Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” There are surveys asking for the one area sales managers should focus on. These cover things like comp/metrics, training, forecasts, hiring, sometimes even coaching. There are surveys for sellers covering things like prospecting, pipeline management, closing, sales process. We have to do the whole job.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 22, 2018

Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement. What can you do? Do nothing.

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. In order to maximize performace at the 100m, athletes train and diet – you will find that some do it through drugs, but that is like lying to the customer. New Concepts Driving Greater Performance .

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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. I’ll stop here.

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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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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2020

One of the managers on the call told this story, “I went to the university and got all sorts of training that was very powerful (he was getting a degree in computer science), the problem was, I had a lot of knowledge, but it didn’t help me much in doing my job. Tools, systems, processes, training are not enough.

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Let’s explore the key success factors for manufacturers to maximize sales through indirect channels. While indirect channel partners purchase your product from you, they are not your product’s end-user, a distinction some manufacturers struggle to understand in relationship management. Clearly Define Your Channels.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are lots of great books (including Sales Manager Survival Guide), there are a lot of great training programs (including those we offer), but somehow managers continue to struggle in both finding the time to coach and coaching in high impact ways. Their own managers aren’t great role models, as coaches.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2020

For example, as sales people, we may look at territory or account management, prospecting, managing opportunities through the buying cycle, call planning/meeting management, pipeline management/forecasting, administrative functions, time management, training/learning and so forth.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

Here is what we believe it takes to compete with a strong solid sales team that closes the right deals with great sales velocity. Complicated commission plans or unwieldy territory rules and exceptions cause a half-baked sales team. Train and coach frontline sales leaders.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 15, 2021

There are all sorts of things for us to think about: We can give them more responsibility and bigger territories. For example, we can move them into sales enablement, helping onboard or train sales people. Or product management, helping developers better understand the “real world of customers.”

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2016

The responsibilities of a sales manager are very broad. Frontline managers have to work to make sure each person on the team is performing at the highest levels possible. They have to provide the coaching, training, systems, processes, tools, and support to enable their people to achieve their goals. No related posts.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program. It requires a process, a consistent sales methodology, and time. Coaching vs. Managing.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2016

Unless you are a sales manager with your own territory (which is an untenable position), you don’t produce revenue. It’s an important point that too many in sales management don’t understand. The only way to make your numbers is through maximizing the performance of each person on your team.

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Sales Training Connection

APRIL 27, 2015

Sales Manager. Well, a sales manager with the “super salesperson syndrome ” will probably exhibited some of these 6 characteristics : Sell rather than coach. When push comes to shove, S 3 sales managers will spend their time selling rather than sales coaching. Take over sales calls.

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

Even worse, the content they get from marketing doesn’t match the messaging used in assets from the product team or the information drilled into them during training, so they confuse your buyers and end up creating their own content, wasting several hours per week. First, sales enablement is about a lot more than technology.

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BrainShark

MAY 31, 2023

Compared to what Sales Enablement Pro calls “activity-based metrics” that look at the number of calls made, demo sessions booked, or emails sent, time to competency is instead a skill-based metric which may be less quantifiable upfront but more valuable in the long run.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Helps predict future sales trends.

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Highspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

When you work in sales, it’s not enough to just meet your goals. To truly maximize revenue, the sales team requires a style of management that uses collaboration, analysis, and a proactive approach. This is where sales performance management(SPM) comes in. Why is Sales Performance Management Important?

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 18, 2019

The reason I want you to walk through this is to help you think about what I think is the biggest challenge facing sales leaders in maximizing the performance of their organizations: Talent. The sales person’s territory is open for 3 months. Average sales and sales manager tenure is 16.5

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 10, 2013

Sales reps – what’s their style? Over the years there have been many frameworks introdued to distinguish different types of sales reps – hunters vs. farmers , top performers vs. underachievers, and territory sales reps vs. national account executives. ©2013 Sales Momentum ® LLC.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

. • How to avoid discounting and sell at full-price. • The secret to successfully executing a price increase with existing customers. • Proven methods to grow business and maximize profits. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy. Sales Success.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 27, 2015

The post, Your #1 Priority As A Sales Manager (Plus 3 Things To Stop Doing) is brilliant. One quote stands out: “Your job as the sales leader is to ensure your sales team produces results, not do the work!” Some of it is the result of misguided sales managers playing Super Salesperson.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. I was curious to hear what he thinks. I think the opposite.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 16, 2019

Grow our share of account/territory Constantly learn and improve Leap over tall buildings… (Oops). As managers we know we have to: Hire, onboard, develop, retain the very best talent. Maximize the performance of each person on our team. Sales Managers Need Coaching And Development Too!

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 29, 2021

It’s been reported by the Sales Management Association that the average sales new hire spends 10 weeks in training, only becoming productive after 11.2 Onboarding new sales talent is a huge investment for most organizations, and getting it right can be a make or break for your business. Competitive intel.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2019

The sales process represents our best practice in aligning our activities with the customer buying process. We develop the sales process based on the things we identify that maximize our success and ability to win. Yet too many sales people aren’t using the sales process. Keep a disciplined review cadence.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 13, 2014

Second, we have to maximize the performance both of the overall organization and of each individual in the organization. Let me start with maximizing the performance of each individual in the organization. But our jobs as leaders is maximizing performance–not meeting minimums. We are not maximizing performance!

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LevelEleven

MARCH 29, 2019

Even if sales managers understand the importance of coaching, they usually go about it all wrong or fail to make it the priority it should be. Many organizations offer their managers training to help them coach more effectively. Over-Complicated Training Processes. Sales Coaching Best Practices.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 8, 2021

Again, the fault is less on the individual and more on the manager not taking the time to understand the qualities necessary for success in the role and matching the candidates to those qualities. This is more than just saying, “Here’s your territory, here’s your quota, here’s your comp plan.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 21, 2022

in football would transition well to a sales career. In sales, it is easy to get distracted by things outside of our control. For example, the sales manager does not give us the “starting position” and we can react negatively. His highly competitive nature would propel him into uncharted territory.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sales territories get a bad rep. . But that’s not a problem with sales territories as a whole so much as it’s a problem with how those territories were created and assigned. When you create balanced sales territories that everyone is happy with, the benefits can be huge. . What is a sales territory?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet one aspect of Millennials in the sales force only tangentially touched, but which will have significant implications for sales management,is the desire for more feedback. . But what about Sales? So, how might sales managers meet the coaching and feedback expectation of the Millennial generation? .

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Pipeliner

APRIL 24, 2020

Unfortunately, companies worshipping at the Maximize Shareholder Value altar have trashed and trampled this ideal. No one wags a shaming finger at former industry executives whose sales strategies created that ugly archetype. Contrary to what many believe, greedy ostentatious are not inherently drawn to the sales profession.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 1, 2021

As leaders, our jobs are to maximize the performance of each individual and the organization. Instead, we manage by the numbers or dashboards. We are spending at higher levels for tools, programs, training, yet not seeing the results, so we invest in new tools, programs, training. We have skyrocketing turnover/attrition.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 1, 2014

Often, it’s managers saying, “My team isn’t doing what they need to be doing,” or “This one person isn’t really cutting it.” As we look to maximizing our performance, we need to start with examining ourselves and what we are doing. Do you set aside adequate prospecting time?

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