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Pipeline Mastery: How the Best Coaches Convert Reluctance into Revenue

Steven Rosen

This crucial yet arduous task is often met with the same enthusiasm as a dreaded dental appointment, leading to avoidance behaviours that undermine pipeline health. 1- Increase Accountability Accountability is key to ensuring that individual sales reps are meeting their goals.

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How Sales Managers Get Set Up To Fail

Steven Rosen

In the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley stress the lack of coaching and support for sales managers, underscoring the need for coaching for these managers. Evaluating sales managers’ success should exceed sales quotas and include turnover and team development metrics.

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Book Notes: The Sales Manager Survival Guide

Sales 2.0

A classic issue in sales forces is promoting one of the top performing sales reps to the manager of a sales team, then having them fail in this new role. Per David Brock, a sales manager’s job is to be a coach. I’d say reps promoted to management have no idea that they need to learn to be a coach.

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How Can Pipeline Meetings Be a Coaching Opportunity?

Hubspot Sales

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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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 is not Cloning – Sales eXecution 266

The Pipeline

There has been lots written about the common mistake companies make in selecting new sales managers; specifically the habit of promoting some of their best sales people to the management ranks, whether they are suitable or not. What’s in Your Pipeline? Sales Execution Sales Success Tibor Shanto'

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Common Mistake When Promoting Salespeople to Sales Leaders (video)

Pipeliner

Our discussion revolved around sales archetypes and the challenges of transitioning from a salesperson to a sales leader. The Challenge of Transitioning from Salesperson to Sales Leader Matt and I delved into the common practice of promoting top-performing salespeople to sales leaders. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM.