How Can We Make Our Reps More Coachable?
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APRIL 18, 2023
We know how important it is for sellers to be coachable. Coachability, after all, is one of the keys to identifying top performing sales professionals.
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APRIL 18, 2023
We know how important it is for sellers to be coachable. Coachability, after all, is one of the keys to identifying top performing sales professionals.
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FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The worst thing one can do in business is take anything for granted and get too comfortable. At the same time, I must admit that I was one of those caught a bit off-guard hearing about new AI tools, use cases, and potential within the future of work, and in our case, revenue generation.
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DECEMBER 27, 2022
I am fortunate to know best-selling author and “Father of Contact Marketing” Stu Heinecke. I met him when he was writing his first book, “How to Get a Meeting with Anyone” as I was asked to and was able to share one of my own strategies for getting my foot in a prospect’s door.
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MAY 24, 2022
In the B2B sales world, we’re in, I hear a lot about how things have changed.
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JUNE 15, 2020
When a great new sales leadership book emerges, I want to be one of the first ones to share it. When a fantastic book about emotional intelligence comes out – I want to shout it from the mountain tops. When a book with BOTH comes out – sales leadership AND emotional intelligence, I’m doing a happy dance.
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MAY 6, 2020
You have leveled out and adjusted to the new reality of selling today. Great job -- but what happens now?
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APRIL 21, 2020
Will all your sales team go back to working out of the office?
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APRIL 8, 2020
People follow people, not plans. Projections, plans, implementation strategies are all necessary and important for informing the people you lead, but don’t overlook the importance of providing insight on who they’re following.
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MARCH 31, 2020
Sports fans inherently know the importance of storytelling. Unless they’re the type who look at the score or the outcome… and nothing else. No highlights. No recaps. No interviews. No social media. No conversations with other fans.
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MARCH 29, 2020
You suddenly have an all-remote, WFH sales team(s). Now what? Learn from others who have been selling remotely already. Success leaves clues, remember?
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NOVEMBER 15, 2019
It is the time of year we traditionally think of a way of thanking a customer or referral partner, and we toy with whether to send a prospect some sort of a gift.
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MAY 17, 2019
You know what happens – great conversation with a future customer of yours, and then the conversation goes silent. Radio Silent. They don’t return your calls or emails – even if you had multiple interactions. What to do?
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MAY 3, 2019
We know of eleven factors that historically have shortened sales cycles, based on research done by Objective Management Group.
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MARCH 22, 2019
It may be too late for many with longer sales cycles, but if you do have business to bring to closure before the end of the quarter, these ideas might help.
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FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Positive and negative information is handled in different parts of our brains. Anything with a negative emotion tends to involve more thinking and this information is processed more heavily in our brain than positives.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Resource #1. Modern Sales Pros virtual Google group and in-person meetings. They are totally focused on peer knowledge sharing and whether virtual or in-person, you’ll learn from them.
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JANUARY 18, 2019
We all have the same number of hours in a week – 168, yet some of us get more done than others. Here is a quick look at how to be more productive – share your ideas with us on LinkedIn or Twitter.
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JANUARY 11, 2019
RESOURCE #1. Max Altshuler and Sales Hacker’s Ten Most Important Sales Trends that Will Define 2019 (and Predictions). RESOURCE #2. Sales Development Resources: The updated Tenbound blog , with webinars, nearly 100 podcasts, and more. Get an overview of all the resources in a video by David Dulany.
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DECEMBER 28, 2018
It is hard to believe that the new year is about to look right at us. Some in sales roles are pleased they hit quota this year and others (more than 57%) presumably did NOT make quota this year. No matter which camp you are in, January 1 brings a new quarter for all and a new year for most.
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DECEMBER 14, 2018
Here are 3 tips, 1 quote, and 1 resource to end your week. Hiring tip #1: Does your sales rep / BDR / SDR candidate have the DESIRE & the COMMITMENT necessary to succeed? Hiring tip #2 : Is your sales rep / BDR / SDR candidate TRAINABLE & COACHABLE - they are not the same!
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DECEMBER 7, 2018
Here are 3 tips, 1 quote, and 1 resource to end your week. Hiring tip #1: If you are looking to hire more women on your sales team, hold an event at your offices quarterly (or twice a year) and get the Women Sales Pros guide on how to do it to widen your recruitment pipeline.
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OCTOBER 23, 2018
We are into Q4 already for those working in a sales organization with a calendar year (Jan-Dec). If you’re not using a calendar year your year is probably just ending or will end shortly after the calendar year. You can participate in this too.
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AUGUST 24, 2018
If the whole, entire company supported revenue generation, how strong would your customer care or customer service team be? Would nothing ever slip through the cracks? If everyone supported revenue generation, how easily could we detect a disgruntled customer about to leave us?
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AUGUST 7, 2018
I love good data. Good data in professional sales means that there is a big enough sample group (thousands, not hundreds) and from diverse industries (not just SaaS which is much more tech savvy). I also love innovation and updating what used to work with what works better.
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JULY 23, 2018
We all have lessons we’ve learned in life as time has gone on. Certain people have influenced us. In the sales field, many of us have had mentors, peers, managers, leaders and sponsors who may have influenced us. In our homes we’ve had relatives and friends teaching us and guiding us.
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JUNE 18, 2018
After reading a recent post from Dave Kurlan about The Latest Data Shows that Sales Managers Are Even Worse Than I Thought made me want to immediately publish a plea to company leaders and heads of sales to enable sales managers to do more and better coaching. Using research from 9,000 sales managers and their sales teams, the findings are grim.
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APRIL 29, 2018
CLICK HERE to Play Video (or click on image above). When my company was re-branded, I wanted a name that represented my views and my life. At the time, my son had been a successful Division I college athlete and moved on as a professional hockey player. Not only had I raised one competitive athlete but we also provided a home-away-from-home in Seattle for players who played Major-Junior hockey in the Canadian Hockey League (CHL).
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MARCH 27, 2018
Whether you are new in your sales role or have been in sales for a while, it is easy to get wrapped in in the latest new sales tool that could help you, or that one magic bullet to specifically help YOU in your role.
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MARCH 8, 2018
Sales leaders tell us they have a good percentage of reps who are not pulling their weight. Not only are some of their reps not making quota, but they are not working hard. It seems in many cases that they have unmotivated (or de-motivated) reps.
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JANUARY 30, 2018
We walk away from sales opportunities every day - abandoned sales opportunities. You do it, I do it, and a few of us have the discipline to identify why our deal didn’t come to closure.
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JANUARY 25, 2018
Referrals in the sales world are the very best way to grow your sales book of business for many reasons. The first one is that if someone whom you respect refers you to work with someone else, nearly half the “work” in building trust has been done.
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
You worked hard through trial-and-error to create an introductory email that is worthy of a reply. But do you expect to really get one?
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AUGUST 8, 2017
One idea that can help sales reps is to always set a next action :
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AUGUST 1, 2017
Now is a GREAT time for you to make a plan to do MORE of the RIGHT activities. Right activities are activities that lead to more sales opportunities. This means LESS of the activity you might be doing that does nothing to lead you toward more revenue. Enough "busy work" - time to roll up your sleeves and dig in.
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JULY 24, 2017
My mantra in my early 20s as a single parent and a sales rep was “It takes work to be mediocre.” I was told that many times by one of our sales managers at the first technology company I sold for.
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JUNE 23, 2017
It IS almost Q3 and many people are behind in hitting their quotas. Over the years we have written about how distracted sellers get – and sales leaders do as well. We come up with ideas to help counter the slower pace of the first two months of Q3.
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JUNE 13, 2017
Lately a phrase has been making the rounds which is the perfect mantra for all of us in professional selling and leading sales: Don’t be a Know-it-All, be a Learn-it-All. Attending conferences and events last week in the Bay area, I heard this phrase more than a dozen times.
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MAY 22, 2017
One of the BEST ways to communicate with others is to be able to think on your feet. It’s called extemporaneous speaking. Yea, I know – big word. It is the ability to respond “in the moment” often without preparation to a buyer when they throw you a curve as they reply to you in a normal conversation.
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MAY 12, 2017
Are you getting regular referral business as a seller? I shared this story below about how I referred a hair stylist to a friend of mine and how that single referral gave her loyal clients for many years in addition to personal relationships that would be considered priceless.
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APRIL 20, 2017
Several main stage talks and numerous breakout sessions at the 2017 AA-ISP Leadership Conference referenced the many thousands of sales tools in existence and how confusing it can be for sales leadership. It is enough to make your head spin. While you may be using 3 or 4 or more of these tools, the average number of apps in a high growth sales development team tech stack is 5 (according to TOPO.
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APRIL 14, 2017
Al Martin was the best sales manager I ever had. He led by example and you could often see a split second of decision making before Al would give you an answer based on his very clear sense of right and wrong. Once Al and I went in person to a sales call. The executive we were to meet with was running late. Rather than sit and wait, Al (who was about 6’5”) stood up in the waiting area and slowly paced – occasionally checking his watch.
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MARCH 16, 2017
What sales competencies do the top sales professionals have - SDRs, BDRs, ADRs, account managers? Can sales people be built or are we born to sell? These questions fuel many discussions in board rooms around the world. It is a universal challenge to find the top sellers for your company’s sales team. But how to go about it?
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MARCH 8, 2017
On International Women’s Day #IWD2017 we wanted to help recognize some great women past and present who have served as mentors, role models, and women we simply want to give a shout out to in the field of professional selling. We are sharing two resources today.
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