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How New Sales Managers Can Build Trust With Their Sales Team

Janek Performance Group

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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Sales Managers – Why Isn’t Goal Setting Easy?

Anthony Cole Training

Yes, the tenets for success was still based on a formula of sales steps and conversion ratios from one step to the next, but. As I write this, maybe I should change the title to “Sales Managers – Why Isn’t Goal Achievement Easy?” Resources: Personal Goal Setting Workshop.

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Making the Most of Regional Pricing Meetings

Distribution Pricing Journal

At the risk of alienating some of our sales managers in our audience – bear with us – pricing managers don’t always trust direct feedback from individual reps. This isn’t an indictment of sales reps, it’s simply the case that 90% of the feedback a pricing manager gets from sales reps sounds like, “the price is too high.”

Meeting 52
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"Old Tools" Work Really Well in Sales Management

Anthony Cole Training

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." The key is to be effective.

Tools 196
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Why the Best Sales Leaders Always Set the Standard for Team Meetings

SalesLatitude

With so much time and money spent to get your sales team together, as the sales leader, shouldn’t you set the standard by engaging with your team and being present? I often facilitate a variety of meetings, team building programs and workshops. constantly walking in and out of the meeting, never truly participating.

Meeting 73
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"American Icon" Has It Right for Sales Managers

Anthony Cole Training

I stopped reading, highlighted the passage and made the following note: “This pertains to sales managers and sales professionals in their relationship AND should also be applied to sales professionals and buyer relationships!”. How does this fit in sales and sales management?

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Become a Top Sales Manager with These 6 Essential Tips

SalesLatitude

The first-line sales manager is one of the most rewarding, yet overworked positions in the sales chain. Client and team meetings, account and territory planning, financial and administrative work, management requests, and sales rep coaching are just a few of the sales manager’s responsibilities.