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Part 2: Coaching Your Team Post-Covid Recovery

Steven Rosen

In the pre-COVID days, sales managers would ride along with a sales rep for the day. They would observe calls, ask questions to help the sales rep evaluate what worked well and didn’t work, and have the rep come up with ways they would commit to improving their selling skills.

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Selling Skills

Partners in Excellence

They may be more narrowly focused on specific skills like objection handling, prospecting, closing, negotiation. But the one thing I seldom see in any formal training or development program is specific training on change and change management. Because what each of us is selling is change! And that’s remarkable!

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The 7 Most Critical Selling Skills in Wholesale Distribution

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Wholesale distributors are feeling urgency to change their sales models, a joint MDM/RLI research study shows. Many distributors have a field sales culture in markets where inside sales models may make more sense. Most Critical Skill Gaps. Only 1 percent are entirely inside sales. But there’s more to it.

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This Ex-Salesforce Veteran Reveals How He Transformed His Team’s Selling Skills

Gong.io

“We had a ton of inbound leads,” Paul told me with a serious look on his face. Having spent his career running sales teams at Salesforce.com, Paul Snelson now found himself leading the 70-rep sales organization at TouchBistro. Like many SaaS sales teams, Paul has a specialized sales model. What happened?

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Strategy is Sexy, Execution Sucks

Steven Rosen

We need to identify the critical success factors and narrow them down to three manageable items. “Change management is sales management, and that’s going to make the difference.” ” – Colleen Stanley Change management also plays a significant role in execution.

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A Hiring Guide for the New ‘A’ Player

SBI Growth

Oh, and while you have to face the challenge of ramping a new rep. We find numerous obstacles Sales VPs and Sales Managers face. Timing the market by switching out one rep for the other ‘over the weekend.’. This is called sales hiring gymnastics. It wastes time and costs sales.

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Virtual Selling: 4 Best Practices for Sales Leaders

Allego

Recently, Bob Basiliere, Vice President of Sales at Allego, and Wayne St. Amand, Chief Marketing Officer at Allego, joined Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder and CEO of SellingPower magazine, to explore this topic. Best Practices for Leading Virtual Sales Teams. 4 Virtual Selling Best Practices.