Steven Rosen

APRIL 1, 2024

These discussions, whether addressing underperformance, behavioural issues, or compensation adjustments, are crucial for maintaining a healthy sales environment and driving performance. A Look at the Stats Recent surveys and studies have revealed an uncomfortable truth: many sales managers regularly sidestep difficult conversations.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Helen Fanucci , a sales leader with 25+ years in the high-tech industry and author of “Love Your Team: A Survival Guide for Sales Managers in a Hybrid World.” discusses the importance of trust in sales, effective targeting strategies, and the role of collaboration in team selling.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 15, 2024

Keith Rzucidlo , Vice President of Sales at Miller Electric, joins the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast to discuss how to turn visions into actions in sales leadership. Keith shares the importance of patience and reflection in driving behavior change and advises sales leaders on coaching and change management. “I

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I sit down with Mike Weinberg for Part One of our conversation on the state of the Sales Profession, sales leadership, and getting started as a new sales manager. This shift requires not only a change in skills but also a fundamental shift in mindset.

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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.

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 25, 2020

Even before the rise of COVID-19, sales managers had what’s known as the “hardest job in sales.” As the rest of their organization pivots to manage the challenges of the coronavirus and establish strategies for rebounding from the crisis, sales managers also must shift.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? Responsibilities of a Sales Manager Qualities You Need To Go From Good To Great Sales Management Strategy for Sales Managers The Importance of Sales Coaching And Training What Does Sales Manager Success Look Like?

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 15, 2024

In this 5:44 video, Keith Rzucidlo emphasizes the importance of bringing data to the table and highlighting the risks of staying stagnant. Keith Rzucidlo, the Vice President of Sales at Miller Electric Manufacturing Co., In this case, the organization had a long-tenured sales force that had achieved significant success.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The real key to building a winning sales team is effective sales management. Are you wondering how to manage a sales team effectively? Well, you can get many tips, tactics, and strategies from various sales management books. Best sales management books you must read. Author- Kevin F.

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Engage Selling

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I recently worked with a client on a new program and got the opportunity to interview a few of their sales managers. I wanted to identify what differentiated top performing managers from poor performing managers.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 13, 2021

But before you do, you need to find a new sales manager to support the additional sales reps. Peter was your first business development rep hired in the sales department. He was promoted to sales development and currently, he is the senior SDR on the team. We all agree that growth is a good position to be in.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2023

For the consumers of Objective Management Group’s comprehensive data from the evaluations of nearly 2.4 million salespeople, read articles about the sales data To generate more new business, read articles about hunting and prospecting. For help with hiring better salespeople read articles about sales recruiting.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2023

For the consumers of Objective Management Group’s comprehensive data from the evaluations of nearly 2.4 million salespeople, read articles about the sales data To generate more new business, read articles about hunting and prospecting. For help with hiring better salespeople read articles about sales recruiting.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 7, 2019

The stats show what sales managers are doing but those managers are largely uninformed. John Pattison, Objective Management Group's COO, mined some data on salespeople who report to sales managers. I was appalled by what I saw.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 18, 2018

After reading a recent post from Dave Kurlan about The Latest Data Shows that Sales Managers Are Even Worse Than I Thought made me want to immediately publish a plea to company leaders and heads of sales to enable sales managers to do more and better coaching.

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Increase Sales

OCTOBER 14, 2014

As much as small business owners to sales managers would like to have their team demonstrating this sales leadership temperament of being dedicated, we know that is not reality. In reviewing my collected data from hundreds of small business professionals I found very few with this internal temperament.

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ClozeLoop

AUGUST 15, 2021

ClozeLoop's B2B Sales blog keeps you up to date with the latest in sales management, sales techniques, and sales enablement. View our amazing post "The Winning Zone - Rebecca Gebhardt, Sales Leadership Consultant on 2021 Leaderboard to Leadership Survey Data" by Hilmon Sorey.

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Increase Sales

APRIL 25, 2013

Yet for those who wish to be more effective in their sales leadership roles, this talent of evaluating others requires removing all biases and being forthcoming in an emotionally intelligent manner or what some may with diplomacy. The issue will be one of more time and more data to make those evaluations. Share on Facebook.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2014

The CEO said, "We really like what you do, your sales force evaluation is exactly what we need, the information, data, science and intelligence you provide is perfect for us, this is the right time to move forward, and we''re ready to go.". Always start with sales management. The sales force is like an Apple Pie.

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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?

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Speak to your customers regularly and implement their insights into your team’s sales processes to ensure that your customer’s needs align with how your team is selling your company’s product or service. As an executive, it’s your responsibility to ensure that your sales managers are coaching their reps effectively.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It’s challenging to work in sales management today. Sales managers often resemble Atlas, tasked with holding up the world as their areas of responsibility are ever-increasing: managing their team and market. delivering stronger sales results. Sales Organizations Continuously Reinvent Themselves.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Managers sit squarely at the intersection of these trends, yet for most organizations, sales management strategies have hardly changed. In fact, the changes that have occurred in the managerial ranks have intensified managers’ internal and administrative focus. It’s (Past) Time to Evolve Your Sales Management Strategies.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Your role is to lead and manage the business. Too much time spent managing data and calling reps out on little things leads to micromanagement. It will also prevent you from constantly looking at the data and sending panicked emails. Are you ready to take the leap from a good to a great sales leader?

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 15, 2021

Business acumen and business planning are becoming a much more necessary skill for sales reps and sales managers. The company’s business planning processes require sales reps to build annual business plans. The Head office should prepare any sales report or dashboard. Quarterly Business Reviews . Focus Forward.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2024

Sales Managers: Get Off Your Butt and Start Coaching Your Reps In today’s highly competitive sales industry, which has endless analytic tools and virtual interfaces, the role of the sales manager has quietly pivoted to that of a ‘dashboard coach.’

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

This article explores what a sales coach does. It covers how an effective sales coach can take a good or even mediocre sales force and make it great. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutions powered by the leader in private-company data. What does a sales coach do?

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Sales Leaders can drive better effectiveness in sales and achieve their team quotas faster by leveraging readiness data to assess the readiness of their reps and then working to drive the right knowledge, skills, and behaviors. Sales Managers as well as Sales leaders play a critical role to get teams ready and ramped up to sell.

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Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

The reality is much of the organizational structure for mid size to small businesses (SMB) today including having a sales manager is based on some of the practices of years gone by much larger companies with over 100 employees and multiple locations. Technology allows for data delivery and analysis far easier and faster.

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Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

The question only becomes more complex when you look at the data. The business case for a dedicated enablement function is powerful: 92% of companies acknowledge that the enablement function improves sales performance and, as a result, enablement budgets will increase 50% by 2027. There are typically two tiers to this.

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Braveheart Sales

MARCH 7, 2019

And to Dave Kurlan ( @ KurlanAssoc ) and Objective Management Group ( @ObjectiveMGMT ), thank you for providing the science and data that enables us to help so many sales organizations around the globe. 10 for 10 Sales Leadership Tips. Sales managers don’t have to have all the answers.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 30, 2018

The current level of sales management is failing companies. Average tenure of a sales leader has dropped from 26 months (bad) to 18 months (horrible). 80% plus want to meet with a sales person only after they have developed the need and a shortlist. of people say they trust very highly information from a sales person.

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The Spiff Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Today we’re continuing this conversation by sharing a preview of our latest research on sales commission. While the data we uncovered is concerning, it’s not surprising. Today we unveil some of our findings and attempt to unravel what this data means. Let’s get into it.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s no secret that data is running the world. For most businesses, data is critical to growth and expansion, and today they have access to a robust amount of data. More companies are relying on data to help them identify challenges, make timely decisions and impact their bottom lines. Align on team goals and strategy.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Sales Leaders can drive better effectiveness in sales and achieve their team quotas faster by leveraging readiness data to assess the readiness of their reps and then working to drive the right knowledge, skills, and behaviors. Sales Managers as well as Sales leaders play a critical role to get teams ready and ramped up to sell.

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CommercialTribe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Managers who consistently coach are better coaches…not because they necessarily were built that way but because they practiced the craft consistently and got better. We speak to many sales leadership development trailblazers who question whether their managers are capable coaches. What is Sales Coaching Consistency?

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