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25 Sales Experts on the Importance of Coaching Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

According to the search results inside this blog, I have written on the topic of coaching salespeople more than 400 times or 25% of my articles. Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. Sales Managers don’t want to coach because it takes away from personal sales.

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Achieving Sales Team Excellence – the Motivation Competency

Anthony Cole Training

We rely on the pioneer and #1 sales management evaluation by Objective Management Group to help understand exactly what it takes to ‘motivate’ a sales team. Simply stated: The Motivating Competency measures how effectively a sales manager understands what motivates their salespeople and how they can keep them motivated.

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Achieving Sales Team Excellence with a Coaching Culture

Anthony Cole Training

Most sales managers spend less than 10% of their time on coaching, and only one third of managers actually coach their people on a weekly basis. Yet, the Coaching Competency is the most critical part of a sales manager's responsibilities; it is also the most difficult skill set to learn and master.

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Motivating Your Sales Team: A Guide for Sales Leaders

Anthony Cole Training

There are two sides to this topic of motivation. One side is how are your salespeople motivated and what motivates them. The second side is how effective are you as a sales leader at motivating your sales team? Both must be addressed to fully understand this topic of motivation and the impact on sales results.

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An Innovative & Creative Problem Solver Approach to Selling in the Medical Device Space

Speaker: Steve Goldstein, Sales Leader

Join Steve Goldstein, Sales Success Coach, Motivational Speaker and Medical Device Sales Leader from Gold Selling LLC., Coached over 2000 sales reps worldwide. Dale Carnegie Sales Coach/Human Relations Award Winner. What about the extremely competitive world of medical device sales? Toastmasters Champion.

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Can motivation be coached?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan When I wrote about former New York Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy in this space in 2014, I thought it was a one-off. But the other night, Van Gundy was asked whether having a veteran player like guard Jimmy Butler on the Minnesota Timberwolves this year would help motivate a younger player like Andrew Wiggins to work harder.

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Use Peer Coaching to Drive Employee Lifetime Value

Sales and Marketing Management

Peer coaching is one technique that will help you unlock employee engagement in all three of Daniel Pink’s categories of what motivates: purpose, mastery and autonomy. The post Use Peer Coaching to Drive Employee Lifetime Value appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Build a Successful and Results-Driven Sales Culture

Speaker: Gary Galvin, CEO, Galvin Technologies

This often means motivating your team through everything from revenue targets, to sales funnel and forecasting, to activity management and collaboration. This webinar will cover how sales managers can track opportunities, accounts, and sales activities, all while coaching and collaborating with sales teams on a daily and weekly basis.