Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 4, 2012

She does it as Late Night Show host David Letterman style with the top 10 reasons to read 52 Sales Management Tips. I just finished reading Steven Rosen’s 52 Sales Management Tips – The Sales Manager’s Success Guide. Thank you Dawn. His insights and advice are invaluable.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 6, 2024

In this 2:42 video, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley delve into the vital role of preparation in mastering difficult conversations with sales representatives. They stress the importance of sales managers dedicating time to pre-call planning, ensuring productive discussions.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A post for Sales and HR Leaders to find root causes of Sales Manager (SM) vacancies. The Sales Manager position is the fulcrum between sales leadership strategy and sales force execution. Teams without effective sales managers lack morale and discipline. Weak sales strategy.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. My colleague, Steven Rosen, has published a new Sales Management Book which you should read. It's called 52 Sales Management Tips and it's the kind of book that you can read in less than an hour! c) Copyright 2012 Dave Kurlan

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SBI

JANUARY 28, 2020

6 Ways Sales Enablement Leaders can Gain Sales Management Support. Sales Enablement is generally focused on assisting individual sellers with less focus placed on others in the organization. “ Sales Enablement supports the sales team to move buyers to a decision point. Sales technology.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2021

As a sales manager, ensuring that your team's communication with prospects is tight and effective is in your best interest. That process — making sure your team's communications aren't erratic — is most commonly referred to as implementing consistent sales messaging. It can be guided by example.

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The Spiff Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The variable component of success between great historic leaders and sales managers is exactly the same, and that variable is motivation. This individual more or less had complete control over their success, and therefore, they also had complete control over their sales compensation. Understanding How to Motivate Sales Managers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan An interesting article, Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers , by Xactly's CEO, Christopher Cabrera, was posted on Selling Power's 2/19/13 blog. This article lists the top 10 sales management competencies. So, what are the correct competencies? Selling skills!

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Braveheart Sales

MARCH 21, 2023

As you approach Sales Management training, your philosophy should be the same. Thanks to Objective Management Group , data we have on millions of salespeople would suggest that much of this has to do with a salesperson’s mindset regarding sales – their beliefs, motivations, and attitudes about sales, commonly referred to as sales DNA.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 12, 2021

Here, we'll review some common sales coaching challenges, go over how to approach them, and identify the key qualities of reps that are flat-out uncoachable. One of the most common, contentious issues sales managers run into with sales reps is lack of motivation. How to Handle Coaching Challenges.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Sales leaders agree that a highly motivated and engaged sales force drives greater performance. Many sales managers ask me how to ensure that they have a highly motivated and engaged team, and I usually ask them “WHY”? The sales manager must also be aware that each rep has different motivators.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 5, 2015

As I continue to think about habits of sales people and the role of the sales manager in identifying, assessing and “correcting” habits, I keep looking for additional information that might be additive to this string of articles. Ike sent me a link to a survey that was done regarding the hunt for sales managers/directors.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 1, 2024

Whether it’s Catholics who the Priest referred to, Jews that I referenced, various other Christian denominations, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and more, we are all members of a group – a congregation, and a religion. He could have added war, crime, violence, hate, the border, and and squatting to his list.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 20, 2023

And it can have a profound effect on your sales management, as backed up by the statistics. In this article, we take a deeper look at how you can make the most of marketing automation for improving sales management and growing your business. It directly impacts sales management by making it more efficient and responsive.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Coaching is the number one sales management activity that drives sales performance. However, most sales managers struggle to become highly effective coaches and fail to spend enough time coaching their salespeople. Take the Q9 Sales Leadership Assessment and see how your leadership stacks up.

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CommercialTribe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

What is more critical for sales managers is to regularly practice the craft of coaching and see the impact on more deals won and reps to plan. So, how can sales leaders help their teams adopt an approach backed by quantifiable insights to drive sustainable success? What is Sales Coaching Consistency? A Missed Opportunity.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Assess your strengths as a manager. Understand how your team wants to be managed. This is what matters.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 3, 2020

When I say “you,” I am referring to frontline sales managers and sales executives. Sales managers are the key to driving sales performance. They are the 10X factor as highly effective sales managers will impact 8-12 sales reps. Coaching (Remotely).

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For every salesperson who has had to sit through a performance review, it would seem to be a dream scenario -- an anonymous, unfiltered, and direct opportunity to tell your sales management exactly how you feel about them. If we can help you set your team up for consistent sales success, let’s start a conversation.

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Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

When you consider one of the key functions of a sales leader’s role is to build relationships that achieve results, then one of the key competencies must be to have the tough conversations. And this is where the difference between a sales manager and a sales leader becomes crystal clear. Think through strategy. ??

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

When you hear the term “Zero Tolerance to Sales Management,” I would imagine your first thought is about having little or no patience for inept or slip-shod sales people. However, I am referring to the reverse. You must take full and personal responsibility for the success or failure of your sales team.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

When I refer you, I put my reputation on the line, so I need to trust that you’ll take care of my connection as I would. I refer you to someone I know well. They know I won’t waste their time, and they’ll gain insights from anyone I refer. So, when I refer you, this person’s trust in me gets transferred to you.

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Xactly

JULY 5, 2018

One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. Sales managers and their reporting reps will have responsibilities unique to their roles, which means your compensation plans should be tailored to different roles. Your best sales rep is not necessarily the best leader.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Can sales managers influence the buying process? You can’t manage revenue. If sales close, you win. Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I seem to regularly have conversations with sales teams where I hear managers talk about accountability, implementation, follow-up—all referring to a system, process, or new business development that is lacking. Most of the time, my response is: "let’s talk about your weekly meetings and your weekly sales plan.".

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Zendesk Sell

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Below, learn how to use each of the five most important sales reports to be a successful sales manager. Strengthen lead generation and increase closed deals with the sales funnel analysis report. Track your sales goals progress with the sales revenue goals report.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 10, 2024

Reference a specific blog post or LinkedIn post to show you are already engaged with their content. It takes effort to build credibility in sales. Photo by Teona Swift SalesFuel - Sales Credibility | Sales Research | Sales Hiring | Sales Management | Sales Enablement

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DialSource

MAY 28, 2020

This triggered what many are referring to as the “ world’s biggest work-from-home experiment.”. For most, this occurred within a 24 to 48-hour timeframe, creating a wide spectrum of complex challenges — both in terms of sales teams and their managers. . KPIs Every Sales Manager Needs to Track During the Pandemic.

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LevelEleven

MAY 17, 2018

Q & A with Derek Wong, Geopointe Sales Development Supervisor. Many modern sales teams are implementing a Sales Management System that integrates with their CRM in order to motivate, engage, and coach their teams around the behaviors that support their business goals. We’re in sales and salespeople like incentives.

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Keith Rosen

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The Passive Manager. Also referred to as Parenting Managers or Pleasing Managers, the Passive Manager is obsessed with avoiding conflict and making people happy. Now, you’re positioned to transform from manager to coach who builds a world-class team of sales champions. So, be human, instead.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 1, 2021

News flash—part of the responsibility of every sales manager is to teach their salespeople how to help clients make decisions. So, the next time your sales managers ask you, “How did you generate those referrals? One of the biggest mistakes you can make in sales or life is to ask for something you haven’t earned.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 5, 2024

Having been the VP International Marketing for a couple of years, my boss at the time told me “It is time you had a real job” and gave me my first sales management role. In Sales, of course, you have to get people both to buy into the long term vision of the company and deliver quarterly results. The two are very different.

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CommercialTribe

JUNE 23, 2020

With June nearly over and the initial shock of the COVID-19 crisis behind us, sales management teams are focusing on building a plan to come out stronger on the other side. We recommend three main areas of focus for sales leaders: WHO they focus sales manager coaching effort against.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

If you are a sales manager OR if you report to a sales manager, listen up! NOW, early in the year, is the time for sales managers to be out on sales calls with their salespeople. I refer to these as “4-legged sales calls.”

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