Steven Rosen

MARCH 1, 2023

Executive Coaching Pumps You Up! Sales leaders need to remember that they too, must regularly upgrade their leadership skills. The most effective ways are by networking with a peer who faces similar challenges and by enrolling in an executive coaching program. The post Executive Coaching Pumps You Up!

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Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

Coaching salespeople is not a new idea. It’s true that most sales professionals improve with experience, but if you can provide feedback and personalized goals, it’s possible to accelerate the learning process and get your sellers engaging with prospects faster. This is the time-tested practice of sales coaching.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

Especially in sales where company messaging and selling points may be evolving rapidly, without consistent training and reinforcement, sales training can be difficult for a rep to apply. . That’s where sales coaching comes in. Provide Managers Better Visibility. Turnover is notoriously high in sales roles.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 7, 2023

Breaking Through Resistance: Coaching Tenured Salespeople One of the most frequent challenges I hear from sales leaders is coaching tenured salespeople who consistently deliver their sales numbers but are resistant to coaching. The question becomes what to do with them.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 23, 2012

Sales coaching is the management No. 1 activity that drives sales performance. The only problem is that managers have not been taught how to effectively coach. Coaching is a skill that takes time to perfect and unless effectively coached or trained managers can make all types of blunders.

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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. Search less.

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criteria for success

JULY 15, 2021

As sales managers, we’ve all been told we need to coach our teams. But what value are you adding if you’re consistently coaching someone who’s not showing improvement? Is there any value to add through coaching? Here are 5 places you might find your salespeople, and tips for coaching them at each level.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2013

Sales VPs need to train their Sales Managers differently. Coaching sales people has changed. Customers are self-directing their buying behavior in new ways. This requires different coaching techniques. Gone are the days riding with a rep on numerous calls to one customer.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 13, 2012

The further you move in the sales organization you begin to realise that you have less impact on driving sales. Sales executive s become further removed from the customer and the day to day management of the business. The higher up you go the fewer levers you have at your disposal to impact sales.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 23, 2024

In business, it’s often assumed that a person who excels as a sales rep will also be successful as a sales manager. As such, top sales reps are often promoted to sales managers and left to find their way into their new roles. What is sales management training? This approach simply doesn’t work.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 24, 2024

For their example, the author used salespeople who were promoted to sales managers based on their sales performance, but not because they had any specific skills or capabilities to be effective sales managers. Their sales management performance was poor. Everyone is to blame and people are fickle.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As I always say, “Good selling is good selling,” but there are some changes we all need to make to continue to bring in new business and more business from existing customers. Although training can certainly help, I believe coaching is the most important way to help salespeople make the needed changes. . Click To Tweet.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I spend a lot of time with sales managers, at all levels. Too often, I hear the lament, “I don’t have the time to coach!” Endless forecast and pipeline discussions–usually between managers and not with people. And every once in a while, they see a customer with their sales people.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2023

The sustained growth that can only come from retaining and expanding your customer base relies on sales reps who consistently build genuine relationships with customers. That work starts with determining where a customer is today, understanding where they’re going in the future, and seeing how you can help them bridge the gap.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 10, 2021

Invest in your sales managers to unlock the potential in your sales organization and turn that performance into sustainable performance As the leader of your organization, the next 6 months will prove to be more pressure-filled than you may have experienced in years. Invest in your sales managers.

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Keith Rosen

APRIL 17, 2019

There are many shared, best practices between sales coaching and selling. If the evolution of selling is coaching vs. closing customers, this also applies to how you manage and develop your team. Here’s how to break free of the most toxic of coaching tactics that kills team productivity and trust.

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Sell Integrity

JUNE 23, 2020

All tech companies want to build a world-class culture, and front-line managers play a pivotal role. What kind of conversations are your front-line managers having with their customer-facing teams? With sales booming, several top salespeople were promoted to manager roles, and the expectations were high.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 30, 2018

Davis Excellent sales managers aren’t made overnight. As a manager, you’re always learning and growing along with your sales team. Every team member has a unique reaction to your management style, and it takes a great manager to navigate all those unique situations and relationships. Author: Kevin F.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In the past, sales managers often saw sales coaching as a means of correcting negative behaviors by providing real-time performance feedback. Unfortunately, this feedback often doesn't result in significant behavior change from the sales representative. Feedback Benefits What is coaching? What is feedback?

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Sales Readiness Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

When navigating a large, complex sales opportunity, one of the most important relationships a sales rep can cultivate is the "customer coach.".

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Do you know how effective your sales managers are? Are you a highly effective sales coach? The Corporate Executive Board (CEB) Executive found: Sales manager coaching is the #1 activity that drives sales performance and develops great sales reps. Six Dimensions of Effective Coaching.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2013

Sales Management must spend 50% of their time coaching salespeople like this: An enormous part of developing salespeople these days is helping them to differentiate themselves from your competitors. Effectively applying a consultative sales process helps to accomplish this. Coaching – Step 1.

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Emissary

AUGUST 7, 2023

As the lynchpin of the sales organization, leaders are the connection between sellers, corporate and customers. But when teams are reduced, budgets are slashed, and demands rise, where should managers concentrate their scarce resources? Yet, due to internal budget cuts, managers get even less organizational support than before.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 27, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 3 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. Hire the right sales managers. This doesn’t happen by accident.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Everyone needs coaching. I’ve spent a lot of time in this blog talking about coaching as key to driving performance in sales people. I’ve written extensively about directive and non-directive coaching–focusing on non-directive as the most impactful in helping sales people learn and grow.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 14, 2014

You are a strong sales manager and you know your business, your customers and your reps. I don’t know any sales manager who plans to fail, but some fail to plan. The purpose of this article is to help you focus on the 3 sales management secrets that are going to give you the success you desire.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

These efforts frequently end up with disappointing results, however, because most companies neglect the most powerful lever in their arsenal: their frontline, field-level sales managers who directly coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis. In this study, top managers brought in an average $3.5

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 21, 2023

Not long ago, I wrote about Coaching Is A Language. Since writing it, I’ve had a lot of interesting conversations–and workshops on the language of coaching. We’ve always treated coaching as a discreet event and not a method of communicating. The language of coaching focuses on learning versus telling.

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Revegy

APRIL 23, 2024

Limited budgets…more educated and demanding buyers…hybrid and remote reps…digital buying…personalized sales approaches…partner ecosystem shifts…and don’t get us started on introducing AI!

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We discussed the huge impact emotions and coaching have on sales teams. Sales Leaders Set the Tone John and I talked about how sales managers shape team engagement and performance. Many sales leaders get promoted for sales skills without leadership training. Here are some top takeaways.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2014

Janet is an experienced and successful district sales manager who could work in any industry and for any company. Janet is performance-driven, a very good coach and a people person. Each month Janet is put to the test with different sales reps she must coach to success. Are you an effective coach?

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 22, 2024

Over the past thirty-nine years, I have seen this at so many companies and with executives who believed they could apply DIY to any or all of the following ten functions: Evaluating their sales team – it is usually biased and limited to what they recognize as good.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 16, 2023

We all know the challenges of a sales career. And many know the difficulties of management. That’s what makes the sales manager position unique. Sales managers, however, not only work with their teams. They also work with other mid- and high-level managers. The same for sales managers.

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Keith Rosen

AUGUST 25, 2020

Keith Rosen · TMBO Talks on Selling, Prospecting and Coaching Customers With the NBA and WNBA – Part 2. Join me for part two of this three-part sales leadership series with the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the talented leaders of the NBA and WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association).

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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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