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. Targeting the right customers is crucial.

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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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Steven Rosen

APRIL 6, 2024

Practical strategies for delivering constructive feedback and fostering growth are shared, emphasizing the importance of stating intentions and fostering psychological safety. “If Emotional regulation is an essential skill for sales managers to develop. Another important aspect of giving feedback is stating your intention.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 28, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In military history, there has long been the concept of “Commander’s Intent.” Rather than giving orders that might try to dictate what to do in every possible situation, commander’s intent focuses on the outcomes they are trying to achieve in a certain operation. The second, related thing, is trust.

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The Spiff Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The variable component of success between great historic leaders and sales managers is exactly the same, and that variable is motivation. In relation to sales, let’s quickly walk through the transformation we assume most reps will undergo as they are promoted and attempt to become successful managers. Take it slow.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The latest interview between Jonathan Farrington, CEO of TopSalesWorld , and me is available here. We discussed why only 17% of all sales managers are effective at coaching and the conversation was very enlightening. DNA - They don''t have the DNA to support effective sales coaching.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key. Why Sales Training Programs Fail Most organizations use some type of LMS for onboarding new hires or retraining current staff.

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Highspot

APRIL 14, 2023

Sales training programs that educate and prepare your team to anticipate rather than react to challenging sales situations is key. Why Sales Training Programs Fail Most organizations use some type of LMS for onboarding new hires or retraining current staff.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 12, 2021

Here, we'll review some common sales coaching challenges, go over how to approach them, and identify the key qualities of reps that are flat-out uncoachable. One of the most common, contentious issues sales managers run into with sales reps is lack of motivation. How to Handle Coaching Challenges.

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Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years. Good Selling!

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Pipeliner

JULY 23, 2018

Advice for My Younger, Sales Manager Self. Part of why I am in this field, and why I excel at what I do, is because of the mistakes that I have made throughout my career, and my ability to help others not follow in my footsteps to becoming an effective sales leader, learning from my mistakes instead of making them themselves.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 18, 2013

Over the last 20 years at Anthony Cole Training Group, I''ve been privileged to work with thousands of sales people. This is what I have learned: The top 20% of sales people are top people because they embrace knowledge and know-how. The bottom 20% of sales people are not there intentionally; they need help.

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Keith Rosen

APRIL 17, 2019

The Manager’s Viewpoint. I start with great intentions. ” While this manager has good intentions, when patience is lost, so is coaching and trust. So, when my boss tells me, “You learned all of this during your onboarding and initial training,” it makes me feel like an idiot. “I Without her con?dence

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Tony," you might be asking, "what does this have to do sales management and sales management tools?" Well, reader," I''m thinking, "it has a lot to do with sales management and sales tools, and it also gives me a chance to reflect on my dad and my youth spent on the farm."

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Pipeliner

MARCH 5, 2018

I’ve always maintained that a truly great person responsible for a team of sales professionals doesn’t “manage” at all. Traditional sales “managers” spend their time enacting what the sales discipline prescribes. how to manage their sales funnel more productively. how to author a good sales proposal.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Sales Managers – it’s what you say and how you say it. A hallmark of a great sales manager is being a good communicator. For example, front-line sales managers are the critical screens through which messages travel from top management to the sales team. ©2013 Sales Momentum ®.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 5, 2015

As I continue to think about habits of sales people and the role of the sales manager in identifying, assessing and “correcting” habits, I keep looking for additional information that might be additive to this string of articles. Ike sent me a link to a survey that was done regarding the hunt for sales managers/directors.

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Sales Training Connection

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Sales managers and developing trust. Sales managers must develop the trust of their sales team and help their team members to trust each other. Because of all this we are always looking for ideas that can help sales managers do a better job in developing trust. ©2014 Sales Momentum ®.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 13, 2018

How to Dominate With Sales Management Mastery. Sales management mastery is no easy task. Sales managers have one of the most important jobs in a selling organization. Do Good Salespeople Make Good Sales Managers? Sales management requires a different set of skills from salespeople.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

AUGUST 21, 2018

SCENARIO: For the first time in a long time, you have sales positions open, but the most talented salespeople likely are already employed elsewhere. Well, this scenario is one managers often find themselves in. 4 Habits of Highly Successful Sales Managers Who Retain Their Top Performers.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 20, 2021

Soft skills sales training is becoming just as important as the hard skills training, we are most familiar with in the world of training. We know we live in unprecedented times but most of all, when it comes to the sales profession, these are times of profound change. Soft Skills Sales Training Checklist.

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Keith Rosen

JUNE 22, 2013

Regardless of the country or the number of times I’ve delivered my management coach training, I know there are certain inevitable questions that managers will ask. The first question I always hear by the second day of this training is, “Keith, is my boss taking this course? Undeniably, the answer is YES!!!

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This did get me thinking about sales managers who raise an issue in their team meetings and then go about answering it. And if that doesn’t work, they make enough points to make it clear to the sales team what they believe the right answer is. Plus, the sales team is less likely to get support for the solution.

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Keith Rosen

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This manager is like a heat-seeking missile, searching out problems to solve, and results to achieve. It’s the eternal conundrum of promoting your top-salesperson into a management role without any management coach training. The most common of all managers, the Perfect Manager possesses some wonderful qualities.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 15, 2024

As leaders, we are responsible for appealing to the broadest audience possible, recognizing that our team members may have different preferences. “I don’t think people intentionally say, we’re gonna make it a rational argument and stick away from the emotion. I just think they’re wired that way.”

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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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Steven Rosen

MARCH 29, 2016

Sales Manager Development. The Key to Building a World-Class Sales Organization. I recently had a meeting with a dynamic VP of Sales. Lisa shared her vision of building a world-class sales organization and asked me where she should start. Lisa was intent on developing her sales management team.

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Showpad

APRIL 9, 2021

Not only are the techniques that sellers deploy different today, but remote training requires a unique set of best practices as well. Sales training is just one of the many organizational functions that can be enhanced through the use of technology. The goal isn’t to recreate in-person training environments online.

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Highspot

JUNE 1, 2023

Major advances include: generative AI for sales enablement, enterprise-class training and coaching, and ​​services and success resources that empower revenue teams to scale what good looks like in business-to-business (B2B) selling. Companies everywhere are intent on increasing efficiency, which requires running programs with rigor.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In this blog post, we dive into the 5 Keys to Successful Sales Coaching & Growth and the idea that data can help you discover real-time information about your salespeople. This data allows everyone in your organization to make real-time decisions and real-time and intentional coaching decisions.

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Adaptive Business Services

JULY 8, 2020

In the last few weeks, many sales managers are deciding whether their teams should return to the office or stay home. i] Even though this is the case, many managers resort to monitoring technologies. Yet, as sales managers, is the team’s goal to sit at their desks or meet their sales targets?

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Anthony Iannarino

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Intentional to Unintentional. Effectiveness is mostly a result of intent. Starting your day with a solid morning routine is to exercise your intent, but what comes after may not be. You might decide to open your email inbox straight away, shifting into a reactive mode after just being intentional with your time and energy.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Many sales managers are in the wrong job, and for the wrong reasons, the intentions may have right, even noble, but outcome serves neither in individuals in question, the companies and customers. Worse, often they are not prepared or trained for sales management. Tibor Shanto'

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 1, 2018

Davis In a SMMConnect webinar I delivered to over 100 sales managers recently, I talked about eight instincts they developed as salespeople that are now harming their effectiveness as team leaders. Interestingly, about 30 percent of the participants said that the sales instinct they struggle with the most is “avoiding conflict.”.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 6, 2018

Most sales managers don’t recognize this and assume that just because their reps have 30 opportunities in their pipeline they can work intently on these and forget about generating new business opportunities. Summary: Stay on top of your sales pipeline metrics. 1) % of opportunities in negotiation: .

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 14, 2014

You often hear sales managers and director speak of how they are doing against their KPI’s. In the wrong hands, with wrong intents, the best concepts can come back to bite you; in sales it is usually the disconnect between what’s being measured and the desired results. What do you want me to cut?” “No Tibor Shanto .

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