Understanding the Sales Force

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Are Sales Managers Coaching More Frequently Now That Everyone is at Their Desks?

Understanding the Sales Force

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. Nearly a year into the Pandemic, most salespeople have adapted to selling over video. Inquiring minds want to know. It wasn't very good and I wrote about it here.

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Which is Worse - Crappy Salespeople or Crappy Sales Managers?

Understanding the Sales Force

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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25 Sales Experts on the Importance of Coaching Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone. Sales Managers don’t want to coach because it takes away from personal sales.

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Top 13 Requirements to Help You Soar as a Sales Manager

Understanding the Sales Force

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. Wow, did that resonate with people and there was a great discussion about it on LinkedIn.

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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

Companies are spending more money on sales force evaluations, sales training, consulting, sales leadership development, sales process, infrastructure and sales recruiting services than 5 years ago. There were some very good salespeople and sales managers among the mix of the total population of candidates.

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Starting with the Sales Management Team - Is it a Bad Decision?

Understanding the Sales Force

And he said, "But we don''t want to evaluate everyone right now, we want to start with our sales management team.". Small and mid-market companies don''t usually request this particular approach because their management teams are usually quite lean and it doesn''t make sense for them to take this approach. I hate being right.

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Was the Easter Sermon About Salespeople?

Understanding the Sales Force

As someone who for thirty-eight years has led a global sales consultancy specializing in sales, sales management and sales leadership training, I can use the same words to describe people “who belong” to the sales profession. They should be attending weekly training.