Sales Managers Succeed

Miller Heiman Group

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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[Message to Management]: Your Team Is Wasting Your Time

No More Cold Calling

Salespeople not performing, dragging you down, and compromising your team‘s sales effectiveness? Perhaps you didn’t equip them with the skills and tools to do their job. On-boarding a new sales rep requires more than providing a desk, a phone, and a password. Where Should Sales Managers Spend Their Time?

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37 Sales Leadership Stats to Know in 2020

Hubspot Sales

Sales leaders who did not invest in remote selling fell behind — 50% of this subgroup did not hit their sales targets this year. 70% of sales managers say a manager’s ability to navigate change is more important now than it was five years ago. Remote Selling. Sales Leader Priorities.

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10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Sales Manager

Hubspot Sales

So, you think you want to be a sales manager? If you’re an individual top-performing contributor in your sales organization and you’re thinking of applying for a sales manager role, let me give you a bit of a reality check first. Check out my book on running a human-centric sales process that'll win more customers.