The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 27, 2021

Most sales managers will meet that headline with an eye-roll but stay with us. Great sales leaders individualize their coaching while they manage a standardized sales process. The first job of a sales leader is relatively easy - the second takes more discipline. Only two jobs?

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Mindtickle

APRIL 23, 2024

In business, it’s often assumed that a person who excels as a sales rep will also be successful as a sales manager. As such, top sales reps are often promoted to sales managers and left to find their way into their new roles. What is sales management training? This approach simply doesn’t work.

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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

MAY 9, 2018

Most sales executives realize the value and importance of sales coaching. They know that sales coaching is one of the most significant levers to drive superior sales performance. To Coach Or Not To Coach? Here is what the data shows: Only 14% are spending enough time sales coaching.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I dive into part two of my conversation with sales leadership expert Mike Weinberg on what new sales managers need to do to get off to a successful start. He credits Mary Gardner, the Area Vice President of his group, for fundamentally shaping his approach to sales leadership.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 1, 2014

Effective coaching will lead to all of the desired outcomes. In this case, coaching was used for evil purposes, but it was coaching nonetheless. Let''s discuss coaching. It has been well-documented that effective coaching will positively impact sales. Your salespeople MUST be coached. So what to do?

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 10, 2021

Invest in your sales managers to unlock the potential in your sales organization and turn that performance into sustainable performance As the leader of your organization, the next 6 months will prove to be more pressure-filled than you may have experienced in years. Invest in your sales managers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 30, 2018

Davis Excellent sales managers aren’t made overnight. As a manager, you’re always learning and growing along with your sales team. Every team member has a unique reaction to your management style, and it takes a great manager to navigate all those unique situations and relationships. Author: Kevin F.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2017

Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team. Do you want to develop an awesome sales management team? Sales leaders have several options to achieve and exceed their sales numbers. Annually spending by companies: Sales training $20 billion on sales training.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 16, 2023

We all know the challenges of a sales career. And many know the difficulties of management. That’s what makes the sales manager position unique. Sales managers, however, not only work with their teams. They also work with other mid- and high-level managers. The same for sales managers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

These efforts frequently end up with disappointing results, however, because most companies neglect the most powerful lever in their arsenal: their frontline, field-level sales managers who directly coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis. In this study, top managers brought in an average $3.5

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. Oftentimes, sales managers won’t have the bandwidth to set up personalized training and coaching sessions for each rep on their team.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. As a sales manager, see whether this sounds familiar: You sit down with an underperforming salesperson and open with a statement like, “You’re not hitting your numbers.”

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 3, 2023

In sales, the terms “manager” and “coach” are common titles. Afterall, for each, their primary objective is supporting sales teams to boost performance and achieve success. In actual practice, however, sales managers and coaches may or may not be the same person. What Is Sales Management?

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

We all know, or should know that one of the highest impact activities managers can do with their people is coaching them, enabling them to discover and learn how to continually improve their performance. But what about managers? If you are a senior managers, are you coaching the managers reporting to you?

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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. ” I could go on, there were many more examples of their unwillingness to be coached, to ask for and accept help. Related Posts: On Being Coachable Are You Coachable? Who Benefits Most From Coaching?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 10, 2018

Author: Michelle Vazzana, CEO, Vantage Point Performance Frontline sales managers have a difficult job. In fact, we think they have the hardest job in any sales organization. Despite the varied and intense demands put on sales managers, they are given relatively little guidance or training on how to actually do their job.

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The Pipeline

MAY 26, 2016

Brock writes a book on a critical subject like sales management, it is an opportunity to learn and share with others in my circle. But when the subject is one you can relate because you have lived it, it is a bonus. This clearly leads to a focus on coaching. I love the line “Coaching is a contact sport!

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 15, 2024

He also talks about transitioning to a strategic selling approach, highlighting the importance of coaching, leadership development, reflection, and setting expectations for coaching time to optimize sales team performance and prioritize high-value activities. Authentic leadership was emphasized as a key component of success.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

The VP of Sales called to ask for my help, “I need you to coach my people.” “I want to hire you to coach my sales people on a day to day basis, nothing specific, but I read your book, I know coaching is important, I want you to do it. But outsourcing all day to day coaching is wrong.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 26, 2013

Welcome to Sales Management TV. I am Steven Rosen author of 52 Sales Management Tips and executive sales coach. Rob will need training and coaching to get up to speed. I have worked with many sales managers who feel under the gun to hire. I am sure you can relate.

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Nutshell

MARCH 31, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to stay up to date with the latest sales trends, keep up with your sales skills and knowledge, and continually build your management and leadership expertise. In this post, we’ll share some of our favorite resources for sales managers. Here are some of our favorites.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Being a sales manager is a whirlwind experience, especially for those who were once successful sales reps themselves. Fortunately, there are valuable best practices that can help aspiring sales managers excel in their positions. Best Practices for Sales Managers 1. Lay a robust foundation.

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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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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 and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 15, 2022

For years, there has been little attention paid to the topic of coaching. Sure, there was lip service, but when one looked deeply into organizations, either coaching wasn’t done, or the coaching that was done was horrible. It’s our job as managers to coach and develop those people that report to us.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 4, 2012

She does it as Late Night Show host David Letterman style with the top 10 reasons to read 52 Sales Management Tips. I just finished reading Steven Rosen’s 52 Sales Management Tips – The Sales Manager’s Success Guide. Vanier Distinguished Professor of Relational Selling and Marketing. Thank you Dawn.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 29, 2020

You’ve moved from being an individual contributor to managing a team. How do you transition from being a great sales person into being a great sales manager. The job of sales manager is different. Our personal ability to successfully manage and close deals made us successful as individual contributors.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Enablement teams can now use Highspot to harness actionable insight from customer conversations and empower sales managers to drive consistent performance by efficiently coaching the right sales skills. “We Highspot’s enablement-led approach lets sales teams understand and improve their most important initiatives.

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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? The CFO’s eyes glaze over.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 18, 2022

I suspect we all agree that coaching is important to the development of our people, and our own personal development. But now we get into some of the dicey areas, moving beyond the theoretical statement about coaching, to making it happen. Most of the data shows: Too many managers aren’t coaching their people.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 8, 2013

Some of these processes can take 3 -6 months to determine whether the sales rep can address their performance gaps or if not are fired. When addressing a reps performance, sales managers will use formal Performance Improvement Programs (PIP). They are content to meet annual sales objectives, but not exceed them.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: JIM NINIVAGGI, CHIEF READINESS OFFICER, BRAINSHARK “What’s your onboarding program for new sales managers?”. While most companies would agree that sales onboarding is a strategic priority, the focus of their processes is often only?—? Why you need to onboard sales managers. That’s a pity. and myopically?—?on

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 2, 2013

When I discovered they were from Robbins I thought the sender, my wife Linda, was sending them to me because a) she felt like I needed luck, we needed luck, or b) there was some cool stuff in here about sales or sales management. If you are like me, sorry, you ignore them and move on. Love deeply and passionately.

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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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Sell Integrity

AUGUST 13, 2021

Great sales team coaching takes specific knowledge and functional expertise to build a successful team. On their own, these aren’t enough to bring out the best in their sales teams and help them achieve their full performance potential. Emotional and Social Intelligence for Sales Coaches. Here’s why.

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