Mindtickle

AUGUST 25, 2022

Effective sales coaching can improve quota attainment by 21% and win rates by 19%. As it significantly impacts your team’s revenue generation, it’s essential to keep in mind essential sales coaching tips and techniques — even in your busiest periods like the end of the quarter. Don’t coach at random.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 2, 2023

5 Ways to Stay Inspired Paul Smith is the Sales Director of a leading technology company. He has been in the industry for the last ten years and has been a star in various sales and marketing roles. Having just gone through a sales force downsizing, Paul has adopted an inspirational leadership style.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Enter negotiation role play exercises. Working through a hypothetical scenario with a team member or coach gives you a low-stakes opportunity to identify your strengths, weaknesses, and stumbling blocks. Sales Role Play Exercises. Sales Role Play Exercises. Sales Role Plays. Players: The salesperson.

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Awarathon

APRIL 12, 2024

Understanding the role of Generative AI in training The rise of Generative AI is transforming fields with the ‘adapt or perish’ mantra, and sales training is no exception. Generative AI is on the cusp of revolutionizing sales training programs. Let’s go through this in detail.

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Mereo

JANUARY 26, 2023

During your sales kickoff, role-plays and other hands-on activities should dominate. These exercises allow your teams to have in-depth practice of what to do — and what not to do — during buyer interactions. When your teams are not given the space to practice skills and sales tools, they can make larger blunders with buyers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 4, 2024

In today’s article, I introduce my first innovation of 2023, the Sales Goals Grid, but first, some context and the back story! Most people set New Year’s resolutions around this time of the year which, in general terms, is nothing more than an exercise in goal setting. Happy New Year everyone! Not by any stretch.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For many sales organizations, coaching is a tricky subject. As an ongoing activity, it is sandwiched between more exciting events, like onboarding and sales training. But sales coaching also suffers from a secondary malady. As sales coaching and training experts, let us dispense with one persistent myth.

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2022

A classic issue in sales forces is promoting one of the top performing sales reps to the manager of a sales team, then having them fail in this new role. 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”.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 3, 2024

I will…eat in a more healthful manner, exercise consistently, meditate, take yoga breaks, get massages, facials, pedicures… fill in the blank. Right now, most coaches and leaders are looking blank and thinking, what is professional self-care? Most of us have set goals to start and end this year strong.

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

Heres how the sales role play usually goes: The manager gathers the team and tells them that they will be doing some role-playing to prepare for an upcoming presentation. One of the exercises in this book covers what most people think they already know how to do. The second exercise was too artificial to learn from. The Ringer.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

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? You are a sales leader. For Sales Managers That Are Struggling.

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SBI

JUNE 15, 2021

The 3 Biggest Obstacles Standing in the way of Excellent Sales Coaching. No matter what you’re selling, you need an effective sales team to discover your prospects’ needs, present possible solutions, answer questions, and close deals with new and existing customers. Sales coaching is not without its own challenges.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 30, 2018

Author: Jason Jordan In a previous blog post , I recounted the story of a coach who shouted absolutely useless advice to a team of 12-year-old boys who were trying to win the last game in a soccer tournament. They already wanted to win the game – probably more so than the coach, for that matter. Good coaching demands more.

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Awarathon

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Part four of our five-part series is a hugely hot topic in sales enablement. Getting the most out of every coaching and training session is key to increasing sales velocity and conversion rate. The objective of every sales representative and team should revolve around these aspects. Let’s find out as we move forward.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

Anyone in charge of a company’s sales success knows a sales team is only as good as its members. Like any group of individuals that comes together for a common cause, if a sales team is going to succeed consistently, reps and management must operate in a culture that motivates individuals to perform at their best.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 23, 2020

The post The Necessity of Fluency Coaching by Tim Riesterer appeared first on Corporate Visions. But there’s another, more effective way for your reps to gain proficiency in newly learned skills: Fluency Coaching. But, incorporating a “fit for duty” exercise is essential to ensure proper adoption and utilization.

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Highspot

MAY 20, 2021

With organizations spending $2,020 per rep a year on training, it’s unsurprising that 95% of sales leaders reported that sales training is the most important form of enablement for their teams, according to CSO Insights. Sales trainers who have content in an authoring tool that exports SCORM 1.2 Sales Play Scorecards.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Lee Smith A recent State of Sales report published by LinkedIn revealed that U.S. businesses spend $15 billion a year training their sales employees. Despite this spending level, 68% of sales professionals are rated as moderate performers in the State of Sales, fourth edition, report from Salesforce.

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Allego

JUNE 20, 2019

Yet when it comes to preparing sales reps for customer objections, that’s exactly what many managers tacitly say: “I know we didn’t practice responses, so just be confident and get ready to think on your feet. A good coaching program starts with a database of actual objections. Just be poised and confident in front of the camera.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What I am going to tell you is, in my 40+ years of selling and managing sales teams, I’ve never read anything like this. I’ve learned a ton, and I am impressed with her validated research as well as her ability to masterfully weave in her personal sales struggles and discomfort. I’ve been saying the same thing for years!)

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Allego

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you’re involved in sales training , you know creating a training program is a multi-step and multi-person effort. For sales training to be effective, you must: Identify Specific Needs: This involves understanding the unique aspects of your product or service, the target market, and the skills or knowledge gaps within the sales team.

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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. By far, the most important aspect of coaching is regular, one-on-one meetings. Team Activities.

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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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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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A Sales Guy

JANUARY 29, 2014

I coach my clients to “shift” the feeling when we talk about making changes to their business. They have exercised their change muscle. or don’t bother with that shaming exercise and just decide to beef up your vocabulary a bit everyday and drop at least one over used word. Since the flip side of anxiety is excitement.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 26, 2021

The familiar expression “measure twice, cut once”, has validity in B2B sales as well. Not just know, but plan for and manage like any other element of sales success. You can focus on improving other variables of the sale. I will not comment on how things come to pass here, but there is merit to the exercise.

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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. Our State of Sales Readiness Report 2022 shows that, on average, managers oversee eight sales reps.

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Allego

JULY 14, 2022

It turns out high-performing sales reps prefer to learn the same way. After that, they are released to their territories and don’t receive any further systematic training until the next national sales meeting six to 12 months later. Agile learning enables collaboration between sales reps, managers, and subject matter experts (SMEs).

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Allego

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When ATD asked sales managers to estimate the number of hours they devoted to coaching every month, the average respondent said “three to four hours.” But when sales reps were asked how many hours of coaching they received each month, “one hour” was the average response. Tip 1: Define Sales Coaching.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 3, 2024

A luminary in the realm of sales and the brains behind “Innovate Now.” I even shared a personal anecdote about losing a substantial portion of sales due to this very complacency. Unleashing the Power of Bold Behaviors: In the dynamic landscape of sales, Andy underscored the paramount importance of bold behaviors.

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Allego

MAY 17, 2023

As the pressure for sales teams to succeed increases, so too does the need for sales leaders to develop their sellers’ skills and potential. First, many sales leaders rely on an outdated sales leadership approach. In fact, 76% of sales leaders have too many demands on their time, Brandon Hall Group research shows.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In sales, where every conversation counts and every opportunity demands precision, your team needs more than just the ordinary training programs. Without sales training software, it would be very difficult to ensure reps are applying best practices, staying up-to-date with the products and services they’re selling, and closing deals.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2018

One of the most enlightening and personal sales operations exercises that any rep can do is to build their own sales velocity equation. In fact, even before sellers join a company, it can be extremely helpful to ask your prospective employer about the current sales velocity of their organization. Sales cycle length.

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Allego

JULY 10, 2018

Even the most talented coaches can benefit from more – or better – training. Sales Coaching : Talking the Talk. Research shows that the quality and quantity of coaching has a profound impact on sales performance. Why Traditional Sales Training Fails. They also need coaching, themselves.

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Allego

JANUARY 15, 2019

At a global contact lens provider, the sales training team recently overcame an all-too-common challenge: doing more with less. and Canada, the company’s Sales Development Manager could have asked her “mighty team of five” (as she calls them) to work longer and harder. Trainers Are Scarce, But Not Sales Experts.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Coaches can't win games alone. The same is true in sales. An uncoachable sales team is easy to spot — they lack direction, motivation, and cohesion. But when sales reps embrace coaching, they invest in their success — and the success of their entire team. What makes coaching so effective? The problem?

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Keith Rosen

JANUARY 19, 2014

Perhaps you have encountered similar challenges around being fully present and suspending your own agenda when trying to effectively transition from manager to coach in order to boost team performance. This is also a great example of coaching someone via email. Remember my definition of coaching. The Art of Creating Possibility.

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