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Which Hurts Salespeople More: A Lack of Confidence or Poor Selling Skills?

The Sales Hunter

When this is your mental state, regardless of your selling skills, you will never be effective. This is where the team sport of selling comes into play. The sales manager must play a key role in this area by displaying confidence in their salespeople. Give me a person with great selling skills and I’ll say, “fine.”

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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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Weekly Sales Enablement News Roundup – August 23, 2019

Showpad

Supercharge Sales Development Goals with Microlearning. Microlearning can help to fill gaps in selling skills and provide bite-sized, on-demand training content for reps on the go. 7 Step Blueprint to Peak Performing Sales Teams. Get more information in this piece from Forbes.

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What Sales Managers Need to Know to Support Channel Sellers

Miller Heiman Group

Today we feature a blog by Michael DeRosa, the director of professional development at Travelers Insurance, and one of our 2019 Miller Heiman Group Icons. Channel selling is a different breed of selling from direct sales. Use Sales Training to Differentiate in a Crowded Market. It’s a win-win.

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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? The salesperson stumbled, bumbled and secretly wished a New York power outage would end the sales call.

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Perseverance, Resiliency and Revenues

Women Sales Pros

The salesperson’s prior successful sales experience involved selling a need-to-have product, one where deadlines – not just great selling skills — sometimes drove the decision. My client sold high-end management consulting and advisory services, which often get put into the nice-to-have, no-deadlines bucket.

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Adapting Your Sales Enablement Strategy to 2020 Realities

Sell Integrity

So then what should sales enablement strategy mean, particularly now, and how can it help your sales team deal with the specific challenges of this current selling environment? Sales Enablement Strategy: 2020 vs. 2019. The Sales Manager as Coach. What a difference a few months makes.