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Is Your Sales Management Relevant?

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Imagine for a moment you, as a member of a sales team, receives a message from sales management asking if you are “relevant to the company?” ” Then the message lists the 3 top sales performers and their accomplishments to date with a closing sentence of “So and So is relevant.”

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Are Your Sales Managers Selling Right?

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Beyond the sales managers who earned their roles because they were super sales people, how many in sales management roles actually sell right? No I am not talking about selling the solutions offered by the firms, but rather can these sales leaders sell the firm’s purpose, vision and current mission?

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For Banking Industry Sales Managers – How to Lead

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These changes have also presented commercial side sales managers with these five sales leadership barriers: Misalignment. Many banking industry sales managers have never heard of Galbraith’s 5 Star Model, but they should. In all actuality, time management does not exist because no one can manage a constant.

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Poor Sales Managers Are Trained; Great Managers Are Developed

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How many times do sales professionals leave or fail to meet performance goals because of poor sales managers? I just came across some research highlighted by Top Sales World (source: Chally) that suggested “80% of sales managers fail within eighteen months of being promoted.” Share on Facebook.

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5 Star Model Is Your Best Sales Management Friend

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Chaos sometimes appears to reign supreme especially for those in executive leadership, sales management and even more so for the solo entrepreneur (SOHO). The ability to increase sales is critical and yet the more sales, the more chaos and suddenly you feel like the hamster in the wheel, running and running without forward progress.

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Sales Management – Sales Killer or Motivator?

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Those in sales management seem to fall into one of two roles that being sales killer or sales motivator. ” Bottom line there appears to be a lot of counter productive behaviors from senior level to sales management to even front line salespersons in securing the goal to increase sales. .”

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The Super Worker Promoted to Sales Manager Disaster

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Once again a new sales coaching client is facing the super worker (think salesman) promoted to supervisor or sales manager disaster. Coming from a very supportive sales culture where her previous manager coached and helped her, she is now facing a 180 degree opposite. You begin to think: Am I doing things right?

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