Topline Leadership

AUGUST 5, 2022

Sales managers can claim to have a healthy sales team when they reach 80% to 90% of their sales team members performing at or above their individual sales quotas. The trouble is, sales managers often have only 30% to 40% of their salespeople at or above quota. Read full article.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 9, 2020

million per sales manager. Message to Management: Your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople so they can do what they were hired to do—sell!”. But I don’t think any sales manager listened, because more than half of reps are still missing quota. million per manager.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 5, 2022

Sales Manager Coaching. 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.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 23, 2022

5 Sales Manager Coaching Blunders. Sales coaching is the No. 1 management activity that drives sales performance. The only problem is that managers have not been taught how to coach effectively. Do You Want To Increase Sales Performance?

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Don on Selling

JUNE 27, 2021

Sales Managers must act like Coaches to build successful sales teams. It’s been my experience that most salespeople don’t like being coached. It’s not because they don’t want to improve and generate more sales. On the contrary, most salespeople are driven to succeed. Here’s mine –.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 14, 2021

Nearly a year into the Pandemic, most salespeople have adapted to selling over video. But how are sales managers doing at adapting to coaching their sales force over video? We know how sales managers were doing before the pandemic. Inquiring minds want to know. Let's find out.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 3, 2024

Dennis Connelly, Derek Baer and I were sharing our experiences coaching salespeople, sales managers and sales leaders, and comparing those who were and weren’t coachable. When it comes to coaching up salespeople, there are many conditions that must be met. It wasn’t personal.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Are you, as a sales leader, spending at least 50% of your time coaching your salespeople, helping them to develop their skills and become more productive? It’s time to inspect your own behaviors as a coach and mentor. How do you measure up?

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Steven Rosen

MAY 10, 2017

6 FREE Sales Management Training Webinars . The #1 driver of performance in sales organizations are front-line sales managers. The STAR Sales Management Development Survey found that only 50% of sales managers were receiving on-going training and development in core skills.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 30, 2018

Davis Excellent sales managers aren’t made overnight. As a manager, you’re always learning and growing along with your sales team. Every team member has a unique reaction to your management style, and it takes a great manager to navigate all those unique situations and relationships.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 17, 2019

In addition to that, I received a number of emails asking, what are the requirements for becoming a great sales manager? Now for sales management. Do you remember the first time you coached a salesperson and they told you how helpful your coaching was? Do you remember your first "portable" computer?

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 26, 2021

Sales Manager’s Success Checklist. How can you assess if you are on track? It is far too early to look at sales early. Go through the checklist below and see how many items you have completed ensuring that you are on track. Do All Your Sales Reps Have Strong Business Plans? Keep your plan simple.

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Pipeliner

JULY 18, 2018

Sales coaching is a perennially difficult subject. This article explores ways to improve sales coaching and provides actionable insights to jumpstart the creation of the coaching process. Sales coaching is not counseling or teaching. These are all good things, but they’re not sales coaching.

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Selling Power

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Here's how sales managers can coach stuck salespeople to success.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 5, 2017

How are early versions of technology different from crappy salespeople and crappy sales managers? For one thing, salespeople and sales managers tend to stay crappy unless professional training, coaching and interventions occur.

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Keith Rosen

JANUARY 12, 2019

Sales quotas are set, but is there alignment, buy-in, and a bulletproof strategy to achieve them? Are you certain your sales team has the skills, fearless attitude and structure to thrive? Fine-tune this conversation to fit your situation and the needs of each person you’re managing.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 3, 2020

Unleash the 10X Factor to Close the Sales Gap. Do you want to close the sales gap? Now is the time to get sales on track. Even though we are still social distancing and face to face selling may not resume until 2021, you are still responsible for sales results. Sales managers are the key to driving sales performance.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We know that salespeople reporting to a manager with strong coaching skills tend to have 28% more close-able late-stage opportunities. This is from the deep data warehouse of Objective Management Group, our partner and the pioneer of the sales assessment.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It is enticing to play the role of a manager in a sales team. Along with your own quota, you even need to ensure that your sales team performs well and achieves its sales quota. The real key to building a winning sales team is effective sales management. Best sales management books you must read.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

MARCH 17, 2020

How do you coach a salesperson to improve their sales results using digital tools like LinkedIn? All you need to do is present it at a sales meeting, maybe send a few articles you found, and that should be it. So let’s look at some ways you can leverage sales coaching to drive online selling skills in your team.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 14, 2024

In this 3:35 video , Colleen and Steven stress the significance of assertiveness, self-awareness, and emotional management in coaching discussions, advising against defensive or aggressive reactions to feedback. Key Takeaways: Assertiveness is a crucial skill for managers to develop in accountability conversations.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 4, 2022

Part 2: Coaching Your Team Post-Covid Recovery. In the pre-COVID days, sales managers would ride along with a sales rep for the day. The most significant impact of COVID on salespeople was the shift from face-to-face to virtual sales calls. This was a painful transition for many sales reps.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Steven and Colleen explain how shifting accountability to the individual is crucial. Managers can support, coach, and provide resources, but ultimately, it’s up to the individual to perform. “Performance is owned by the individual, not the manager.”

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Steven and Colleen explain how shifting accountability to the individual is crucial. Managers can support, coach, and provide resources, but ultimately, it’s up to the individual to perform. “Performance is owned by the individual, not the manager.”

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Awesome Virtual Coaching Creates Master Virtual Sellers. Sales organizations have had to adjust how they prospect, sell, and interact with customers and each other. . However, there are two fundamental activities that successful sales organizations have been able to continue doing despite COVID. You need to coach them !

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 12, 2017

Sales Management Challenges . Many sales managers are finding it increasingly more difficult to keep juggling all their priorities. Well, here is a great opportunity to hear it straight from two leading sales management experts. Overcoming Your Biggest Sales Management Challenges.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Even if you have exceeded your sales numbers this year, chances are your sales team is still not performing at peak levels. Coaching is the number one sales management activity that drives sales performance. Take the Q9 Sales Leadership Assessment and see how your leadership stacks up.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

For most organizations, the answer is to gain visibility into the activities of individual sales reps. If leaders can’t see what salespeople are doing, they can’t manage what their reps are doing. Nor can they make smart investments in improving sales capability. Management Matters. In fact, we agree with it.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Explore how they drive their team to achieve immediate goals while building loyalty for long-term business growth. This guide reveals how to lead with unparalleled skill. What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart?

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 2, 2018

The first strategy is to invest in your front line sales managers. Do you want to crush your sales numbers in 2018? Well for the next 5 days I am going to share my five strategies that help sales executives crush their sales numbers. Would You Like to Crush Your Sales Numbers in 2018?

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Developing Master Sales Coaches. Do you have a team of master sales coaches? Are your sales managers ready to crush it in 2020 or will it be another frustrating, mediocre 12-months? Unfortunately, as you know, this won’t maximize your sales nor improve the competencies of your sales team.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 18, 2023

Coaching the Coaches The question of the day is, who’s coaching the coaches on coaching? The reality is there is no one coaching the coaches. Second-line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. The Problem: Coaching isn’t Easy Maybe you’re lucky.

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Steven Rosen

JULY 12, 2022

What Great Sales Managers Do? Many sales managers will be sitting down with their sales people over the next month or so to do mid-year reviews to gauge progress on objectives, business plans, and development plans. Sales managers spend a considerable amount of time preparing for a mid-year performance review.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 17, 2012

As the head of sales you know that the primary role of the sales managers is to coach and develop their sales team. In fact you believe that great coaching will be a key driver in helping you achieve your sales goals. Your sales managers all think that they are doing a great job coaching.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Despite this spending level, 68% of sales professionals are rated as moderate performers in the State of Sales, fourth edition, report from Salesforce. It’s tempting to call out sales professionals as slackers after considering these numbers. Do your sales reps lack credibility in the marketplace?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 10, 2018

Author: Michelle Vazzana, CEO, Vantage Point Performance Frontline sales managers have a difficult job. In fact, we think they have the hardest job in any sales organization. Despite the varied and intense demands put on sales managers, they are given relatively little guidance or training on how to actually do their job.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 18, 2022

The 3 most important questions that we need to address when making hiring decisions for a sales position are: Can the candidate effectively sell virtually? Unfortunately, most sales organizations have not adapted their hiring process to identify top performers in the post-COVID reality. Settling for mediocrity to fill the vacancy.

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