Showpad

APRIL 9, 2020

Sales managers are tasked with not only leading their teams, but providing them with all the resources and support they need to develop trust with buyers and shorten sales cycles. Coaching is more of a challenge today, with sales reps often working remotely from their home offices. What is sales coaching?

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Sales Coaching Coaching Face-to-face Sales Enablement 111

Connect2Sell

JANUARY 23, 2019

Being memorable in sales translates into making more sales. This 12-part series on how to be a memorable salesperson includes specific ways you can make yourself stand out to buyers. Each post in this CONNECT2Sell series includes research from a study with 530 B2B buyers and in-field observations from a sales coach.

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BrainShark

JULY 4, 2023

Coaching sales reps is vital, and if you aren’t currently doing it, good news – getting started can make a world of difference for your bottom line. Challenges for organizations with untrained or undertrained reps include missed quotas, inconsistent messaging, and lack of sales readiness. What is sales coaching?

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Highspot

JUNE 11, 2024

B2B sales reps forget 87% of what they learn within 30 days of training. No matter how solid your sales training program is, it won’t make a lasting impact without coaching. The problem is, many organizations still don’t know what good sales coaching looks like.

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Nimble - Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Discover the power of transforming your sales through the Buyer First approach as Carole Mahoney, a seasoned sales professional, unveils industry secrets and strategies featured in her book.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2024

Earlier this week, I was interviewed by John Radkins, for his Sales Machine Blog, and he asked me to explain sales process for those who don’t want to be restricted by sales process. Construction: A formal, staged, milestone-centric, buyer-focused sequence of events. A journey is planned.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

There’s no denying the impact effective sales coaching has on a business. According to Gallup, those who master coaching will see: 50% lower employee turnover. In addition, Bersin and Associates found coaching has a 1.5 Top 3 Coaching Challenges—and Solutions. 38% higher employee productivity.

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Allego

MARCH 17, 2022

Increasingly, software includes artificial intelligence (AI) , and sales tools are right along with them. In fact, Jim Lundy, lead analyst at Aragon Research, recently declared: 2022 is the year AI comes to the sales enablement arena. Amand, The 2022 Guide to Intelligent Sales Enablement. Conduct Digital Ride-Alongs.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

It might not come as a surprise that 57% of sales reps are expected to miss their quotas in 2021. Sellers often can’t explain why deals don’t work out, leaving your sales managers in the dark. Conversation intelligence solutions offer invaluable support to sales managers. Pre-qualification call. Discovery call.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

You may not feel like you’ve got time in your busy schedule to regularly coach every individual sales rep, but in reality, those who make the time to coach will reap the rewards in the form of improved performance, more closed deals, and greater generated revenue. Best sales coaching techniques to optimize your time.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 21, 2020

But the need for sales organizations to change is nothing new; it’s just more urgent now. Even before the pandemic arose, we lived in a world where buyers are generally better at buying than sellers are at selling. 70% of buyers wait until after they’ve chosen a solution before engaging a seller. Define a Sales Methodology.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Only about one-quarter of sales leaders believe that their managers effectively coach and develop their sellers. In part, that’s because sales managers spend less time coaching—14%—than they do on selling, forecasting and administrative tasks, according to our latest study, 2020 Trends in Sales Management.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Find out more about how to sell to multiple decision makers in my video below: You can’t be in sales long before dealing w ith this issue. First, you get answers to key information during a non-threatening period of the sales process. Sure, you can ask to be part of the discussion with the new buyer. It’s not hard.

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Highspot

MAY 8, 2020

In the world of business-to-business sales, coaches are just as essential to ensuring reps have the skills they need to close deals with confidence. Why is sales coaching important? How do you coach and develop a sales team? Top sales coaching techniques. What makes a sales coach great?

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MTD Sales Training

JUNE 17, 2014

“Build the value” You’ve heard it a million times before in every sales book you read, every sales coaching session you’ve had with your manager and probably countless times from me also! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Why sales coaching matters — a few key points Knowledge retention Sales coaching activities add an interactive element to learning and are an excellent way to ensure knowledge retention and evaluate whether reps can “play back” what they learned in their training. Problems with sales coaching aka what NOT to do 1.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Scale Hiring 62

Allego

MARCH 15, 2022

If sellers want to connect with today’s buyers, their interactions with them must be hyper-personalized. She also helps the market understand the increasingly important role new technology plays in enabling better experiences for both buyers and sellers. How to Have Hyper-Personalized Conversations with Buyers.

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Allego

MARCH 18, 2021

Virtual selling has turned the sales industry upside down—and the effects will be felt for years to come. New Allego research shows that 62% of sales professionals say they’ve lost a deal because they couldn’t meet in-person with a buyer. Practice, role playing, call coaching, reinforcement are more difficult now.

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Sales Coaching Research Coaching Hiring 62

KO Advantage Group

DECEMBER 23, 2018

In my videos and here on the blog, I always speak from a sales coach perspective. This time, I want to talk about what it’s like to be the buyer. Like me, each buyer goes through three stages before reaching the purchasing decision, namely: awareness stage, consideration stage, and decision stage. Come talk to us.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 11, 2021

We’re thrilled to announce that Gong has been rated the leader in G2’s Winter 2021 awards for the categories of Conversation Intelligence and Sales Coaching , as well as the Enterprise leader for both Sales Coaching and Best Relationship (for Conversation Intelligence). Sales Coaching. Best Usability.

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Engaging buyers in an effective way requires sales professionals having access to the right content and messaging for their targeted buyer roles and their business challenges. Buyer engagement is all about delivering an interactive, impactful and inspiring experience for buyers.

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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. Today, the landscape has changed.

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Sales Training Connection

MAY 7, 2014

Sales Coaching Challenge. Regarding how they buy, a contradiction has emerged that deserves a place on the sales coaching priority list. Let’s take a look at the contradiction and then explore some best practices managers can use to coach their sales teams to deal with the consequences.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 31, 2013

It may seem obvious that you would talk to a sales coach about closing more sales, but in fact there are many topics that clients talk with me about so I thought I’d share them. I will also share some basics when looking for a sales coach. After years of being in sales, I learn things from people every day.

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Chorus.ai

AUGUST 6, 2020

Jim Benton was joined by Shianne Sampson , VP of Sales & Customer Experience at PetDesk for this week’s Weekly Briefing to discuss the data behind sales coaching in this new normal. Diving right in, they addressed the overall productivity of sales teams. I think now coaching is the backbone of sales.”

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For many organizations, sales training and coaching are as linked as peanut butter and jelly. However, with the cost and logistics, most reps are lucky to receive sales training once a year, with many going much longer. In addition to effective coaching, this also functions as a team-budling exercise most reps enjoy.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 25, 2022

Effective sales coaching and skills development usually come down to one thing: time. But even though you were physically there, sales managers still couldn’t sit in on every meeting or call with each rep. But even though you were physically there, sales managers still couldn’t sit in on every meeting or call with each rep.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

It might not come as a surprise that 57% of sales reps are expected to miss their quotas in 2021. Sellers often can’t explain why deals don’t work out, leaving your sales managers in the dark. Conversation intelligence solutions offer invaluable support to sales managers. Pre-qualification call. Discovery call.

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Allego

MAY 21, 2024

Being in sales enablement these days can feel like neverending work. You’re constantly training and coaching sales reps, creating reinforcement learning, ensuring sellers have the right content, and helping them connect with customers and create personalized buying experiences. And why not?

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 4, 2022

Part 2: Coaching Your Team Post-Covid Recovery. In the pre-COVID days, sales managers would ride along with a sales rep for the day. The most significant impact of COVID on salespeople was the shift from face-to-face to virtual sales calls. This was a painful transition for many sales reps. Listening skills 5.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 28, 2017

What would happen to your ability to increase sales results if you just remembered three (3) words in all your interactions with sales prospects, sales leads, colleagues and clients? Do you possibly think you could change your sales results? Sales Coaching Tip: Feel. Sales Coaching Tip: Know.

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Sales Gravy

MAY 2, 2024

On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount sits down with sales coach Cheryl Parks to discuss why modern sales professionals need to shift from traditional selling to a more consultative and insightful approach that leverages business acumen, industry knowledge, and the right questions.

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Increase Sales

JULY 16, 2016

Sustainable sales success tips are all through the Internet. Yet in my sales training research very few sales programs to even books on selling recognize this important key fact – The Educated Buyer. Real Life Sales Experience. My goal is to have sustainable sales success. Let me explain.

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CommercialTribe

JULY 6, 2020

Agility has always been a key component of a successful sales strategy, and the current upheavals are only accelerating the rate of change for many sales organizations. In this post, we’ll dive into the first principle — the importance of WHO sales managers focus sales coaching effort on.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Sales coaching has one purpose and that is to make the sales person better. Coaching is about analyzing what a sales person is doing in order to enhance their skills and improve their capabilities. There are a million ways to coach and each sales leader has his or her own style.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 31, 2020

Today, it’s by George Brontén , CEO of Membrain, and a long time sales friend. George shines a light on the assumptions that hold your sales organization back As soon as you see the title you know why it caught my eye. Heal your organization and give your team what they need with sales enablement. Check it out here.

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