The Brooks Group

MARCH 11, 2020

Remaining strong – and in fact, stalwart – in the face of this uncharted new landscape represents a generational challenge for many in positions of sales management. Sales Management Strategies. Track, train, and educate. Enter Stress Analysis and Virtual Training. Decide if you want to prosper or perish.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 4, 2022

The secret to maximizing sales training is simple. In this article, we will outline how organizations can maximize their sales training to increase performance, prevent failure, and maximize their sales training investment. . Plan Sales Training Strategically. Who should be trained?

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

"I had no idea Dave was going to struggle so much as a Sales Manager. This post is written for the VP of Sales who wants to eliminate promoting the wrong rep to sales manager. A Sales Leadership Council is the top 10% of your sales force that has expressed an interest in sales management.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

What is a Sales Manager. A sales manager is a person that’s responsible for building, leading, and managing a sales team within an organization. . A sales manager will work closely with managers of other departments, as well as communicate with prospects and customers on a regular or semi-regular basis.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Clicking mindlessly through an agonizingly slow video presentation or sitting in a hot, stuffy conference room with dozens of other people listening to a presenter drone on about things you already know. Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. Why sales training is important.

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BrainShark

AUGUST 15, 2023

A video coaching tool like the one pictured here makes it easy to scale role play exercises to multiple reps or even your whole sales team. Example: Ask them to respond to a common buyer objection, such as, “I need more time to decide so I’ll be putting this decision on the back burner for another 6 months.”

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 25, 2021

She decided special training was needed for girls who wanted to become saleswomen, and perhaps one day, women sales leaders. And as a member of the executive committee of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, she had the means to provide that training.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 21, 2014

Partner Hiring and Training Lessons from Sage Summit. Non-productive partner companies often hire the best, but fall short at training their talent. 1 job of management. These two areas normally get casual attention, but seldom do they receive the management focus they require. The next piece is ongoing training.

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Allego

JULY 29, 2021

Most recently, Cespedes published a new book—his sixth—entitled Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing. . The combination of Cespedes’ academic experience and his knowledge of real-world selling makes him one of the foremost authorities on the topics of sales and sales management.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. The Pipeline Guest Post – Jonathan Farrington. take over again and the reactive mindset returns.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 25% Increase in Sales Training ROI – Sales eXchange – 115. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Hiring Sales Talent , Proactive , Proactivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales eXchange , execution. Given that, why train them?

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2021

Between meetings, presentations, conferences and emails, I rarely had time to even meet with customers. In fact, there are many great options open to CEOs for networking opportunities, for example, TEC (The Executive Committee) in Canada or Vistage around the world. Turning the sales strategy to organization action.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 10, 2020

After researching how vulnerability can impact sales, I decided to talk to CeCe Aparo , Vice President and GM of Corporate Training at Hoffman , a sales management training organization. However, you might be wondering, "Why would I want to be vulnerable in a sales meeting?".

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The Brooks Group

APRIL 22, 2020

For those who are missing the sense of immediacy that comes with selling a customer or prospect face-to-face, now is a golden opportunity to turn your focus to a level of fulfillment that can restore your sales team’s sense of purpose in the world. That’s why training that keeps apace with the times is critical to restoring your sales mojo.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2017

Partner with other key functions such as marketing, product management, internal communications and human resources to create the best programs and tools to meet your sales teams communication and training needs. In other words, sales management is never caught off guard or surprised by a communication received by their team.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 10, 2020

After researching how vulnerability can impact sales, I decided to talk to CeCe Aparo , Vice President and GM of Corporate Training at Hoffman , a sales management training organization. However, you might be wondering, "Why would I want to be vulnerable in a sales meeting?".

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InsideSales.com

MARCH 3, 2021

Our customer conference—NEXT 2021 is just around the corner and we think you should be there. NEXT is a free 2-day virtual event designed to give your sales team practical insights to succeed in 2021, and a vision for where the market is going. NEXT isn’t just any virtual conference.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 7, 2018

Google “sales enablement definition” and you will get plenty of results. For example, a supporting framework is required where executives drive sales enablement efforts top-down and sellers receive consistent, proactive coaching from sales managers. The result is a buyer-centric approach to sales enablement.

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Showpad

APRIL 9, 2021

It’s hard to get your foot in the door on a video conference call, isn’t it? Not only are the techniques that sellers deploy different today, but remote training requires a unique set of best practices as well. Sales training is just one of the many organizational functions that can be enhanced through the use of technology.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

What does it mean for B2B sales managers as they strategize for 2021? Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills? What components of an existing sales process transfer well to virtual interactions? What should sales kickoffs look like? positive or negative,” he writes. Ensure tech proficiency and use.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As you’d expect, the industry’s evolution is driving major change in the way firms train and support their wholesalers. We’ve had a front-row seat to watch leading distribution teams reinvent sales learning and development to ensure their reps succeed in today’s tough environment. Turnabout is Fair Game.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 13, 2023

Creativity is essential for almost any endeavor, even being a programmer, for example, or an engineer. Unusual circumstances during my sales career encouraged my use of humor, which almost miraculously increased support, referrals, and ultimate sales. Examples include: – Negative individuals who succumb to laughter.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 9, 2024

Have you just taken a new position as a manager? Training will be important as the skill set you need as a manager will differ from what you relied on in your staff role. 3 Ways Your Leadership Mindset Can Optimize Team Performance As a manager, you have metrics to reach. Congratulations. Photo by Fauxels on Pexels.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

We’ve put together a list of the 20 most motivational sales quotes. These quotes cover everything from general motivation to sales strategy, and they’re words to live by for any sales professional. For sales managers looking to give their team a productivity boost, look no further than these 20 motivational quotes.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The folks over at Insight Squared recently posted this interview with me. It touched on sales management but there wasn''t enough time to do it justice. In the context of best practices, the sales management role is now 50% coaching. Are you serious? it''s not important?

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Showpad

APRIL 9, 2020

Sales managers are tasked with not only leading their teams, but providing them with all the resources and support they need to develop trust with buyers and shorten sales cycles. The goal is to boost the success of sales reps, and therefore the success of the team and organization as a whole. Encourage collaboration.

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MEDDIC

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Get ready for the ultimate sales training extravaganza: your annual Sales Kick Off (SKO). It’s that time of the year again when your sales squad unites for a grand showcase of learning, teaching, and pumping up the motivation. Each of these methodologies equips your sales team with fresh tools and perspectives.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past, most B2B sales were conducted face-to-face – perhaps in a prospect’s conference room or at a golf course. Many deals are closed today without the buyer and seller meeting face-to-face, a practice known as inside sales. The shift to remote sales accelerated during the pandemic. The short answer is, it depends.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2022

A reader wrote me, “Dave do you think sales enablement professionals need selling experience?” ” It’s a follow on to many of the discussions about “Do sales managers need sales experience?” Or whether it’s providing the right training, tools, content, programs or processes.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

A sales process is a set of repeatable steps that your sales team takes to convert prospects into customers. Building a sales process is absolutely necessary to your company’s success, and is perhaps the most important thing you can do as a sales manager to impact your team’s ability to sell.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 4, 2013

But I also had sales leaders who just raised the number by a percentage every year, not taking into consideration changes in the market or in opening up a new territory. Activity goals are goals that you typically come up with together with your sales manager targeting specific actions that you have a whole lot of control over.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 5, 2014

A great example of this is your copier lease. Many small companies do not have sales managers, leaving the Presidents, CEO''s and owners serving in that role on-demand. New salespeople require knowledge, onboarding, training, coaching, direction, training, coaching, support, training, coaching, accountability and attention. (I

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The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

I see this over and over again in the early stages of sales development at every company we help. Read this great example from yesterday’s mailbag: A salesperson emailed his lessons learned and included this one: “The final lesson again concerns the compelling reasons to buy. HR Management. Lead Management.

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Allego

JANUARY 28, 2021

“I have mastered the classroom training. found herself asking the very question she poses during leadership conferences and sales training alike, this time to herself: . found herself asking the very question she poses during leadership conferences and sales training alike, this time to herself: . “Do

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The Digital Sales Institute

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Crucially, the business or salesperson can identify the point in which a sale tends to fall through in the cycle. By constantly reviewing which steps in the sales cycle lead to a sales and which steps when skipped don’t, a business can finetune their methods and sales training to improve conversion rates.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Explore a range of sales process examples and learn how to align with the customer’s journey for better buyer engagement , relationships, and sales success. What is a Sales Process? A sales process is a structured set of steps that guides salespeople through the sales cycle.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 16, 2020

Call recording systems are a great tool for training, quality assurance, and legal purposes. Read on to find out 10 reasons how they can benefit your sales team. 10 Reasons Why You Need A Call Recording System For Your Sales Team. Improve Sales Training. Sales managers can utilize various tech tools for training.

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