SBI Growth

JANUARY 28, 2024

However, with the right approach, sales meetings are an excellent opportunity to transform your team into high-performers fueled by a shared vision of success. Let’s look at what you can do as a sales manager to create an environment where your team actively participates, embraces new ideas, and emerges with a renewed sense of purpose.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do.

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MEDDIC

JANUARY 30, 2024

A New Course Helping Sales Leaders Building Teams The Why of the Inifinite Sales Leadership training You may wonder why the Infinite Sales Leadership course. This belief drove me to create “Infinite Sales Leadership.” Click here to begin your transformation today!

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Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2024

He shares insights on managing high-performing sales reps, emphasizing the need to understand their drivers and view their challenges as positive. Managing high-performing sales reps requires understanding and appreciating their drivers and demands rather than being threatened by their assertiveness.

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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. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 9, 2020

Poor leadership will cost you $3.5 million per sales manager. Message to Management: Your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople so they can do what they were hired to do—sell!”. But I don’t think any sales manager listened, because more than half of reps are still missing quota.

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Increase Sales

APRIL 17, 2012

Understanding motivational needs or what some call the prospect’s motives is a necessary sales leadership talent. Yet human motivation still remains a subject that provides angst to many individuals from employers to parents. Sales Training Coaching Tip: Money as an extrinsic motivator usually does not work.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 22, 2024

Over the past thirty-nine years, I have seen this at so many companies and with executives who believed they could apply DIY to any or all of the following ten functions: Evaluating their sales team – it is usually biased and limited to what they recognize as good.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 11, 2015

To start the year I thought I would share one of my favourite Sales Management Tips. Whether you are a new or tenured sales managers it is critical that you manage your own motivation. Welcome to management. In management the environment is less supportive and filled with stress.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 30, 2024

Stop Ignoring Your Frontline Leaders: It Could Be Costing You Millions In SaaS sales, the performance of first-line sales managers is pivotal. These managers are the key to driving the company’s revenue generation. The Impact of First-Line Sales Managers First-line sales managers oversee day-to-day sales operations.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 20, 2024

In this Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Gerilyn Horan , Hilton’s VP of Group Sales, shares strategies to become the best place to work In the world. Fostering a Coaching Culture Gerilyn recalled her early experiences with a boss who used intimidation as a management tactic, which she found demotivating and ineffective.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 23, 2024

In business, it’s often assumed that a person who excels as a sales rep will also be successful as a sales manager. As such, top sales reps are often promoted to sales managers and left to find their way into their new roles. What is sales management training? This approach simply doesn’t work.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 14, 2024

Byline: By sales leadership and coaching experts Colleen Stanley and Steven Rosen Introduction Welcome to the Sales Leadership Awakening Podcast, where we tackle the age-old issue of bridging the knowing and doing gap in the sales leadership realm.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When I first entered the sales profession, my sales manager provided a data dump of product info for me during onboarding. The next phase of my training was to shadow one of the senior sales reps for a few days. I learned how he did sales, both the good and the bad. The Fix: Don’t do your sales rep’s job for them.

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The Sales Readiness Blog

MAY 15, 2023

As a sales manager, you want your sales team to be motivated and work toward achieving business goals. While there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, understanding the six common factors that motivate salespeople can help you increase your sales team's motivation to achieve sales goals.

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 25, 2020

Even before the rise of COVID-19, sales managers had what’s known as the “hardest job in sales.” As the rest of their organization pivots to manage the challenges of the coronavirus and establish strategies for rebounding from the crisis, sales managers also must shift.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Author: Tim Houlihan Why we don’t know what motivates us best. Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2024

He shares insights on managing high-performing sales reps, emphasizing the need to understand their drivers and view their challenges as positive. Managing high-performing sales reps requires understanding and appreciating their drivers and demands rather than being threatened by their assertiveness.

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Nutshell

MARCH 31, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to stay up to date with the latest sales trends, keep up with your sales skills and knowledge, and continually build your management and leadership expertise. In this post, we’ll share some of our favorite resources for sales managers.

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Sales Manager Now

JULY 29, 2021

As a sales leader we make decisions on how to respond, act and behave based on what we see or perceive in our team. If we are not aware of which… The post Four Sales-Leadership Killers appeared first on Sales Manager Now. We use logic and emotions to drive our behavior.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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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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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

The individual and the manager jointly own training. ARTICLE In the world of sales leadership, one fundamental truth cannot be ignored: the people who make or break a team’s success. As a sales leader, you must ensure your team has the necessary training, coaching , and resources to excel.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

The individual and the manager jointly own training. ARTICLE In the world of sales leadership, one fundamental truth cannot be ignored: the people who make or break a team’s success. As a sales leader, you must ensure your team has the necessary training, coaching , and resources to excel.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 15, 2014

Are you a new sales manager? As Ken says, he wrote this book because he “wants to give first time sales […]. If so, my guess is you are excited and a bit overwhelmed all at the same time. As you navigate your new role, I recommend the new book Slammed!!! by Ken Thoreson.

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Sales Manager Now

MAY 7, 2021

Motivating others comes easy for some and can be more challenging for others. But there are moments we can provide an Eternal Motivator, but only if we act on……watch the video for the rest of the story. What can you… The post The Eternal Motivator appeared first on Sales Manager Now.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 6, 2024

In this episode of the Sales Leadership Awakening Podcast, host Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley delve into mastering difficult conversations, stressing preparation and agreement on the next steps. Emotional regulation is an essential skill for sales managers to develop. Empathy is crucial in difficult conversations.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 8, 2013

Welcome to Sales Leadership Friday! Starting today, on each Friday I will provide to you insights to generate thinking about sales leadership. A few of the topics I’ll be writing about in the coming weeks include: The role of the CEO in account management. Defining “sales leadership”.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 12, 2021

The best way to recognize great performance is by sending a handwritten motivational card. I believe there are two things that motivate most sales reps. If you want to differentiate yourself as a manager, handwriting personalized recognition cards are very motivating. Sales Management Training.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you’re new to the role of sales manager, you might not realize the power of providing coaching and skill development to your sales team. After all, one goal of any sales manager is creating a high-performing sales team with low turnover. Adopt a leadership style that suits your personality.

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Sales Manager Now

APRIL 1, 2021

Our best intentions don’t always lead to our best leadership practices but they can blind us from what’s not working. Here are 5 sales leadership sins you want to avoid. Doubting or not believing in your sales people. The first… The post 5 Sins of Sales Leadership appeared first on Sales Manager Now.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When the pandemic first hit, sales leaders scrambled to find ways to keep their teams motivated and successful while selling in a virtual environment. Today, sales leaders recognize that the shift to virtual selling will be with us for a while, if not permanently. The same rules apply when we are trying to motivate a team.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Sales leadership roles are some of the most lucrative, challenging, engaging positions sales professionals can pursue. There are certain qualities that most of — if not all — the best sales leaders have. Here, I'll review some of those key traits and offer a short quiz to see if you're sales leadership material.

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Increase Sales

MAY 27, 2014

Being a part of a team or a member of a group is a compelling motivating force and can also be viewed as a sales leadership talent. A salesperson who demonstrates this sales leadership talent “wants to feel that the people they work for/with respect them and in return have concern and respect for them as well.”

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 5, 2013

Sales leaders are quick to say how they can’t get people to do the things they want them to do. (If If I hear a sales leader say that too much, I no longer view them as sales leader, but rather a sales manager. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 6, 2013

How is your sales leadership during the month of December? Too many times, I hear from sales managers who are complaining about how customers are pushing things back to January due to the holidays. Instead, stay focused and demonstrate genuine sales leadership. ” Sales Motivation Blog. .

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? Responsibilities of a Sales Manager Qualities You Need To Go From Good To Great Sales Management Strategy for Sales Managers The Importance of Sales Coaching And Training What Does Sales Manager Success Look Like?

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