Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Let’s look at some “opportunity” math. 60% of the opportunities we compete for end in no decision made! What if we set a goal of reducing the number of opportunities that customers abandon late in their buying process? We never even get exposure to those opportunities! Yet they fail!

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JUNE 26, 2023

As a sales manager, you've realized that the sales world is not a constant, static environment. Understanding the seasonal nature of sales is crucial for any business to thrive and adapt to the challenges and opportunities that arise throughout the year.

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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

MAY 5, 2022

Sales Manager Coaching. Effective sales manager coaching is one of the key levers that leading sales organizations utilize to achieve their revenue targets. Sales manager coaching is the #1 sales management activity that impacts performance. Coaching improves sales rep engagement.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” Similarly, if a sales manager is only spending 30 minutes a month coaching each of their reps, it’s unreasonable to think that manager is going to improve rep performance.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Discovery meetings are a vital tool for uncovering new business opportunities. In these conversations, sales managers and sellers have a unique chance to learn about potential clients, understand their challenges, and present solutions tailored to their needs.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 12, 2020

In this blog article, we discuss the best advice sales managers can give their salespeople, and that is to "keep moving." If you want to increase sales within your organization, you must keep moving throughout the ups and downs, the missed opportunities, the clients who "ghost" you, and more.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In this blog, we discuss the best habits of highly successful salespeople and sales managers. Being an extraordinary sales manager is grueling and time-consuming.

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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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SBI Growth

JANUARY 28, 2024

If you have ever run a sales meeting, you know that most salespeople aren’t thrilled to attend and prefer to spend time selling. 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.

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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. There is a direct and compelling link between frontline sales manager effectiveness and topline revenue performance.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 30, 2018

Davis Excellent sales managers aren’t made overnight. As a manager, you’re always learning and growing along with your sales team. Every team member has a unique reaction to your management style, and it takes a great manager to navigate all those unique situations and relationships. Author: Kevin F.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I dive into part two of my conversation with sales leadership expert Mike Weinberg on what new sales managers need to do to get off to a successful start. He credits Mary Gardner, the Area Vice President of his group, for fundamentally shaping his approach to sales leadership.

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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?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 17, 2019

In addition to that, I received a number of emails asking, what are the requirements for becoming a great sales manager? Now for sales management. Do you remember the first time you coached a salesperson on an opportunity they were unlikely to win and they won it because of your coaching?

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criteria for success

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here are 9 questions for sales managers to ask themselves (or for executives to ask their sales managers) as we forward in the new sales year. Is my sales process working? Regardless of when you developed your sales process, you should review it on a regular basis and update it where necessary.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

It’s always interesting to see how companies are adapting to the wildly-changing world of business, and it’s studies like these that help us as sales managers and sales directors to understand how we need to shape up for future business opportunities. Managing Director. MTD Sales Training. Happy Selling!

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Force Management

MARCH 16, 2023

For the modern sales organization, certain technologies are universal in the age of Sales 2.0. We rely on CRMs and continuous learning platforms to increase the efficiency of our sales force and drive organizational outcomes. One high-impact area where leaders are choosing to invest is manager enablement.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2018

Author: Kevin McGirl Sales managers have a tough job. A good sales manager needs to stay on top of their game at all times, and ensure that their team is focused, efficient and most importantly, profitable. Success in sales demands quick reflexes. It requires patience, agility, and a lot of motivational guidance.

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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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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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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Do you know how effective you sales managers are? The obvious place to start assessing your sales managers’ effectiveness is to evaluate the activity that has the greatest impact on sales rep performance. The problem is that sales executives are not in a position to observe their sales managers in action.

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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! Sean McPheat.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JUNE 14, 2023

To build a great sales team, you need a great leader. Talented and engaged managers coach and develop their teams, always improving the standards of performance. Highly effective sales managers also spend time on their own growth and development, seeking opportunities to learn and improve.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The topic of Sales management is very broad, and is covered in an infinite number of books, so we won’t be covering that here. There is also an endless list of material on sales management—and as anyone who has read my previous writings on the subject knows, I consider that management is management.

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The Sales Readiness Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Salespeople often spend too much time on opportunities that aren't qualified. So what can you do to help them better qualify those opportunities to win more deals and be more successfu l?

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

It’s not easy these days managing a sales team. So, what should sales managers concentrate on to still maintain some kind of control and bring about results that they are responsible for? 2) How consistent is my management style and techniques with them? Managing Director. MTD Sales Training.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The Sales Manager’s Success Guide. Even though I was a sales manager long before I had the opportunity to get involved in training, it was my work with trainers that help me appreciate not only the real challenges sales managers face, but their importance to a successful sales team executing their sales winning consistently.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 14, 2014

” Your West Coast Sales Manager has just resigned. He tells you he appreciates all you have done, but has found another opportunity. Sales Leader Director of Sales Resources Sales Manager' Typical start to the morning and then, you get “the call.”

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 7, 2018

Author: Gregg Schwartz Many people think sales management is complicated and mysterious, that there's some unknowable process to becoming a great sales manager, or that great sales managers are born, not made. Here are five choices that great sales managers make – and you can make these same choices too: 1.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here are a few considerations when addressing sales performance issues. Opportunity Cost: What happens when one of your sales people is not performing? Some of these processes can take 3 -6 months to determine whether the sales rep can address their performance gaps or if not are fired. Stay Focused on the Desired Result.

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The Pipeline

MAY 26, 2016

One of the great things in what I do is the opportunity to meet a range of thinkers and doers involved in sales and helping others sell better. Brock writes a book on a critical subject like sales management, it is an opportunity to learn and share with others in my circle.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 19, 2017

A sales manager on one of our leadership programmes was asked what he considered to be his biggest priority at work. This sales manager said something rather intriguing. That was because, if he managed to achieve a highly-motivated team, it was much easier to achieve his targets. Managing Director.

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