Nutshell

MARCH 31, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to stay up to date with the latest sales trends, keep up with your sales skills and knowledge, and continually build your management and leadership expertise. In this post, we’ll share some of our favorite resources for sales managers. Here are some of our favorites.

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CommercialTribe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Whether you are learning to play an instrument or a sport, your learning curve accelerates by how frequently you practice that skill and coaching is no different. Managers who consistently coach are better coaches…not because they necessarily were built that way but because they practiced the craft consistently and got better.

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Allego

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the ever-evolving realm of B2B sales , the landscape of buyer behavior has undergone a radical transformation, posing fresh challenges for sales teams and their sales enablement counterparts. As a result, organizations must have innovative sales enablement strategies that resonate with today’s B2B buyers.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 14, 2019

Sales managers influence what salespeople sell, where they sell, who they sell to and even how they sell. These factors make the sales manager role one of the most influential and demanding jobs in any company engaged in complex B2B sales. How many direct reports do sales managers have in your company?

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Topline Leadership

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The questions sales managers ask their salespeople have an effect on the questions salespeople ask their customers. If you want your salespeople to ask better questions of customers – you the sales manager need to ask better questions of your salespeople! Here are my five favorite questions to ask of a B2B salesperson.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Today’s B2B buyers are savvier, more informed, and have access to several options at their fingertips. 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.

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CommercialTribe

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Welcome to part three in our series on data-driven sales coaching, aimed at arming sales leaders with the advice they need to effectively direct coaching efforts and realize a strong ROI. This was undeniably a coaching moment. So, where was her frontline sales manager? The CFO’s eyes glaze over.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Managers can support, coach, and provide resources, but ultimately, it’s up to the individual to perform. “Performance is owned by the individual, not the manager.” ” – Steven Rosen “Good leaders, sales leaders, they’re hyper-responsible.”

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Managers can support, coach, and provide resources, but ultimately, it’s up to the individual to perform. “Performance is owned by the individual, not the manager.” ” – Steven Rosen “Good leaders, sales leaders, they’re hyper-responsible.”

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I read an article about how to be a successful sales manager. One of the pieces of “insight” was to manage and coach by results versus micromanaging or counting activities. If your sales cycle is very short–a few meetings over a few days, that may not be a problem. Activity metrics are important.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Revenue teams will get the insights they need for strategic onboarding and coaching opportunities. The entire organization can make better decisions by surfacing insights and analytics that you would only get if you sat in on every sales or customer success call. . Fast-Track Sales Enablement. Simplify coaching.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 27, 2016

At the start of the new year, I wrote about my team trying to turn the corner from “Account Management” to “Customer Success”. Coaching is absolutely clutch. Here are three things we’re trying right now at DiscoverOrg to root down a coaching culture. Coaching at the Call Level. Just-in-time coaching, in other words.

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 17, 2020

Instead, they spend years struggling, although their results could be better with training, development, and coaching. The reason I have always hired coaches is that they can very quickly and effectively show me what I don’t know that I don’t know. No more pushy sales tactics. You need to make sales.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 18, 2014

We’ve written several blogs on sales coaching. Second, most people agree that coaching is a must-do for developing a superior sales team. Over the last 30 years we have designed numerous coaching programs for companies engaged in large B2B sales. Training Sales Managers to Coach.

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Xvoyant

JULY 2, 2020

I’ve often used the analogy that B2B enterprise sales professionals are the Olympic athletes of the corporate world. That said, try putting them in a front line B2B sales role focused on the complex sale at the enterprise level and see how that works out for you. Are we coaching effectively? Prospecting.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 27, 2013

Sales Coaching. We’ve written several blogs on sales coaching. Second, most people agree that coaching is a must-do for developing a superior sales team. Over the last 30 years we have designed numerous coaching programs for companies engaged in large B2B sales.

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Openview

JANUARY 18, 2018

Every sales manager wants their team to close bigger deals. How much would revenue go up if your entire team was closing deals like your best sales rep? Let’s talk about how to become the manager of a sales team where every rep performs at their absolute best. Now it’s time to put your coaching plan into action.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We have suspected, for years, that B2B buyers make purchase decisions based on how they feel, rationalizing the decision with data supporting those decisions. ” If what we are seeing from B2B buyers is simply human response and behavior, then the same observations apply to everyone in our organizations.

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Showpad

JANUARY 15, 2021

As Forbes notes, there’s no “if” or “when” to B2B sales transformation anymore. After the events of Q1 2020 — and the year overall — sales transformation is no longer an option. The phrase “sales transformation” has been discussed before. Make full use of existing solutions.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 25, 2016

Take it from us – our sales and sales development functions are constantly evolving as we look to accelerate our record growth rates over the past few years. So, how can you successfully coach a team for growth? To scale sales and marketing teams, we must learn to do more with less, and time is the most precious commodity.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 29, 2021

Zack Gutin is the President and Founder of ThinkAlike Media, helping B2B companies in their outreach. In B2B sales, it is all about consensus. B2B can have the same conversational but not too overwhelming email marketing strategy as B2C. It offers a huge opportunity for international outreach and sales growth.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Helen Fanucci, a sales veteran with over 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry and author of “Love Your Team: A Survival Guide for Sales Managers in a Hybrid World,” talks about the importance of collaboration in sales. She explores the challenges of building effective collaboration within sales teams.

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Pointclear

APRIL 4, 2013

Staying current on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be daunting, especially in the the digital space. PointClear''s staff and Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from our digital circles about B2B sales. Sales Coaching - The Use and Abuse of Modeling.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Developing the necessary soft skills, such as coachability and resiliency, is crucial for success in a fast-changing sales environment. Evaluating the skills needed for future success and providing ongoing coaching and training are essential for building a high-performing sales team. “The world is moving faster.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In this session, we’ll explain how it’s different from buyer intent data and how frontline sales managers are using it to coach outbound sales teams to new heights. The post Buyer Sentiment: How to Use the Newest Data Source Available to B2B Sales Teams appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 12, 2011

building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). close more sales (21). coaching (25). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). Sales Activity (1).

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 30, 2012

building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). close more sales (21). coaching (25). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). Sales Activity (1).

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SalesFuel

APRIL 2, 2024

To maintain team dynamics and deal flow, managers must actively help BDRs succeed in the new B2B marketplace. Managers can help sales reps who are waiting for great leads to be passed along by the BDR team. Recent research, including our own , points to changed buyer behavior in the B2B process. In 2024, 39.3%

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 7, 2014

Sales Managers. I was talking with a new B2B sales manager about sales coaching. She was a super star as a sales rep and promoted to a sales manager just a couple of months ago. As a new sales manager , she was fortunate enough to inherit a young but very talented sales team.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 28, 2019

Love the Patriots or hate ‘em , you can’t deny that Bill Belichick is one of the most effective coaches in football history. Belichick is the only NFL head coach with five Super Bowl victories, and under his direction the Pats have won nine AFC championship titles (beating my Colts in a number of those games).

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). close more sales (21). coaching (25). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). Sales Activity (1).

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Showpad

APRIL 2, 2021

Like any skill, perfecting your approach to selling requires practice, feedback and careful coaching. Sales managers and business leaders know and appreciate this fact, so sales coaching is often a central component of training new hires and providing ongoing support for long-time agents.

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

And this also means a lot of unnecessary sales mistakes. Sales coaching is the simplest solution to insuring the success of those new to sales. Yesterday I spoke to someone who was new to sales within the real estate industry. Sales Coaching Solution – Understanding the sales process is key to sales success.

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MEDDIC

MAY 5, 2020

Inside Sales, B2B, any US city. There is nothing more fulfilling than succeeding the Sales Job at a Sales School! In just 2 years of existence, MEDDIC Academy has trained thousands of Sales Executives, and is expanding now with a 3 digits growth rate. We sell SALES TRAINING; online courses and in-person sessions.

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CommercialTribe

JULY 28, 2020

No matter what you call it — “the new normal” or “the next normal”— the COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic shifts in the B2B sales landscape, and many organizations are struggling to adapt. Read on to learn WHERE frontline sales managers should focus their attention to increase sales performance.

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Sales Result

JANUARY 30, 2019

Hi Does Your Sales Leadership Team Provide consistent Coaching & Mentoring For Your Sales Team?

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SBI

MAY 16, 2019

to Improve Sales Coaching. Membrain , the Sales Enablement CRM company, and Refract.ai, the UK-based Sales Conversations Intelligence company, have partnered up to improve sales coaching for B2B sales teams. In sales, the words used, phrases chosen, questions asked all impact on success.

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