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How Do You Determine the Success of Your Sales Managed Environment®?

Anthony Cole Training

First, it makes sense to define a Sales Managed Environment ® (SME™). For the last 15 years, we’ve built, developed, refined and implemented the principles we associate with a sales environment that is “managed”. The major components of SME™ are as follows:

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Sales Managers – Why Isn’t Goal Setting Easy?

Anthony Cole Training

Yes, the tenets for success was still based on a formula of sales steps and conversion ratios from one step to the next, but. As I write this, maybe I should change the title to “Sales Managers – Why Isn’t Goal Achievement Easy?” This is one of the deliverables in our SME program.

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Curiosity Is A Way Of Life

The Pipeline

As an SME, you don’t need to hold on to your product for security, you are free to truly explore. Then extend that into your conversations with colleagues, Including your sales manager. Think beyond the limits of standard blah blah blah questions they’ve been exposed to. Curiously Different.

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Grab The Right End of the Problem For Effective Sales Management

Anthony Cole Training

However, once I got into sales, sales management, sales training and became a president of a company, I think I finally understood. You generally end up hiring some marginal people – people that need coaching, feedback, mentoring and performance management. Brian Tracey describes it as “Eat That Frog”.

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How to Build the Guidance That Turns Strategy into Action

Highspot

Building a play relies on three different subject matter experts (SMEs). Each SME should be one person. Topic SME – Often product or content marketing. Enablement SME – Most likely the enablement team member supporting the internal audience the play is designed for. Answer: Topic SME = Partner Marketing Manager.

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5 Keys to Building a Successful Sales Team/Career

Anthony Cole Training

The program, delivered in a 45 to 90 minute segment, is an overview of our Sales Managed Environment (SME) program. SME is one of our corporate coaching/consulting deliverables for companies trying to get the answers to the big question: How do we drive more sales growth? I’m reading Dan Pink’s book, Drive.

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3 Business Lessons Learnt Whilst Travelling Half The World!

Bernadette McClelland

Whilst I am extremely fortunate to have a husband who supports me completely and who is a national sales manager in his own right, that is still not enough sometimes. If you are an entrepreneur or SME and want to commercialise your dream of changing the world then join us on The Acceleration Program.

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