Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 19, 2017

We just completed a two-day Sales Leadership Intensive and that's always a great experience for the sales leaders who attend. The focus is on coaching salespeople for impact and everyone learns what it takes to become so effective at coaching salespeople that they ask for more. Image Copyright ColorCarnival.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Sales managers who spend more time in the field sales coaching outperform those that don’t! I was sitting in with a customer who is a sales force excellence expert and he asked me, “what do you see in the industry in terms of the number of days that sales managers are expected to be out in the field sales coaching ?”

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Every winning sales team has an excellent coach guiding them. This is no different in sales. The key to improving sales performance lies not only in the hands of sales reps, but also in the ability of their managers to provide effective guidance and support. Pricing: Essential, Plus, and Ultimate tiers are offered.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 24, 2018

I had a chance to review the CSO Insights 2018 Sales Talent Study and extracted some fascinating data. I thought it might be interesting to take their data, overlay some of Objective Management Group's (OMG) data, and see what we can take away from that.

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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. Of course, successful sales teams are made up of different personalities.

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Allego

MARCH 31, 2023

While we may strive for sifting and recruitment strategies that leave us with rock star sales reps, it’s never bulletproof. Even when you provide sales coaching, a sales rep may still leave. The average tenure of an SDR (Sales Development Rep) stands at just 1.4

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 3, 2018

The What, Why, How, and When of Executive Sales Coaching. Executive coaching is estimated to be a $2-3 billion/year global industry. There has been dramatic growth in the number of people who are becoming coaches and leaders who are hiring coaches. Why Executive Sales Coaching .

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan This kind of story doesn''t happen every day. 5 people were placed on each team based on the following carefully selected scores from OMG''s Sales Candidate Assessment: 1 team had the best Sales DNA. 1 team had the strongest overall Desire and Commitment for success in sales.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Having talented sales reps is often a result of investing in effective sales coaching. According to research conducted by ValueSelling Associates , over half of high-performing businesses that have had sales coaching programs in place for three years or more experience high growth. Collaborative. Results-oriented.

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Xvoyant

APRIL 17, 2018

The benefits of sales coaching are no longer debatable. Study after study have confirmed that coaching yields increased production, higher productivity, increased CRM use, better retention and higher win rates. Those five results make a coaching program a non-negotiable for successful sales teams.

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Sell Integrity

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Effective sales coaching yields results, and sales leaders intuitively seem to understand this. You don’t have to look far to find another article or blog post talking about the importance of coaching in the workplace. The Sales Coaching Paradox. So where’s the disconnect?

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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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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Only about one-quarter of sales leaders believe that their managers effectively coach and develop their sellers. In part, that’s because sales managers spend less time coaching—14%—than they do on selling, forecasting and administrative tasks, according to our latest study, 2020 Trends in Sales Management.

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Sales Manager Now

OCTOBER 22, 2020

When you do a book study with your sales team you get a low cost, high return way to bring education and training to your team. Let me share some of the benefits of why I use book studies more… The post How to Do a Book Study With Your Sales Team appeared first on Sales Manager Now.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

Sales coaching is all about looking forward and developing your people. High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program.

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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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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the past few years, three waves of change have rocked the sales industry: Sellers often play a smaller role in the buying cycle, as buyers wait later in the sales cycle to engage them. Sales organizations undergo constant change initiatives. Coaching Sellers. But it’s not too late to transform.

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Bigtincan

JANUARY 6, 2021

“For the last five years, sales coaching has had the greatest impact on win rates and quota attainment.” – CSO Insights Study You read that right; sales coaching is the number one way to improve your sales win rates and quota attainment. But much has changed in the past few years.

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Bigtincan

MAY 20, 2020

Sales leaders who adopt and embrace sales coaching can help transform their teams into quota-conquering champions. In fact, according to a recent CSO Insights study, businesses with dynamic sales coaching programs reach 28 percent higher win rates.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

It is up to you to take advantage of it and one great way to improve is by adding technology to your sales coaching playbook. That’s right… The future of sales coaching is being shaped by two forces: data and technology. Studies show that no other investment improves sales performance better than sales coaching.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 4, 2021

Sales managers can take heart in a Sales Management Association study that shows effective sales coaching leads to an increase of up to 23% in rep performance. One would assume with an impact like that, sales managers would commit a significant amount of time to coaching.

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 15, 2013

Sales coaching. Selling – technology definitely provides new opportunities for sales managers and sales reps. The article made us recall a scenario raised by a sales manager when customizing a sales coaching program for first-line sales managers. Sales calls and the importance of eye contact.

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Xvoyant

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past months we have been researching and curating these guides specifically for sales leaders, coaches, and teams. Each guide has been put together with the goal of helping sales leaders establish a strong coaching program. The first guide is available for free here !

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Xvoyant

AUGUST 22, 2019

Your job as a sales leader is hard. The answer is Sales Coaching. Companies are beginning to understand the quantifiable value of good sales coaching. If you can establish a dynamic coaching program, your retention improves, onboarding time is reduced, and morale is better. But there is a coaching gap.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Studies show that 92% of New Year’s resolutions never happen and are generally forgotten in the first few days of Jan. The table below is based on The American Society of Training and Development study and outlines the percentage likelihood of achieving a goal. True feelings of success come from within.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 18, 2023

Second-line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. The role of the frontline manager (FLM) is to recruit, develop, and retain top sales performers. By doing these basics well, you will consistently crush your sales objectives. The Problem: Coaching isn’t Easy Maybe you’re lucky.

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Lessonly

JULY 23, 2021

Switching gears from professional sports to the (much more realistic for 99% of us who aren’t nearly that athletic) world of sales, what do sales coaches do ? What kind of skillset is a sales coach required to have? And, what do great sales coaches universally have that fits across all sales coaching positions?

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There are four things incredible sales coaches have in common and we’ve shared them here. Chances are we’ve all had at least one incredible sales coach and one pretty bad one. It’s no secret that sellers are devoted to their incredible coaches. Most incredible sales coaches will tell you they read and study a lot.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Sales coaching has one purpose and that is to make the sales person better. Coaching is about analyzing what a sales person is doing in order to enhance their skills and improve their capabilities. There are a million ways to coach and each sales leader has his or her own style.

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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. Even the most seasoned sales reps need proper training to be effective sales managers.

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Xvoyant

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Modern Sales Environment. To say the state of sales today is radically different than it was in 2005 would be an understatement. And it isn’t just one part of sales that has changed. The modern sales team has added structure to the activities salespeople conduct to build pipeline and win business. The Coaching Gap.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Earlier this year I published an article titled 5 Ways to Create a Successful Sales Coaching Program. The results from Sales Mastery sales executive survey showed that 1/3 of executives surveyed, said that “ sub-optimal sales manager coaching” is one of their top 3 barriers to achieving their objectives in 2018.

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 26, 2021

Sales Manager’s Success Checklist. It is far too early to look at sales early. Here are the top 10 questions you should ask yourself and your sales managers to gauge if you/they have set the foundation for success. If you want your sales team to perform and perform well, you need to give them the gift of focus.

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Sales Training Connection

MARCH 3, 2014

Sales coaching – leverage trigger events. Sales coaching – sales leadership talks about it all the time. Sales consultants advocate it and sales managers say they would like to do more of it. The “it” of course is sales coaching. Sales Coaching and Trigger Events.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 20, 2019

The reality is, there is no one coaching the coaches. Second line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. The role of the frontline manager (FLM) is to recruit, develop, and retain top sales performers. By doing these basics well you will consistently crush your sales objectives.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 12, 2020

In today's blog post, we discuss the technique of going for the "No" early in the sales process. It may seem counterintuitive, but countless studies have shown that humans desire what they can't have.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 28, 2014

Last week I was speaking with a VP of Sales of a well-known software company. George was not pleased with the performance of his sales team and was under intense pressure from the senior team to turn things around. Sales were off in 4 out of 5 regions and he felt that the sales team was just not motivated. By Steven A.

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