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4 Differences Between Sales Coaching and Feedback

Hubspot Sales

In the past, sales managers often saw sales coaching as a means of correcting negative behaviors by providing real-time performance feedback. Unfortunately, this feedback often doesn't result in significant behavior change from the sales representative. Sales Feedback Benefits 1.

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Sales managers – it’s time to assess your performance and adapt!

Sales Training Connection

Sales managers. A few years ago we published a blog on the importance of sales managers assessing their prior year’s performance and incorporating the results of that self-assessment into their plans for the new year. A good starting point is to reflect on their past performance as a sales manager.

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10 questions to help sales managers assess their performance and adapt! – An STC Classic

Sales Training Connection

The same is true of sales managers. If you believe front-line sales managers are the key to a team’s sales success – and we do – the end of Q1 is a good time to look at what’s working, what isn’t working and why. A good starting point is to reflect on their performance as a sales manager.

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Hiring High Performance Sales Teams #1 of 2

Your Sales Management Guru

That adds expense, disrupts your sales team and, potentially, creates a customer service disaster. As Harvey Mackay says, “The worst mistake a manager can make, especially a sales manager, is to make a bad hire. That’s why I recommend that sales leaders spend 15 to 20 percent of their time in “recruiting mode.”

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How to write a monthly sales report to improve sales performance

PandaDoc

After you’ve brushed up on monthly sales report criteria, you can take your reporting software a step further. Sales performance data from any time period can be an extremely powerful reporting tool. We will dive into how sales managers can leverage performance reports that help them analyze and improve their sales team’s performance.

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An Open Letter to Social Sellers Everywhere

Tony Hughes

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. A one size fits all approach simply won't work.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. What is your best piece of career advice for women in sales? I currently manage a team of 15 SDRs in 5 locations.

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