Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In this 2:56 video, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the need for sales managers to go beyond setting sales goals and to define learning goals for their teams. They share how organizations can align learning goals with sales goals and invest in training and resources to support their salespeople.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 4, 2021

By moving greater decision-making into the regions and territories, the ability of sales managers and sales reps to make strategic business decisions becomes even more important. With fewer reps calling on physicians, the allocation of sales calls and marketing resources must be rationalized. Without training?

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 18, 2018

This could involve seeing their territory sales improve, helping a new product through its launch or possibly farming an account for new business. For some, though, it would be seen as real progress if they were to be promoted to a management position. Have they got the acumen to become a manager? Managing Director.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 26, 2013

Welcome to Sales Management TV. I am Steven Rosen author of 52 Sales Management Tips and executive sales coach. You have a vacant territory and you have narrowed your search down to two candidates. He has some sales experience but will require some work. Do you want to get more Sales Management Tips?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 29, 2020

You’ve moved from being an individual contributor to managing a team. How do you transition from being a great sales person into being a great sales manager. The job of sales manager is different. Our personal ability to successfully manage and close deals made us successful as individual contributors.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

With those unique circumstances in mind, the importance of effective sales training cannot be overstated. In this blog post, we’ll outline the unique challenges faced in pharmaceutical sales training and provide practical solutions. What are some challenges in pharmaceutical sales training?

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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. Sales Execution Sales Success Tibor Shanto' What’s in Your Pipeline?

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Even worse, some of these ineffective salespeople lead their sales teams in revenue because they inherited the biggest and best accounts, well-established large territories, have years in their industry and/or territory and are viewed as an expert.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. Before that happens, though, the AI has to be trained?—? This creates a new challenge for sales management: how do you train your sales team?—?including

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2014

Step 2: Identify Training Needs and the Training Program. Your training program should incorporate different modalities, topics and methods. Training should be focused on helping your sales reps identify prospects and close deals. Training can take place in a classroom setting, via LMS, mobile applications, etc.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan An interesting article, Secrets to Developing Successful Sales Managers , by Xactly's CEO, Christopher Cabrera, was posted on Selling Power's 2/19/13 blog. Here's why: He said to hire for characteristics and train for competencies. So, what are the correct competencies?

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Most organizations believe that their most successful sales people will make great sales managers. This thinking leads them to believe that you do not need training. A recent study showed that only 11% of organizations train their sales managers. Sales Manager Killers.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 28, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A post for Sales and HR Leaders to find root causes of Sales Manager (SM) vacancies. The Sales Manager position is the fulcrum between sales leadership strategy and sales force execution. Teams without effective sales managers lack morale and discipline. Weak sales strategy.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. by Howard Brown, CEO of ringDNA.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 22, 2016

Why New Sales Managers Fail. Are you a new sales manager , or have you just been promoted into a sales manager role? I am going to share the number one reason why new sales managers fail. Time and time again companies promote their best sales reps into managerial roles.

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LeadFuze

JULY 14, 2023

How to be a good sales manager is an inquiry that many professionals in the field often ponder. The role of a sales manager extends beyond just overseeing a team; it’s about fostering growth, driving performance, and achieving targets. A sales manager position, that’s your answer.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 15, 2021

Business acumen and business planning are becoming a much more necessary skill for sales reps and sales managers. The company’s business planning processes require sales reps to build annual business plans. It starts with the front-line sales manager reviewing each member of their sales team.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Before we discuss how to improve sales training, a quick promo for the latest and greatest taking place over at the ever improving Top Sales World. The June issue of Top Sales Magazine has been published and you can download it here. More on Baseball and Sales.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Forecast management needs to be overhauled A third area ripe for AI is forecast management. “In In my experience a lot of sales managers are keeping deals in their heads and they spend a lot of time discussing what they think is going to close and why. Paul agrees that some companies have too many sales tools.

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InsideSales.com

JULY 3, 2020

For a Sales Representative, climbing the corporate ladder begins with a promotion to Sales Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to be recognized by senior management and develop your career options. Below we have outlined 6 of the pitfalls and benefits of a good Sales Manager. How Sales Manager Succeed.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 31, 2021

As the head of sales it doesn’t matter if you are involved directly in the process, what matters, is that you have in place a top-notch sales selection system. Without a clear process, your sales managers will each adopt their own approach and ultimately achieve sub-optimal results. Self-manager. S – Systematic.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 2, 2018

The job of a sales manager is to provide a succeeding environment for salespeople. Beyond that, it’s providing viable territories and targets, proper support levels, tools for training and enablement, demand generation leadership, and the removal of internal roadblocks. Download a free trial now.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 20, 2022

First, congratulations, your first job as a sales manager is a huge step forward in your career. Now, don’t screw it up—you’ll get a lot of managers who will immediately congratulate you, shake your hand, smile then say, “What have you done for me lately?”. Before I go on, let’s backtrack a little bit.

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Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years. Good Selling!

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 14, 2019

Sales managers influence what salespeople sell, where they sell, who they sell to and even how they sell. These factors make the sales manager role one of the most influential and demanding jobs in any company engaged in complex B2B sales. How many direct reports do sales managers have in your company?

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. Sales managers and their reporting reps will have responsibilities in their roles, which means your compensation plans should be tailored to different roles. Constructing Commissions in a Sales Manager Compensation Plan.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2014

There’s a lot of stuff written about what sales managers have to do and their key job responsibilities. Some of the laundry list items include: Make sure the team makes the number, develop the strategy, manage the forecast/pipeline, manage performance, recruit, train, coach, and on and on. No related posts.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 5, 2018

I hope you have enjoyed our video series so far in terms of strategies to Crush your Sales Numbers. Strategy #4 is have your sales reps develop their own territory business plans. If your sales reps are not taking the time to build their business plans then where are they going to go, what are they going to do?

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. In order to maximize performace at the 100m, athletes train and diet – you will find that some do it through drugs, but that is like lying to the customer. New Concepts Driving Greater Performance .

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SalesLatitude

DECEMBER 27, 2018

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.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 7, 2020

There are different types of sales managers you run into during your time in sales. These are the seven types of sales leaders you find on the sales floor, six of which you should avoid. These are the seven types of sales leaders you find on the sales floor, six of which you should avoid.

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Tony Hughes

MAY 13, 2019

Sales Management is without doubt the most important link in the revenue chain. It’s also the toughest role in a company because it’s where the person is squeezed between the relentless expectations of executive management and sellers who struggle to differentiate in ferociously competitive markets.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. Wing was able to lean on ZoomInfo’s Chorus conversation intelligence solution and its SalesOS platform to analyze successful deals and perform lightning-fast research on her new territory and team. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. What do you like and dislike about the sales process? What training method is most effective for new reps? Sales Manager Interview Questions.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

It would be unacceptable for them not to have territory plans, maximizing the growth within their territories. We invest millions in software tools to help do these things, we invest additional millions in training to do these things, we invest thousands of person hours in account and territory planning.

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