Steven Rosen

APRIL 1, 2024

These discussions, whether addressing underperformance, behavioural issues, or compensation adjustments, are crucial for maintaining a healthy sales environment and driving performance. A Look at the Stats Recent surveys and studies have revealed an uncomfortable truth: many sales managers regularly sidestep difficult conversations.

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The Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Time management is one of the most important priorities for a sales manager. The best sales managers know they need to be dedicating a significant amount of their time each week coaching their salespeople—but which group will bring in the best return on coaching investment? The Great Debate.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 20, 2024

In this Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Gerilyn Horan , Hilton’s VP of Group Sales, shares strategies to become the best place to work In the world. She shares insights on creating a supportive environment and the importance of feedback, coaching, and company culture for employee engagement and retention.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the strategy of simultaneously setting learning and sales goals. They explore the intricate relationship between continuous learning and improving skills for sales leaders, stressing the need for a balance. In this article, we’ll look at the connection between sales and learning goals.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this 3:01 video, Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen stress that sales leaders must hold their teams accountable for performance. 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

In this 3:01 video, Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen stress that sales leaders must hold their teams accountable for performance. 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

Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen from the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast discuss how building excellence in sales leadership starts with having the right team. Sales leaders must be willing to make tough decisions about non-performers and proactively recruit top talent. “The world is moving faster. .”

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 14, 2024

Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen discuss the role of a sales leader as not just bringing in the numbers but developing their salespeople into self-managing individuals. ” – Steven Rosen “Unbelievably talented sales leaders still fall into that trap of rescuing their salespeople versus developing their salespeople.”

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 13, 2024

In the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley stress the lack of coaching and support for sales managers, underscoring the need for coaching for these managers. They leave because of their manager.” It’s about getting the sales managers up to speed.”

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

5 Ways top sales managers become a sales coach! Sales coaching is the most important sales management activity for driving sales performance. Unfortunately, most managers haven’t been taught how to properly coach their staff. Ask Effective Questions.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen from the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast discuss how building excellence in sales leadership starts with having the right team. Sales leaders must be willing to make tough decisions about non-performers and proactively recruit top talent. “The world is moving faster. .”

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen from the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast discuss how building excellence in sales leadership starts with having the right team. Sales leaders must be willing to make tough decisions about non-performers and proactively recruit top talent. “The world is moving faster. .”

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Message: Get your head out of the sand and start coaching. Top sales coaches have the power to supercharge a team’s performance. Research suggests that the best sales coaches can drive 19% more sales than those who are less effective coaches. But selling and coaching are different skill sets.

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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

APRIL 18, 2022

Hiring top performers has always been the lifeblood of any sales organization. COVID has changed sales forever. 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? Hiring Top Performers Post-COVID Recovery . Fit Interview.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 26, 2021

Sales Manager’s Success Checklist. It is far too early to look at sales early. Here are the top 10 questions you should ask yourself and your sales managers to gauge if you/they have set the foundation for success. Do All Your Sales Reps Have Strong Business Plans? Keep your plan simple.

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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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SalesFuel

APRIL 16, 2024

As a sales manager, you may feel this pressure more than other department heads. You can increase team productivity by personalizing coaching and improving efficiency in sales team processes. They may have recognized that their reps face bigger challenges in guiding leads through the B2B sales funnel.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

Although this is an article about sales process, the first two paragraphs have more to do with religion than sales. I’m sure by now you’re thinking, but Dave, what the heck does that have to do with sales process? I mined some data from Objective Management Group, which has assessed around 2.5

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 19, 2023

Most sales executives realize the impact of managers, not sales coaching. They know that sales coaching is one of the most significant levers to drive superior sales performance. To Coach Or Not To Coach? Source: Objective Management Group , Dave Kurlan. What is the problem?

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 20, 2019

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. That is where coaching programs fail miserably.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 20, 2023

Effectively Coaching Inside Salespeople As you look to develop a world-class inside sales team, the role of coaching inside salespeople can’t be understated. The key to effective coaching lies in understanding the unique challenges and opportunities of the inside sales environment.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 15, 2021

Business acumen and business planning are becoming a much more necessary skill for sales reps and sales managers. The company’s business planning processes require sales reps to build annual business plans. The Head office should prepare any sales report or dashboard. Quarterly Business Reviews .

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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 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2022

A classic issue in sales forces is promoting one of the top performing sales reps to the manager of a sales team, then having them fail in this new role. I just became much clearer on why this happens and what can be done about it, by reading just one section of David Brock’s book “The Sales Manager Survival Guide”.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Lee Smith A recent State of Sales report published by LinkedIn revealed that U.S. businesses spend $15 billion a year training their sales employees. Despite this spending level, 68% of sales professionals are rated as moderate performers in the State of Sales, fourth edition, report from Salesforce.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Are you a good sales leader or a great sales leader? What makes a great sales leader? I have found that the two most important critical success factors to being a great sales leader are: Top sales leaders build winning teams by coaching , engaging and being a BOLD leader.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For sales managers, look for qualities that build strong teams and motivate others to perform their best. Whether you seek a new hire or promotion, here are several essential qualities of sales managers. Spearheading a sales team is a multifaceted endeavor. Research in Brainshark shows the importance of coaching.

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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. What can you do?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

Hiring and onboarding are an expensive undertaking, so companies are incentivized to train new sales reps quickly and ramp faster. But, many organizations tend to rely on these programs and miss the golden opportunity to continue upskilling sales reps throughout their time at the company. That’s where sales coaching comes in.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Chris committed to coaching to improve the skills of his sales team. is a district sales manager who just took my Focused Sales Coaching online program. He has done well implementing the program and is so close to being a great sales manager. You are making an impact with these sales managers!

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In this 2:56 video, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the need for sales managers to go beyond setting sales goals and to define learning goals for their teams. They share how organizations can align learning goals with sales goals and invest in training and resources to support their salespeople.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 24, 2021

These three questions help sales teams become more acclimated to the sales application process after sales training has been completed. The questions position a sales leader to ask one final question that drives greater acceptance of sales coaching and feedback.

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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. What can you do?

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve written more than 2,000 articles on my Understanding the Sales Force Blog and there are hundreds of other sales blogs. Some are written by sales experts. I am concerned about the subjects being curated for sales and sales leadership professionals. One or two are sales enablement topics.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 6, 2024

In this episode of the Sales Leadership Awakening Podcast, host Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley delve into mastering difficult conversations, stressing preparation and agreement on the next steps. Emotional regulation is an essential skill for sales managers to develop. Empathy is crucial in difficult conversations.

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Lessonly

MARCH 31, 2020

These days, it’s not unusual for front-line sales teams to be distributed across states, countries, and continents. . In many industries or companies where remote work and remote management have never been practiced, this is going to present enormous challenges. . How do you coach with impact when your team is spread across the globe?

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