Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 13, 2023

Today I will cover one of the ways we at Anthony Cole Training Group, LLC coach sales managers to help them coach their salespeople to have more and better initial sales calls: Your USA! USA is the terminology we use at Anthony Cole Training Group as part of our Effective Selling System (ESS).

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone. Sales Managers don’t want to coach because it takes away from personal sales.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the past, onboarding involved sitting in a room and listening to your manager explain the role. Virtual training has often become the default. So, what type of training makes sense? Let’s review what virtual training is, the best practices, and how to run a virtual training program. Be prepared.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. These results were due entirely to sales manager skills, independent of the skills of their salespeople.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 1, 2024

Whether it’s Catholics who the Priest referred to, Jews that I referenced, various other Christian denominations, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and more, we are all members of a group – a congregation, and a religion. They should be attending weekly training. They should be reading about sales.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 25, 2024

We rely on the pioneer and #1 sales management evaluation by Objective Management Group to help understand exactly what it takes to ‘motivate’ a sales team. What are the competencies and behaviors of those leaders who seem so talented at helping others achieve their very best?

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

How come so many sales managers who are highly intelligent and experienced are still unable to motivate their teams to achieve great results? What happens to great salespeople so that when they become sales managers they fall by the wayside? Managing Director. MTD Sales Training. Happy Selling!

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. Frontline sales managers coach, influence and guide sales reps on a daily basis.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Like in a post-apocalyptic movie, sales heroes valiantly fought a formidable foe, developing and broadening their skills to combat the challenges of uncertain markets, supply-chain chaos, rising inflation, and the great resignation. Here are the top sales training trends to watch in the coming year: Delivery Methods.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

In the past decade, attention has shifted from seller activity to sales manager activity as a key driver of performance. Companies are realizing that sales success isn’t driven solely by sales rep performance, but also by effective sales management. Management Matters. Well, kind of.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 26, 2023

This year, we're celebrating a huge milestone- 30 Years of Anthony Cole Training Group. In 1993, Linda and Tony Cole decided to start their own training and development company. In this video, Tony shares 5 things that have helped us grow and serve others in these 30 years.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Companies are spending more money on sales force evaluations, sales training, consulting, sales leadership development, sales process, infrastructure and sales recruiting services than 5 years ago. There were some very good salespeople and sales managers among the mix of the total population of candidates.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

If you cannot see that your sales team is failing to execute the fundamentals of an effective sales approach then surely this will kill your changes for consistent sales growth. Effectiveness as a sales manager requires many skills, tendencies and attributes. Managing Performance. Motivating. Upgrading.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? Many organizations’ sales training has grown stale by relying on old-school tactics, like on-site boot camps and long-winded presentations, causing information overload for new reps.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 3, 2024

Dennis Connelly, Derek Baer and I were sharing our experiences coaching salespeople, sales managers and sales leaders, and comparing those who were and weren’t coachable. The data from Objective Management Group’s (OMG) assessment of 2.5 It wasn’t personal.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you are a new sales manager, building trust with your sales team is your first challenge. Without trust, progress will be slowed and time is a luxury few new sales managers have. If you have ever worked for a sales manager you didn’t trust, you know how stressful that sales role can be.

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Allego

JULY 20, 2022

A sales rep schedules a meeting with a prospect, but then they receive a request to attend a training session for the exact same time. Sales training is critical. The best solution: Implement a sales training program that allows for both. Sales organizations “should empower sellers to take the call.

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criteria for success

MARCH 2, 2022

There are many aspects to sales development. And all great sales managers know that when it comes to sales development, opportunities for growth are endless. When we talk to sales managers about sales development, we tend to get some similar questions: Where is the best place to start? Where to Start.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 21, 2014

And he said, "But we don''t want to evaluate everyone right now, we want to start with our sales management team.". Small and mid-market companies don''t usually request this particular approach because their management teams are usually quite lean and it doesn''t make sense for them to take this approach. I hate being right.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Now the economy is growing again and you are looking to hire more sales talent for your team. The bad news is your sales managers have maxed out their bandwidth with their current responsibilities and daily activities. This leaves you with a critical decision regarding how to ramp up the new sales hires.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 20, 2014

Think sales training is unnecessary? Sales execs expect to hire the best, brightest, and most connected salespeople they can find—reps who will hit the ground running and bring in big deals in record time. The idea is that companies can increase sales effectiveness by simply hiring the right people in the first place.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan An interesting article, Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers , by Xactly's CEO, Christopher Cabrera, was posted on Selling Power's 2/19/13 blog. Here's why: He said to hire for characteristics and train for competencies. So, what are the correct competencies?

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Allego

JUNE 22, 2021

I love combining my experience as a healthcare provider with the selling and training aspects of a medical device company.” ” Allego: What is training like at CooperVision? This approach supports the development of our sales team so they can live the CooperVision purpose to ‘help improve the way people see each day.’

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One very effective method for teaching this skill is through problem solving group activities. They’re much more engaging than simply listening to everyone in the group stating their names, and help avoid the awkward “think of an interesting fact about yourself”, too. How do problem-solving games work? Time: 10 – 15 minutes.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 4, 2013

Is training your sales team a waste of time and money? Sales training is not an event; it’s a behavioral change. Many sales leaders schedule training sessions, pat themselves on the back for investing in their teams, and consider their mission accomplished. Is Your Training DOA? Quite possibly.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 16, 2022

Anyone in charge of a company’s sales success knows a sales team is only as good as its members. Like any group of individuals that comes together for a common cause, if a sales team is going to succeed consistently, reps and management must operate in a culture that motivates individuals to perform at their best.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 20, 2021

Peer Group Discussion and Coupled with Leadership Coaching Will Pump you Up! Sales leaders need to remember that they, too, must regularly upgrade their leadership skills. The most effective ways are networking with a peer group of like-minded sales leaders who face similar challenges and utilizing a sales leadership coach.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 11, 2023

They also had lost their sales manager to another health issue. I agreed to do so and we also discussed me providing sales training to whoever we might hire. This included putting him on Nimble CRM and teaching him how to leverage that platform to increase his sales. This would include implementing Nimble CRM.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This is from the deep data warehouse of Objective Management Group, our partner and the pioneer of the sales assessment. Unfortunately, we also know that less than 10% of sales managers are considered highly effective at this critical role of coaching.

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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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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Most organizations believe that their most successful sales people will make great sales managers. This thinking leads them to believe that you do not need training. A recent study showed that only 11% of organizations train their sales managers. Sales Manager Killers.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The loyalty and dedication your sales team has in following you, is fragile and it does not take much to lose their respect. Below are three sales management blunders that you must avoid. #1. There are often times when you need to criticise or correct a sales person’s actions. MTD Sales Training.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 19, 2022

Congratulations, you are now a sales manager. Earning the title of sales manager is an important step in your sales career, regardless of the size of your sales team. There is plenty that new sales managers need to learn on their journey to become a sales leader. Trust is reciprocal.

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SBI

JANUARY 28, 2020

6 Ways Sales Enablement Leaders can Gain Sales Management Support. Sales Enablement is generally focused on assisting individual sellers with less focus placed on others in the organization. “ Sales Enablement supports the sales team to move buyers to a decision point. Sales technology.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 29, 2020

They host monthly sales talks that provide opportunities to learn, collaborate, and connect with growth minded professionals seeking to achieve excellence in the realm of B2B sales. London Enterprise Sales Forum ). Join the elite community shaping the future of technology sales.

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