Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today, I had the honor of participating in a webcast on coaching, with Lori Richardson, Jason Jordan, and Mike Kunkle. “Cold calling and most prospecting doesn’t work anymore… ” Hmmmm, that’s interesting, then how do you and millions of other sales people find opportunities. They are uncoachable.

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Coaching Cold Calling Follow-up Pipeline 118

BrainShark

JULY 4, 2023

Coaching sales reps is vital, and if you aren’t currently doing it, good news – getting started can make a world of difference for your bottom line. Challenges for organizations with untrained or undertrained reps include missed quotas, inconsistent messaging, and lack of sales readiness. What is sales coaching?

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Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Video 62

CommercialTribe

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Welcome to part three in our series on data-driven sales coaching, aimed at arming sales leaders with the advice they need to effectively direct coaching efforts and realize a strong ROI. This was undeniably a coaching moment. So, where was her frontline sales manager? Don’t worry!

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Coaching Top of Funnel Hiring Sales Management 52

Braveheart Sales

AUGUST 12, 2021

We know that sales managers require different skills and strengths than salespeople. Sales managers need to recruit the right individuals, coach, hold people accountable, and motivate their teams. The same is true of sales managers vs other managers. Additional Sales Management Abilities.

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Sales Management Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Coaching 76

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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Sales Coaching Coaching Exercises Lead Rank 93

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We tend to focus on the pieces/parts of what we do, the responsibilities of our organization, for example marketing, SDRs/Inside Sales, AEs, Account Managers, Sales Engineering, Sales Ops, Sales Enablement. Today, I want to focus on Sales Management.

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Hiring Sales Management Territories Forecasting 73

Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

And it makes sense — tracking and pulling insight from sales calls manually is a frustrating, labor-intensive, often ineffective burden that can eat up sales managers' time without offering much return. Sales managers stand to gain a lot by incorporating this kind of tech into their teams' day-to-day and broader sales efforts.

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Conversion Sales Management Scale Call-back 109

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I read an article about how to be a successful sales manager. One of the pieces of “insight” was to manage and coach by results versus micromanaging or counting activities. If your sales cycle is very short–a few meetings over a few days, that may not be a problem. Activity metrics are important.

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Coaching Pipeline Sales Cycle Compensation 98

Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

Sellers often can’t explain why deals don’t work out, leaving your sales managers in the dark. Your sales managers need the ability to identify why deals are lost and how they can train and coach reps to win today’s deal — and every deal in the future. Pre-qualification call.

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Coaching Conversion Sales Coaching Lead Rank 104

Steven Rosen

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite good interviewing skills, many sales managers are guilty of making the following hiring mistakes: Hiring people they like. Do your sales managers have the tools and processes to systematically identify top sales performers from those who are pretenders? Identifies candidates with sales success DNA.

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Hiring Lead Rank Retention Face-to-face 367

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I’ve been trying to find a way to tie cooking to sales management. I love to cook (and eat) and I love selling and coaching sales management. Thus my attempt to find another way to explain concepts of sales management: COOKING! Let’s think about your relationship with your sales people.

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LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.

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BrainShark

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

That’s why most sales reps shy away from video coaching assessments — despite its potential to help grow their careers and client portfolios. Our own data pulled from a survey of 133,442 responses shows prospects are 13 times more likely to want to buy from a rep when they sounded extremely confident versus not confident at all. .

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Coaching Video Lead Rank Lead Scoring 62

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

Sales coaching is all about looking forward and developing your people. High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program.

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Sales Coaching Research Coaching Sales Methodology 113

No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Can sales managers influence the buying process? You can’t manage revenue. If sales close, you win. Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process.

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Account Referrals Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile 287

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2016

The responsibilities of a sales manager are very broad. Frontline managers have to work to make sure each person on the team is performing at the highest levels possible. They have to provide the coaching, training, systems, processes, tools, and support to enable their people to achieve their goals.

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Coaching Sales Management Face-to-face Analysis 48

Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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Hiring Sales Management Training Lead Gen 62

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2021

As a sales manager, ensuring that your team's communication with prospects is tight and effective is in your best interest. That process — making sure your team's communications aren't erratic — is most commonly referred to as implementing consistent sales messaging. Keep it customer-centric and accessible.

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Sales Management Hubspot How To Scale 132

Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 19, 2022

Congratulations, you are now a sales manager. Earning the title of sales manager is an important step in your sales career, regardless of the size of your sales team. There is plenty that new sales managers need to learn on their journey to become a sales leader.

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Sales Management Sales Leadership Sales Report 62

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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Coaching Customer Face-to-face Territories 56

Xvoyant

JULY 2, 2020

Are we coaching effectively? What is Coaching, Really? Instead, I’ll opt to provide clarity on what you could be doing to radically improve the performance of your sales force. Sales coaching is a formal developmental process where sales managers partner with their sales reps to improve sales performance.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Forecasting Lead Rank 62

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Too often, our sales coaching, if we do it, really misses the mark. We tend to look at things the same way, coaching our people the same way–when what they really need may be very different. It is actually based on a real customer situation, but provides a great illustration of how our coaching can go off target.

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Coaching Sales Coaching Top of Funnel Pipeline 80

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). close more sales (21). coaching (25). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). open ended sales questions (11).

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Coaching Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Journal 190

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 5, 2015

As I continue to think about habits of sales people and the role of the sales manager in identifying, assessing and “correcting” habits, I keep looking for additional information that might be additive to this string of articles. Ike sent me a link to a survey that was done regarding the hunt for sales managers/directors.

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Hiring Sales Management CRM Scale 120

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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Sales Coaching Coaching Scale Hiring 62

Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 22, 2012

Here is an excerpt from a recent CBS College Basketball article : "Of the Sweet 16 teams remaining in the NCAA tournament, four are coached by guys who never played college basketball -- Crean (Indiana), Marquette's Buzz Williams (a former Crean assistant), Cincinnati's Mick Cronin and Baylor's Scott Drew. What is your competency is managing.

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Sales Management Hiring Film Coaching 185

Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 12, 2011

building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). close more sales (21). coaching (25). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). open ended sales questions (11).

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Coaching Hiring Ideal Customer Profile eBook 183

Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Forecasting 115

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 30, 2012

building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). close more sales (21). coaching (25). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). open ended sales questions (11).

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Sales Management Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Call-back 159

Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

Sellers often can’t explain why deals don’t work out, leaving your sales managers in the dark. Your sales managers need the ability to identify why deals are lost and how they can train and coach reps to win today’s deal — and every deal in the future. Pre-qualification call.

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Coaching Conversion Sales Coaching Lead Rank 52

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Perhaps more than other more average fields, you really need virtues in sales management. The bottom line: if you don’t clearly understand how a sales manager needs to be poised for the future, you reduce the chances of creating value and growth. The need for courage comes into play all throughout a sales manager’s job.

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Sales Management Hiring Biotechnology Call-back 75

Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 16, 2011

building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). close more sales (21). coaching (25). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). open ended sales questions (11).

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Sales Coaching Hiring Coaching Ideal Customer Profile 181

Nutshell

JANUARY 28, 2019

Love the Patriots or hate ‘em , you can’t deny that Bill Belichick is one of the most effective coaches in football history. Belichick is the only NFL head coach with five Super Bowl victories, and under his direction the Pats have won nine AFC championship titles (beating my Colts in a number of those games).

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Coaching How To Face-to-face Data 79

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2019

Sadly, too many managers seem to mindlessly echo the same meaningless mantra from some hopelessly outdated sales manager playbook. ” Sadly, too often, managers don’t focus on this, because suggesting “Do better,” is tough. The answer to every performance issue seems to be simply, “Do more!”

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Sales Management Maximizer Analysis Pipeline 67

Allego

JANUARY 11, 2024

To help you out, I did the work for you and found some of the top GPTs for sales professionals. Below you’ll find GPTs for sales coaching, sales content, sales leadership, sales management, and sales strategy. Suggested prompts: How should I approach a new prospect?

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Ideal Customer Profile Customer Social Media Negotiation 71

LevelEleven

AUGUST 29, 2019

Many first-time sales managers were former top sales reps, and often the next step career-wise is to use that productivity and success in management. The hope is that they can coach others on what they know to help their reps follow in their footsteps. Develop your team by exposing them to new thinking.

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Sales Management How To Penetration Lead Rank 80

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). close more sales (21). coaching (25). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). open ended sales questions (11).

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Hiring Sales Management Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics 174