Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

With those unique circumstances in mind, the importance of effective sales training cannot be overstated. In this blog post, we’ll outline the unique challenges faced in pharmaceutical sales training and provide practical solutions. What are some challenges in pharmaceutical sales training?

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

A good coach knows how to communicate, motivate and personalize each sales associate’s training, so the sales team repeatedly delivers results. 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.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Train AI in sales, and you’ll join 81% of salespeople surveyed who agree that AI significantly reduces their manual tasks and data entry workload. There’s a lot to consider, including bias, data management, permissions, and more. Thoughtful execution ensures AI can be trained correctly. But how do you do that ethically?

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Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sales training can be like sailing the high seas – an always-on adventure where focus, navigation, and teamwork are vital. We’ve curated a collection of the best sales training tips so you can build a program that will put wind in your team’s sails to navigate an uncertain selling landscape and outperform every quarter.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. Why sales training is important. or a 353% ROI.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 11, 2020

However, that inherent talent isn’t the norm since most skilled sales agents started as novices and honed their talents over time. Contrarily, a subpar platform can actively detract from the operational efficiency and performance of the sales department. Sales is extremely dependent on collaboration with complementary teams.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 15, 2022

Yes, your first responsibility is to increase the skill of the sales reps on the team. But just as important, your training also impacts your customers, the company’s revenue, and possibly your shareholders’ investment in your company. What is Sales Training and Development?

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Allego

APRIL 30, 2024

This article originally appeared in Training Industry. In the competitive landscape of modern business, staying ahead requires more than just traditional sales tactics. Training Assessments: Generative AI sales enablement platforms can automatically build quizzes based on training videos and their transcripts.

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BrainShark

MAY 3, 2022

Building and maintaining an effective sales training program is a difficult and continuous process. Brainshark , a Bigtincan company, is a sales enablement solution that: Makes creating training content easy. Helps you track sales reps’ learning progress. How long will your training materials be?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Sales skills like how to have a good discovery call, pricing and negotiation is like physical exercise – you need to learn the techniques from subject matter experts (SMEs) and then practice repeatedly to gain muscle memory. Part of that is mixing it up so it’s not staid and the exercises are not too easy.

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Mindtickle

MAY 10, 2022

Sales training and coaching are often reserved for new hires and low performers, with the rest of your team getting a brief refresher during your annual sales kickoff. But according to the Sales Management Association, only 30% of sales managers rate their sales training as “effective” for improving low performers.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

A coach might find it helpful to point a sales rep to specific resources or develop an action plan for them. How Does Sales Coaching Differ From Sales Training? Sales coaching differs from sales training because it’s personalized. This style of training takes some of the burden off sales managers.

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Showpad

JUNE 27, 2022

You’ve given them all the training you possibly can, and now it’s time to release them into the wild. Have you heard of this thing called sales readiness? If you read that and thought, “surely a highly-trained team is ready for anything?” Welcome to the world of sales readiness. Let’s break down sales readiness.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Recently, enablement has flexed to provide better support for sales in the face of the post-pandemic business environment and increasingly demanding technology buyers. Sales enablement can teach product knowledge, but soft skills are harder to nurture. Train Early, Often, and in Small Doses. Customize Training for Individuals.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Our fifth and final installment of CPQ Perspectives focuses on the sales manager—those folks who oversee the selling operation. Sales management is full of challenges, and we can’t possibly touch on every issue that affects sales managers in this blog post. What matters to sales managers?

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Jeffrey Gitomer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Online Training. Getting into sales for the money. sales training meeting for a car dealership, I asked 30 salespeople how many of them drove the brand of car that they sold. Learning is not a passive exercise; it requires work. Sales Management. Sales Videos. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey.

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Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It’s not the first time you’ll hear this, and it’s not the last: training new sales reps is crucial. But the most vital thing to remember is that training isn’t just for onboarding. Ongoing training and continuous development are crucial to a rep’s and an organization’s success. Training isn’t just for onboarding.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

But today, buyers put less trust in us than they ever have, market competition is fiercer than ever, and these traits no longer separate the best salespeople from merely good ones. These are the skills your sales team needs to survive. In effect, the manager aims to create a team of mini-me's who will sell and act the way they do.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 29, 2016

Many jobs don’t offer a clear role progression, but in sales, you know exactly what job titles are in front of you. If you’re a sales manager at an early-stage startup eyeing your next move up, your goal is probably to become Head of Sales, Vice President of Sales, or Chief Revenue Officer.

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Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

Jump to whichever section fits your needs: What Is Sales Negotiation Why Is Sales Negotiation Important? 7 Sales Negotiation Strategies to Close More Deals Sales Negotiating Training Example Sales Negotiating Training Program Work With Sales Enablement to Provide Negotiation Materials and Training What is Sales Negotiation?

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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MJ Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives. To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures. After all, the manager can’t reverse the change.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Sales eXchange – 119. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , HR Management , Hiring Sales Talent , Proactive , Sales eXchange , execution. We often do an exercise with teams centered on expectations of roles, the frontline reps and their managers. Who’s Expectations? What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The benefits of fractional resources and part-time employees were also discussed, along with the importance of cross-training and having backups for key roles. Time Management and the Myth of Multitasking Golden and Nieuwenburg also tackled the challenges of time management and the impact of distractions on productivity.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 30, 2018

This is the equivalent of sales managers telling their salespeople that they “really need to make their quota.” Either way, the sales manager has committed coaching malpractice. At the same time, it’s a well-known fact that revenue targets have risen: A double blow to the hardworking sales manager and sales rep.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 21, 2011

In October 2010, McKinsey & Company published an interesting white paper – Getting more from your training programs. The focus was on optimizing the results from the $100 billion that world-wide companies spend every year on performance skill training in areas ranging from performance management to sales techniques.

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SBI

JUNE 15, 2021

In the less-than-ideal world we live in, enterprises get frustrated with their sales coaching attempts. It’s no surprise that some people wonder whether sales coaching is really worth the hassle. Obstacle #1: not enough time In the vast majority of companies, sales managers bear responsibility for coaching employees.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 25, 2015

Given the substantial amount of money that companies commit to training every year, the notion of learning more about how to get it right is a question of interest. When asked about their companies’ biggest challenge with training programs, the respondents reported that the one growing most in concern was the lack of metrics.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

How Does Sales Readiness Differ From Sales Enablement? How Sales Readiness and Sales Training Go Hand in Hand Why Does Sales Readiness Matter? Four Pillars of Sales Readiness Getting Started with Sales Readiness The Power of Sales Preparedness What Is Sales Readiness?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 13, 2013

Remaining effective as a sales force means continuous improvement. This might be a new buyer-aligned sales process. Or training to add emerging practices to your sellers’ skill sets. Or sales recruiting to staff a new go-to-market channel. HR and Sales leaders will often tie funding to the type of improvement.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2021

Whether you’re taking up a new hobby or developing on-the-job skills in a sales role, it’s true what they say: Practice makes perfect. There’s only so much that a seller can digest through sales onboarding and training content — and in order for a rep to truly hone their skills, they must practice. 8 Types of Sales Role-Play.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2022

For sales organizations, change is inevitable. Even the most seasoned sales reps require ongoing training (what we at Mindtickle refer to as “sales everboarding” ) to keep pace with these changes – and ensure they always have the latest and greatest knowledge and skills they need to sell. And it makes a big difference.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 17, 2019

Now, look at his advice: To become a sales manager, you essentially need to become an extension of your HR team — something every employee can do to make a positive impact on the organization. Of course, I also wanted feedback from industry veterans — the folks who are training & coaching sales management teams around the globe.

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Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Reflect on how you can further develop and utilize these skills to achieve your future vision of becoming a sales manager or starting your own business. For example, you may be interested in learning about digital marketing strategies and techniques to enhance your online presence and reach a wider audience.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

HR is done with the new-hire training. Most sales managers do not identify the key metric for onboarding success. Most onboarding programs focus on a mixture of internal processes and product training. A sales manager should define a set of onboarding activities that drive the right selling behavior.

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Lessonly

MARCH 3, 2020

What are 5 elements of a successful sales training program? The best sales training programs shape your team’s culture, provide access to microlearning, reinforce what matters, relate directly the necessary day-to-day tasks, and last but not least, flex and evolve with your team. Because sales training is important. .

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Sales Training Advice

MAY 29, 2017

In other cases the problem is overconfidence in himself or lack of confidence in you, the sales manager. Whatever the reason, sales managers are only as successful as their ability to train reps to be successful. Many years ago I managed a B2B telemarketing staff and ran into serious training issues.

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