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Effective Sales Management Is Emotion Management

Women Sales Pros

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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A Look Back at the Top 15 Sales Stories from 2019

Miller Heiman Group

Over the course of this year, our blog took sales and services on a journey, with stories about practical challenges in growing prospects, advice for sales leaders anticipating a recession, conversations with major sales influencers like Neil Rackham and much more. Here’s how to win over the boardroom.

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2 Proven Strategies for Duplicating Your High Sales Performers

Allego

Today’s post is by Colleen Stanley, President of SalesLeadership , a sales development firm. She is the creator of the Ei Selling System ®, a powerful sales and management training program that integrates emotional intelligence skills with consultative selling skills. It’s not impossible.

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Perseverance, Resiliency and Revenues

Women Sales Pros

One reason is that the new selling environment is more difficult than the salesperson’s previous one. Many years ago, a prospect, now a client, told her story of a bad hire. The salesperson’s prior successful sales experience was selling for a well-branded company. But remember to interview for sales resiliency.

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Is it Time to “Argo” Your Sales Team?

Women Sales Pros

So, what does this have to do with sales development? How many sales managers have watched a salesperson conduct a role play, one where he or she did a really great job of executing the right selling skills? Prior to starting Sales Leadership, she was vice president of sales for Varsity Spirit Corporation.

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What the Challenger Sale Gets Wrong about Customer Relationships

Miller Heiman Group

The Challenger Sale—popularized in 2011 by the book of the same name—posits that consultative selling is dead. Consultative selling is not dead, as Challenger argues. The Challenger Sale describes relationship building as a “losing approach” for “selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions.”

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Mapping The Sales Process: 7 Steps For Success

InsideSales.com

Before we get into mapping the sales process steps, let’s first determine what it is exactly. Sales process basically refers to the steps sales professionals follow from prospecting to closing a deal with a customer. It guides the decision-making process of the sales team from the sales manager down to the sales reps.