Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 1, 2024

And although I’m beginning by referencing the sermon, this is not an article about Religion. As someone who for thirty-eight years has led a global sales consultancy specializing in sales, sales management and sales leadership training, I can use the same words to describe people “who belong” to the sales profession.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

The individual and the manager jointly own training. ARTICLE In the world of sales leadership, one fundamental truth cannot be ignored: the people who make or break a team’s success. As a sales leader, you must ensure your team has the necessary training, coaching , and resources to excel.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

The individual and the manager jointly own training. ARTICLE In the world of sales leadership, one fundamental truth cannot be ignored: the people who make or break a team’s success. As a sales leader, you must ensure your team has the necessary training, coaching , and resources to excel.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 20, 2024

The interactive podbook below contains videos, audio, articles, summaries, transcripts, and YouTube shorts from this podcast episode. In this thought leadership article, we will explore Margo Edris, Regional Vice President of Sales at Salesforce, ‘s insights on how to bridge the knowing-doing gap in sales leadership.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 20, 2019

Second line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. By doing these basics well you will consistently crush your sales objectives. If you have had no training in the last 2 years on how to coach, I suggest you find a way to brush up on your coaching skills. That’s right.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 27, 2012

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. 5 Sales Training Tips for Sales Managers AND Salespeople. The success you have in sales is dependent on your level of confidence. FREE Resources. Negotiation.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Now the economy is growing again and you are looking to hire more sales talent for your team. The bad news is your sales managers have maxed out their bandwidth with their current responsibilities and daily activities. This leaves you with a critical decision regarding how to ramp up the new sales hires.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you are a new sales manager, building trust with your sales team is your first challenge. Without trust, progress will be slowed and time is a luxury few new sales managers have. Trust is the foundation for building strong teams, creating a positive work environment, and producing winning results.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 6, 2024

Emotional regulation is an essential skill for sales managers to develop. Managing your emotions during difficult conversations can help prevent them from escalating into arguments. The interactive podbook below contains videos, audio, articles, summaries, transcripts, and YouTube shorts from this podcast episode.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? Many organizations’ sales training has grown stale by relying on old-school tactics, like on-site boot camps and long-winded presentations, causing information overload for new reps.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

Add in an emphasis on skills improvement through ongoing coaching, and you’ll see how a sales coach can positively impact a company’s bottom line. A good coach knows how to communicate, motivate and personalize each sales associate’s training, so the sales team repeatedly delivers results. What is a sales coach?

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Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2024

He shares insights on managing high-performing sales reps, emphasizing the need to understand their drivers and view their challenges as positive. Emotional intelligence and maturity are crucial for sales managers to lead and communicate with diverse teams effectively. They have different drivers and motivations.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 19, 2022

Congratulations, you are now a sales manager. Earning the title of sales manager is an important step in your sales career, regardless of the size of your sales team. There is plenty that new sales managers need to learn on their journey to become a sales leader. Trust is reciprocal.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Empathy allows sales leaders to understand their team members’ perspectives and effectively communicate with them, while assertiveness ensures that expectations are set and execution is achieved. Summary Video Article: Title: “Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills for Sales Leaders.”

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 13, 2024

Empathy allows sales leaders to understand their team members’ perspectives and effectively communicate with them, while assertiveness ensures that expectations are set and execution is achieved. Summary Video Article: Title: “Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills for Sales Leaders.”

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 19, 2023

That Is The Question Here is what the data shows: Only 14% are spending enough time coaching* Only 7% are effectively sales coaching* Less than 1% are doing the right kind of coaching and debriefing* Only 68% of sales managers say they spend up to 60 minutes individually coaching their sales reps each week.^.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well. Time-Bound.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 20, 2024

In this article, Margo Edris delves into her winning strategy for coaching conversations, stressing the significance of meticulous preparation. She shares practical tips on time management, utilizing short meetings and communication tools to optimize efficiency and collaboration within her team.

Sales Leadership 156

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Steven Rosen

MAY 20, 2024

In this article, Margo Edris delves into her winning strategy for coaching conversations, stressing the significance of meticulous preparation. She shares practical tips on time management, utilizing short meetings and communication tools to optimize efficiency and collaboration within her team.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 25, 2022

If you are in sales, you likely see yourself as a leader. If you are a sales manager, you must be a leader. But if sales management is a new role for you, it can feel like you are swimming upstream. First Rule of Sales Leadership: Know Your Purpose . What is that purpose of a new sales manager?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This post is about how CEOs should invest in sales managers to improve revenue growth in 2013. As part of our annual Q3 Research Tour, SBI surveyed over 10,000 sales reps. As part of our annual Q3 Research Tour, SBI surveyed over 10,000 sales reps. Reps crave training from their managers.

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MEDDIC

APRIL 7, 2023

Sales leaders are usually very aware of the benefits of sales training and coaching in general. Sales leaders should not sacrifice the Sales Training & Coaching budget. Maintaining or increasing your investment in coaching and training during a downturn can pay dividends.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 6, 2024

In this 2:42 video, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley delve into the vital role of preparation in mastering difficult conversations with sales representatives. They stress the importance of sales managers dedicating time to pre-call planning, ensuring productive discussions.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 31, 2013

Sales Training Article: Sales Mentoring. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of nokhoog_buchachon at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Like many salespeople, I was fortunate to have a mentor at the start of my sales career began.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s that sales representatives are one of the toughest positions to hire for. The demand for sales reps is one of the highest of any job. But you can train your HR team to overcome these hurdles. Sales courses are largely absent from college curricula. You should also involve the sales managers of each department.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Sales Training Article: What Does Your Company Do? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Chaiwat at FreeDigitalPhotos.net If you ask a seller what their company does, what percentage answers the question in 15 seconds or less?

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InsideSales.com

JULY 3, 2020

For a Sales Representative, climbing the corporate ladder begins with a promotion to Sales Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to be recognized by senior management and develop your career options. Below we have outlined 6 of the pitfalls and benefits of a good Sales Manager. How Sales Manager Succeed.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 4, 2022

The secret to maximizing sales training is simple. In this article, we will outline how organizations can maximize their sales training to increase performance, prevent failure, and maximize their sales training investment. . Plan Sales Training Strategically. Who should be trained?

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

What is a Sales Manager. A sales manager is a person that’s responsible for building, leading, and managing a sales team within an organization. . A sales manager will work closely with managers of other departments, as well as communicate with prospects and customers on a regular or semi-regular basis.

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Sales Hacker Training

AUGUST 28, 2019

For many companies, the ramp-up time for new sales professionals typically is 6 months or more, but inside sales has changed. Sales automation tools like email and dialing technology have turned SDRs into revenue-generating machines. Tools training. PowerPoint slides from your product training. Sales contests.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 1, 2018

The Job of a Sales Manager: What It Is and What It Is Not. This is an article for people who hire sales managers. It’s an article about the pure role of sales manager – a person who does not handle accounts personally but does supervise direct reports (called salespeople) whose primary function is to sell.

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Pipeliner

JULY 8, 2018

The Digital Era of Sales Management. “If This digital era of sales management will dwarf what’s occurred in the information era and the value of the Internet today. Sales management has been impacted by the onset of the digital era, but not always in the ways that people think. Big impact?

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Steven Rosen

MAY 24, 2024

In this article, Rob Ulsh , VP of Dealer and International Sales for Great Dane, delves into AI’s profound impact on the sales landscape and how Great Dane has strategically incorporated this technology to propel its sales initiatives forward. In the sales profession, AI is seen as both a threat and an opportunity.

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