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Great Sales Managers are Like Great Baseball Coaches Without the Screaming

Understanding the Sales Force

Speaking of baseball and bringing sales into the discussion, let's talk about coaching. When my son was home for winter break, I asked him to rank all of his baseball coaches, an exercise that he found quite interesting. He played 4 years for his #1 ranked coach. He played 4 years for his #1 ranked coach.

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Book Notes: The Sales Manager Survival Guide

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I just became much clearer on why this happens and what can be done about it, by reading just one section of David Brock’s book “The Sales Manager Survival Guide”. Per David Brock, a sales manager’s job is to be a coach. Being a top account executive, has almost nothing to do with coaching.

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SALES MANAGERS ARE STRUGGLING

Steven Rosen

I have said it before and I will say it again – SALES MANAGERS ARE STRUGGLING! Only 10-20% of Sales Managers are Crushing It! The rest are struggling to make their sales numbers. Where does your region fall in terms of sales to quota this year? For Sales Managers That Are Struggling.

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Pipeline Mastery: How the Best Coaches Convert Reluctance into Revenue

Steven Rosen

Yet, this reluctance can be transformed into proactive engagement with a focused coaching approach. In this article, we reveal how targeted coaching can mitigate the common aversion to prospecting and elevate it to a key strength within the sales arsenal, thereby bolstering the sales pipeline significantly.

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Better Sales Coaching: 7 Effective Sales Coaching Techniques

Zoominfo

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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6 Sales Role Play Exercises to Try with Your Reps

BrainShark

Sales role play exercises are one of the tried-and-true approaches that sales teams use to help reps practice and prepare for real-world buyer interactions. Now that many sales organizations are permanently adopting hybrid and remote work, there’s been a shift from in-person to virtual coaching sessions.

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3 Exercises to Hone Your Team’s Consultative Selling Skills

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As a sales manager, how do you improve your team’s performance? If you want to make a real difference in sales performance, the key for many salespeople is coaching. If you want to make a real difference in sales performance, the key for many salespeople is coaching. Increase commissions?