Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2017

Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team. Do you want to develop an awesome sales management team? Sales leaders have several options to achieve and exceed their sales numbers. Annually spending by companies: Sales training $20 billion on sales training.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 15, 2025

This is a 2018 article about 24 and how you can double your revenue. Circling back again, another topic I tackled in the past was this 2018 article about BANT. The first page of this Google search reveals 10 articles written about BANT in 2024 alone. But sure, proceed with four.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 19, 2023

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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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 7, 2019

That's the problem with the statistics I'm going to share in this article. The stats show what sales managers are doing but those managers are largely uninformed. John Pattison, Objective Management Group's COO, mined some data on salespeople who report to sales managers. I was appalled by what I saw.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 17, 2019

In my last article I shared the t op 8 requirements for becoming a great salesperson. 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.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Hello Steven Rosen here for my weekly sales management tip where each week I share one tip from my book 52 Sales Management Tips, The Sales Managers’ Success Guide. Take the time to live in the moment by listening more, read a book, read an article, keep learning. One should never stop learning.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 16, 2025

If you missed my March 14 article on Sales Cringe – my first in over a month – that will explain why we had the time to rewatch “24.” Sales Managers must be trained to properly and consistently coach their salespeople to the content of the training. None of it!

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 13, 2024

I created an analogy for my first article when I wrote about scaling, hiring and firing salespeople , based on what I read in Genesis. Today’s article is about on boarding and coaching salespeople, an analogy I created from what I read so far in Exodus. Statistics from Objective Management Group’s nearly 2.5

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 18, 2018

You might be having a similar experience with my recent articles as I have been sharing lots of data about salespeople - to the degree where you might think that nothing else matters. Today we're diving into sales management and specifically, the Sales Management Coaching Competency.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There are two articles that I post each and every December. This is the first - the top articles of the year - and later this month I will post my annual Nutcracker edition which I have been doing since 2011. There are several criteria for choosing the top articles of the year, including, but not limited to: Views (Article).

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Step 1 – Have the Sales Team Evaluated We leverage the gold standard of sales team evaluation tools to determine what the team’s full sales capabilities are today, and where the biggest gaps are in all 21 Sales Core Competencies. They needed to add salespeople and replace their D-Players.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 10, 2021

Invest in your sales managers to unlock the potential in your sales organization and turn that performance into sustainable performance As the leader of your organization, the next 6 months will prove to be more pressure-filled than you may have experienced in years. Invest in your sales managers.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 15, 2021

Leading-edge sales organizations understand the value of investing in leadership development. They believe that strong sales managers are the key to driving sales rep performance. The STAR Sales Manager Survey set out to gauge the development priorities of sales organizations. They really loved it!”.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

Science Reveals the Actual Impact of Sales Coaching More Sales Assessment Imposters Exposed The Best Salespeople are 2733% More Likely to Have This Than the Worst Salespeople What Percentage of Sales Managers Have the Necessary Coaching Skills?

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 29, 2025

Theres a new breed of sales managers who are succeeding by serving their sales people. They are putting their sales people first and, in turn, their sales people are taking care of their customers resulting in long term, successful sales. The result is better sales for the whole team.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This article is the 1st place winner of the 2022 Sales Pro Central MVP Awards on Sales Leadership! In our sales management training, we have developed 10 keys and a framework of activities that provide a new or tenured sales leader with a roadmap they need to put in place to help lead their team to greater sales success.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 13, 2024

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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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 19, 2024

And because this is my brain, this article is actually about sales, not baseball! Is it fair to believe that Sales Leaders want their salespeople to succeed with their big, important sales opportunities as much as I would want the Red Sox relief pitcher to succeed in a big, important game? This is huge! Each opportunity.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

According to the search results inside this blog, I have written on the topic of coaching salespeople more than 400 times or 25% of my articles. Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. And their bosses, CEOs, aren’t doing much better on this topic.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 3, 2019

I coach a lot of sales managers and sales leaders and when I ask them what they want help with today, it's rarely a big opportunity, it's seldom coaching best practices, it's hardly ever targeted metrics for their team, and it's almost unheard of for them to request that I help them improve as sales managers, Oh no.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. I was curious to hear what he thinks.

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 20, 2019

Second line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. Sales coaching is a very difficult skill that very few sales managers master. Your company has rolled out sales manager coaching training. Possible Solutions: Any coaching training must include the second line sales managers.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

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Topline Leadership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In todays pressure-packed sales management world, a sales manager who doesnt have the time or energy to deliberate the best course of action may develop time-saving, automatic practices (also known as bad habits). Read full article The post 5 Bad Habits for Sales Managers to Correct appeared first on TopLine Leadership.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For sales managers, look for qualities that build strong teams and motivate others to perform their best. Whether you seek a new hire or promotion, here are several essential qualities of sales managers. Someone in line for this position already possesses effective sales strategies. Asks questions.

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Topline Leadership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Discover the five essential skills for sales managers that you need to master now to make 2025 the best year ever for you and your sales team. In July 2024, a corporate client with over $75 billion in annual sales had 20 of their company’s sales managers complete my online sales management training program.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2025

Reading a fascinating article in the NYTimes, Giving Kids Some Autonomy Has Surprising Results , got me thinking. What if we give our people more autonomy in how they manage their deals, days, what they do? ” But as the article points out, we have to create the underlying frameworks and guardrails to achieve success.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2024

He shares insights on managing high-performing sales reps, emphasizing the need to understand their drivers and view their challenges as positive. Emotional intelligence and maturity are crucial for sales managers to lead and communicate with diverse teams effectively. They have different drivers and motivations.

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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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The Center for Sales Strategy

MARCH 27, 2023

Sales management is an art that requires a delicate balance between the present and the future. This means managing your current deals while also prospecting for new ones. Whether you are a seasoned sales professional or a newbie in the game, read on to learn how to master the art of sales management.

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Bernadette McClelland

MARCH 24, 2018

In my case it was a sales manager who would use the phrase, ‘Attention to Detail’ quite regularly. Here are a few examples that have come up in my discussions and/or coaching that might give you some food for thought: Funnily enough, writing this article transported me back in time to when my husband and I were renovating an old house.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Can sales managers influence the buying process? You can’t manage revenue. If sales close, you win. Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process.

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Steven Rosen

JULY 12, 2022

What Great Sales Managers Do? Many sales managers will be sitting down with their sales people over the next month or so to do mid-year reviews to gauge progress on objectives, business plans, and development plans. Sales managers spend a considerable amount of time preparing for a mid-year performance review.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 24, 2017

When doing any review whether it’s a quarterly, mid-year or year-end review, the most successful sales manager focuses 20% of their time on reviewing past performance and 80% of their time on focusing forward. Developing your salespeople to be better is the role of the sales manager. Have I peaked your curiosity?

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