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25 Sales Experts on the Importance of Coaching Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

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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Sales Management Tips for Conducting Remote Sales Meetings

The Center for Sales Strategy

In addition to generating revenue and keeping their sales pipeline strong , sales managers are also tasked with running effective remote sales meetings. In our current work-from-home world, managers need to stay connected with sellers to conduct the following types of meetings: Sales meetings.

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Pipeline Cleanliness Playbook: Four Lessons Learned

InsightSquared

Pipeline cleanliness is critical to managing your reps, controlling your pipeline, and making an accurate forecast, but it’s a challenging and lofty goal. What does healthy pipeline production look like? Now that you’ve outlined pipeline cleanliness guidelines, you need to ensure your team adheres to them.

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New on the Sales Management Job? Here’s the Essential Technology

Pipeliner

A key factor in a sales manager’s approach is technology. Without the right technology, the sales manager isn’t going to even have the data to view, let alone interpret, and make decisions with. What does this mean for a sales manager newly on the job? Technology Guidelines.

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The 5 Steps of Sales Management – Where are you?

LevelEleven

Sales management is a journey. This framework is not set in stone; sales leaders should simply use the framework as a guide to show their current stage and what they must do to arrive at the next. This is where many sales teams find themselves – no focus on leading indicators, but an intense focus on closing deals.

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Never Let A Good Plan Get In The Way Of Success!

The Pipeline

While I have always been a proponent of a good sales process, and having a playbook to assist and improve execution, let’s not lose sight of the overall objective: Revenue! I worry when I see sales managers and leaders put a greater emphasis on process and playbook than results.

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Build a sales management process that works in 4 steps

Zendesk Sell

Maybe you’re a new sales manager, stepping out of your sales rep role and wanting to find the best management practices. Or maybe you have been managing a team for some time now but are struggling with hitting your targets. The right sales management process helps a sales team (and company) thrive.