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Show, Don’t Tell: 5 Effective Ways to Coach Your Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Management

From here, most well-meaning sales managers pivot into the helpful, inspiring part of the conversation, discussing the need to increase activity, generate more proposals, ask for the sale, and increase the closing ratio. Let’s be honest: Reaching positive results while coaching salespeople isn’t instantly gratifying or easy.

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How to create a coaching culture in your organization

BrainShark

If you’re trying to maximize sales rep performance and drive results, coaching should be an essential part of your strategy. CSO Insights reported that sales coaching has had the greatest impact on win rates and quota attainment over the span of five years. Let’s not think that coaching is a natural skill for our managers.

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Sales Communication Evaluation – Score Your Team

criteria for success

Do your salespeople reach out to you for coaching and help with brainstorming and role practicing sales scenarios? Do your salespeople provide constructive feedback to the marketing team on the tools they are given? Do your salespeople provide constructive feedback to the marketing team on the tools they are given?

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The Best Way to Sell Is With a Story

Sales and Marketing Management

Nearmap, the company I work for, captures, manages and delivers high-resolution aerial imagery to engineering and construction firms, governments, property and real estate companies, solar installers, telecoms, and others. That line of storytelling works well to help close a solar installer, but might be lost on a construction company.

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Challenger Sales Model: The What, Why and How

Mindtickle

Proposed by Brent Adamson and Matthew Dixon in “The Challenger Sale,” this approach is based on the personalities of your sales team. Present disruptive ideas as helpful and constructive. Provide feedback through coaching and ongoing training to help turn every rep into an effective challenger.

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Hiring Best Practice: Test Before You Offer

SBI Growth

Interviews with the head coach and coordinators give positive signs. It follows the format of your typical sales proposal. Presentation - the candidate presents the proposal to a Review Panel that consists of the hiring manager, HR and an objective 3rd party. Execution is the missing ingredient in new talent assessment.

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Is Your Sales Training Tethered to the Stone Age?

Increase Sales

Sales Training Coaching Tip: Refrain from using the “why” word by restating “why” questions into “what” questions until you are 100% absolutely convinced you have a very solid relationship. It did not increase sales.

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