Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2024

Sales Managers: Get Off Your Butt and Start Coaching Your Reps In today’s highly competitive sales industry, which has endless analytic tools and virtual interfaces, the role of the sales manager has quietly pivoted to that of a ‘dashboard coach.’

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SBI Growth

MARCH 22, 2013

This post is about developing Sales Leadership. In particular, the front-line Sales Manager - a critical role responsible for marshaling a team of revenue makers. This post includes a downloadable Sales Leader Curriculum. This tool is perfect for HR Business Partners who serve the Sales function.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 9, 2013

If your company isn’t looking for sales leadership today, just wait. The average tenure of a Sales VP is 19 months! This post explores what HR leaders can do to develop top internal sales leaders. A tool is available for download – a full syllabus of Sales leadership courseware.

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Allego

JANUARY 17, 2023

Listen as Melissa discusses how her knowledge of karate helps with her learning and development career, what it takes to successfully implement sales enablement technology , and why sellers must have strong virtual selling skills. Episode 56: Developing Virtual Sales Confidence | Melissa Finnegan. From This Episode.

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The Brooks Group

JANUARY 5, 2017

You can sell, or you can manage—but you can’t do both at once. What it will do is detract from your time to coach and cultivate their selling skills. Keep your leadership focus by tracking leading indicators, and intervening when necessary with targeted coaching. . The 5 Fundamental Skills of World-Class Sales Managers.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 31, 2022

Here, Justin addresses how virtual selling has changed the sales environment, including the technical skills required, the new mindset, and essential guidelines, such as virtual backgrounds, lighting, and eye contact. In addition, he highlights how the tools of virtual selling can foster greater collaboration.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 21, 2013

The secret to hiring a great sales leader is the ‘A’ Player Scorecard. Get it free here and nail your next sales leadership hire. Your next sales manager needs modern skills to make the number. He needs capabilities like social selling , buyer-centric selling and big data for sales.

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Allego

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many of those sharing their expertise were guests on Allego’s The Adapter’s Advantage podcast during the year, including Jennifer Stanley, Partner at McKinsey & Company; Terry Coutsolioutsos, Commercial Leader at Siemens Healthineers North America; and Ryan Thompson, Senior Director of Global Sales Training at Medtronic.

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criteria for success

MARCH 17, 2021

By this point, your new hire should be actively prospecting and selling, and it’s important to make sure they haven't fallen into any old habits, but are instead sticking to your process. This evaluation should focus on your process and products or services, rather than selling skills. Evaluate Your Team’s Selling Skills.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 29, 2021

Salespeople now have to figure out how they can adapt to rapidly changing selling conditions, and sales training must match those challenges. The onus is on sales leadership, sales enablement and coaching to meet this challenge. Teach them Soft Sales Skills. Listening to them, not telling them.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

These findings highlight the need for salespeople to monitor and adapt to the constantly evolving business landscape, honing the necessary skills of the moment. How Does Sales Enablement Enhance Sales Skills and Sales Techniques? It includes mastering product knowledge and refining communication skills.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

If your sales process isn’t formalized, adopted AND aligned to the actual customer buying process, then it’s time for redesign. Tools still don’t sell (at least not yet.). Dreamforce is a bonanza of RevOps tools with hundreds on the Expo floor. Sales enablement tools most certainly help. Now is the time!

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Allego

JULY 28, 2022

Magnacca was one of four Allego executives featured on the IT Visionaries Podcast, The Sales Development Podcast, Sales Enablement with Andy Paul, Salesman.org Podcast, Sales Leadership Conversations Podcast, and The Sales Hacker Podcast. Selling Today Is Hybrid—and We Won’t Be Going Back.

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Vengreso

APRIL 4, 2022

In this article, we will dive into a host of items to help you elevate your LinkedIn profile, get it in a prime position to attract more clients or customers, and help you transform it into a powerful lead generation tool! Why is it Important to Use LinkedIn for Social Selling and Business Development? Most of them, right? We got you.

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MEDDIC

MARCH 11, 2022

I believe the above examples show where the real pain is: It’s not in the tools; we have already flooded sales teams with tools. The problem is that too many sellers don’t know how to sell. Lack of sales skills combined with the illusion of knowledge due to the excessive use of tools leads to low quota attainment.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2020

(We have some tactics for sales motivation to get you started.). ?? Are reps currently following your company’s sales process? How can the alignment between the sales process and the buyer’s journey be documented? ?? How has the sales leadership team supported the reps? What else can be done to provide support? ??

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Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

Valuable information about using social selling to get more leads, increase deal sizes and close deals. What is Social Selling? Social selling is the art of using social media tools to locate, contact, and nurture potential leads, enhancing the accomplishments of sales teams.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The six elements of a perfect sales meeting. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Emotional Intelligence(EQ) , Guest Post , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Meetings. Do you dread the weekly sales team meeting? Sales Bloggers Union.

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Allego

JANUARY 28, 2021

“It’s the soft skills that help you with the execution of the hard skills.”. Two of Stanley’s books, Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success and the recently-published Emotional Intelligence for Sales Leadership , are directed specifically at the value of emotional intelligence. . But what exactly is EQ?

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The Digital Sales Institute

JUNE 5, 2020

Any form of online learning will provide a flexible tool for employees to use that supports their own ownership for self-improvement. Today, keeping salespeople updated and refreshed on selling skills can be a significant challenge for many companies. Practice over Luck.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Under this pressure, sales enablement leaders often turn to technology solutions like learning management systems (LMSs) that aren’t built for the unique needs of salespeople. In this blog, we’ll talk through why you can’t effectively enable your salesforce with an LMS or onboarding tool. An LMS is not built for sales enablement.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Under this pressure, sales enablement leaders often turn to technology solutions like learning management systems (LMSs) that aren’t built for the unique needs of salespeople. In this blog, we’ll talk through why you can’t effectively enable your salesforce with an LMS or onboarding tool. An LMS is not built for sales enablement.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sales success isn’t so much about selling skills, techniques and approaches. It isn’t about the tools we use, how we are engaging socially. While all these things are important and necessary to our success as sales professionals and leaders, fundamentally, success in sales is about caring.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 17, 2011

CAUTION: One of the biggest and most fatal mistakes that salespeople make is “waiting” for someone else to give you sales tools. NO, that’s not how great sales are made. Great impressions are made, great sales are made – and made often – with tools you give it to yourself. Share this Post.

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Showpad

JULY 25, 2019

In this blog post, we’ll explore three of the top challenges front line Sales managers face, based on this new, exclusive sales enablement research. The three top challenges of today’s front line Sales managers are: Tough transition from rep to manager. The pace of business doesn’t allow for Sales people to be properly trained.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Sales Gravy is an internationally recognized sales training and acceleration firm catering to the career development needs of salespeople and sales leaders. On Jeb’s YouTube channel you’ll find video content related to everything from sales leadership to women in sales. 2. Sales Hacker.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 12, 2023

What I see so often is that long sales cycles stress out the sales leadership team. But if you look deeper, you can ask: “How well can the sales team get to the core issues of the buyer and diagnose a business problem? The best onboarding programs work because of fully aligned sales managers.

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SBI

APRIL 24, 2012

After an inspiring opening by Bob Perkins, AA-ISP Founder and CEO, Jill Konrath got the audience roaring with her skit that deftly demonstrated the reality of today’s sales world, all the while making a very serious point. The Summit is the only conference dedicated exclusively to Inside Sales Leadership.

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Carew International

JUNE 20, 2019

It is easy to get caught up in the statistics of sales and marketing, but often we do so in a misguided attempt to ensure success through some sheer volume of activity. And despite their terrific benefits, marketing and sales automation tools have also enabled the quantity-over-quality mindset.

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Mereo

JUNE 9, 2022

Your sales team morale is worth the travel expense. Opportunities for sales leadership to invest in their teams over the last couple years have dwindled — and sales teams have felt the effects. Rain-checked are the days when sales teams gathered at a mixer after a training event.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It can get overwhelming more often than expected but a good sales leader never falls behind. They just know what needs to be done and put the tools at their disposal to good use. . It’s true that while a lot of successful salespeople have innate selling skills , nothing can beat one’s determination to learn, improve, and excel.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For starters, their ability to do research before a sales meeting on each decision-maker. In addition, will they have the modern selling skills needed to engage with their modern buyer? It is during this time, we are quickly able to evaluate their pre-sales motions and assess strengths and weaknesses. Think about it.

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Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 6, 2013

Selling Skills – They never developed the kind of selling skills that would allow them to role-play all of the various scenarios that are bound to come up. If you would like to master the art and science of sales coaching, join me on May 14-15 in Boston for our highly-acclaimed Sales Leadership Conference.

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criteria for success

JULY 15, 2021

Daily or every-other-day check-ins can be a great tool in this stage! Selling skills are improving, and salespeople come to you to develop plans when they see a potential threat. And a consistent monthly prospecting plan will maintain a flow of leads into the pipeline regardless of individual wins and losses. What’s not working?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Sales Gravy is an internationally recognized sales training and acceleration firm catering to the career development needs of salespeople and sales leaders. On Jeb’s YouTube channel you’ll find video content related to everything from sales leadership to women in sales.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

When a sales rep doesn’t have the necessary selling skills, leaders have options. Then, we’re discussing why skill alone isn’t enough in sales and how you, as a sales leader, can create a more motivated sales force. What is the skill vs. will matrix? The same goes for your sales organization.

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Klozers

JULY 29, 2016

Unlike most other positions in a business, Sales People are often the most difficult to find, hire and retain, but they are an essential part of any B2B sales machine. Sales & Professional Selling itself can seem complicated as there are so many different areas of sales, and Sales Leadership is no different.

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