Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Achieving revenue targets can be tricky, and it’s tempting to overlook training. A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. Get practical advice for developing an effective, modern sales training strategy.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Evaluating the skills needed for future success and providing ongoing coaching and training are essential for building a high-performing sales team. Coachability refers to the ability to embrace feedback and continuously improve. The Role of Coaching Coaching plays a crucial role in developing sales teams.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Evaluating the skills needed for future success and providing ongoing coaching and training are essential for building a high-performing sales team. Coachability refers to the ability to embrace feedback and continuously improve. The Role of Coaching Coaching plays a crucial role in developing sales teams.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 27, 2023

As my regular readers know, my son is a baseball player – a rising college senior (as of the summer of 2023) – and I still coach him in the batting cage when he’s home for the summer. I started coaching him when he was old enough to hold a wiffle bat. What are they even referring to? it doesn’t matter.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 6, 2024

Sales managers should prioritize pre-call planning for coaching and difficult conversations. Third, it establishes a sense of accountability, as the manager can refer back to the written plan during follow-up discussions. The Role of Pre-Call Planning in Coaching Coleen adds another layer to the importance of preparation.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. Start a free trial 3.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 12, 2021

Legendary college basketball coach Bobby Knight once said, “To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you — as the coach — are doing. It's a powerful sentiment that provides some sage advice for coaches working across virtually all sports, fields, and occupations. How to Handle Coaching Challenges.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 3, 2020

When I say “you,” I am referring to frontline sales managers and sales executives. Coaching (Remotely). Sales coaching is the number one sales management activity that drives sales performance. Sales coaching is the number one sales management activity that drives sales performance. Keeping the Plan on Track.

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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the fast-paced world of sales, where every deal counts and every opportunity is a potential game-changer, mastering the art of effective sales training is non-negotiable. A successful sales training can have a huge impact in revenue. However, when it comes to sales training, adopting a hands-off stance is a recipe for failure.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 5, 2024

But the ‘ATMs’ I’m referring to have been around, well a long, long, long time. Bank ATMs (Automatic Teller Machines) have been around for a while.According to Investopedia, Barclays Bank of London in 1967 was the first to have an ATM in use. I remember using my first ATM – Jeanie Machine – in Cincinnati in 1979.

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Braveheart Sales

MARCH 21, 2023

As you approach Sales Management training, your philosophy should be the same. Thanks to Objective Management Group , data we have on millions of salespeople would suggest that much of this has to do with a salesperson’s mindset regarding sales – their beliefs, motivations, and attitudes about sales, commonly referred to as sales DNA.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Coaching their salespeople becomes a scenario of the blind leading the blind. References: 21 Sales Core Competencies 21 Sales Core Competencies by Sales Percentile, Industry, Company Image copyright 123RF The post What Companies Don’t Know About Sales appeared first on Kurlan & Associates, Inc.

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Shari Levitin

MAY 19, 2022

Proper training and coaching in a hybrid world is the most important strategy for maximizing the performance of the individuals on your team. Yet the pitfalls in face-to-face training are amplified in virtual training. Pitfall 1: Focus on the training vs. the learning. I even made it myself back in the day.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 29, 2024

One of the most effective ways to discover a method of improving your career is targeted career coaching. Career coaching allows you to examine your skills and experience as an employer would, looking for ways to improve them and taking advantage of what you can do. Learn more to train teams and join the advocacy program.

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Mindtickle

MAY 29, 2020

28%…that’s how much you can improve revenues through effective sales coaching. Managing productive sellers working out of home or remote offices is not a new concept, but how you approach the art and science of coaching must if you’re to develop and maintain productive sales activity that has shifted entirely online.

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Shari Levitin

MAY 19, 2022

Proper training and coaching in a hybrid world is the most important strategy for maximizing the performance of the individuals on your team. Yet the pitfalls in face-to-face training are amplified in virtual training. They train the best way for them rather than how their salespeople learn. I was elated.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 25, 2016

In order for a company to succeed, it needs to have a well-developed, well-trained team — one that is able to authentically connect with customers and set more meetings, schedule more demos, and close with confidence. So, how can you successfully coach a team for growth? It’s not a question of whether there’s time for coaching.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

References and reputation only go so far in evaluating capabilities. If they’re going to coach others, they must be receptive to feedback. Research in Brainshark shows the importance of coaching. They note that, if their managers were poor coaches, more than 60 percent of sales reps would leave.

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BrainShark

MAY 2, 2022

Virtual sales training is any synchronous or asynchronous learning provided online or via a digitalized experience. This means training can be delivered across multiple locations simultaneously and, in the case of asynchronous learning, at any time that’s convenient for the trainee. Assessing whether reps are ready to sell.

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Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the digital era, sales professionals need to embrace social selling training to remain relevant and successful. Tips for adoption of social selling training. The four pillars of this training are: Harnessing the power of social networks effectively. Let’s embark on a journey towards social selling mastery!

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 27, 2020

Effective sales training is a critical component of sales success, whether your team is full of seasoned professionals, brand new graduates, or a diverse mix of skills and experience levels. When it comes to training new employees, the Sales Training 101 course may be one of the most important investments you make.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2017

Annually spending by companies: Sales training $20 billion on sales training. Sales management training a few $100 million. We see this in times of recession when companies scale back on training, sales automation tools, and support materials. While training is often accepted as productive, it rarely is.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. How to maximize customer training investment. Intelligent, strategic investment in customer training is crucial to remaining competitive in the upcoming year.

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Braveheart Sales

JANUARY 7, 2020

Have you spent money on sales training without seeing rewards? Many sales training organizations focus on tactics and strategies only. And that statistic doesn’t seem to be improving, even though there are numerous sales training options, sales enablement systems and varied selling avenues such as social selling.

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Allego

APRIL 25, 2024

In sales, for example, surpassing targets largely depends on the quality of training provided. In fact, companies that have dynamic and adaptable sales training strategies see an average of 10% more salespeople meet their quotas compared to those with rigid approaches, according to CSO Insights.

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BrainShark

APRIL 21, 2024

Readiness Scorecards put data from sales training courses and curriculums into a ‘coachable’ context , so enablement leaders can collaborate with sales managers to improve results. When it comes to Scorecards, the all-important context refers to the sales rep. After all, sales training is all about helping the rep be more successful.

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BrainShark

MARCH 29, 2022

The right customer service training software can help you onboard agents faster, track their learning progress, and ensure they always have access to relevant information for resolving client issues quickly. There’s usually no short, practical training for solving specific client problems on the spot. Articulate.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 15, 2024

A self-fulfilling prophecy, it refers to the phenomenon where higher expectations lead to increased performance. While this is yet another movie reference, top sellers know this feeling from SKOs. In a nutshell, regular sales training achieves results. According to Task Drive , coaching can improve win rates by 29 percent.

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Keith Rosen

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Learn the language of leadership and sales: the language of coaching. With all the uncertainty and change, sales leaders are extremely busy, which can sometimes mean that coaching gets deprioritized on a leader’s to-do list. One thing managers can do to become a better leader and start coaching their team today?

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It shouldn’t be surprising that we spend a lot of time training sales teams and coaching the sales team leaders. Here are five elements that must be considered before any money is spent on sales training. Can sales training be embedded into a repeatable selling system and process within your CRM?

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I’ll refer to the twelve GameStop investors as The Group. The work usually involves a combination of reading, watching video, participating in comprehensive sales training, receiving quality sales coaching, practicing (role-play) and having the courage to put their learnings into practice.

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Coaching is one of the most crucial aspects of a sales leader’s role. But, it can be hard to carve out more than 30 minutes per week to coach. That suggests most sales reps aren’t getting the training they need to succeed which, in turn, can hurt the company’s bottom line. Implement a Coaching Culture in Your Sales Team.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2018

If only 20 percent of your clients were referred, then your team obviously hasn’t learned how to ask for referrals, which means you’re missing out on your prime source of qualified leads. Refer a friend” rewards work fine in the B2C space, but in B2B, it’s slimy. There’s no implementation plan or ongoing reinforcement and coaching.

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Keith Rosen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Coaching included. Since my job as your coach is to make your life easier, not more complicated, this coaching strategy will save you time and improve your coaching, sanity and life as a manager – forever. Coaching Simplified: The Only Three Gaps You’ll Uncover – And How to Coach Them.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

There are nearly 15 million salespeople working in the United States, and they spend weeks or even months training for success in their role. Given the different responsibilities, industries, and team structures salespeople encounter, it’s hard to recommend a one-size-fits-all approach to sales training. Use a sales training template.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

We spend 100’s of millions on SKO speakers, books, and training–all focused on doing the things that drive business, sales and marketing performance. It’s not an inspirational speech, a great book, an exciting training program, a new initiative, new programs, or comp plans rewarding the right behaviors. ”).

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