Steven Rosen

MARCH 23, 2022

Sales coaching is the No. The only problem is that managers have not been taught how to coach effectively. Coaching is a skill that takes time to perfect, and unless expertly coached or trained, managers can make all types of blunders. Transforming your managers from good to great coaches can dramatically impact sales.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 15, 2021

If sales leaders don't coach how to handle objections, salespeople often get lost when they occur. The post Don’t Forget to Coach Objection Handling appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Tim Hagen reviews a three-step strategy to handle objections better.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 15, 2022

Speaking of baseball and bringing sales into the discussion, let's talk about coaching. When my son was home for winter break, I asked him to rank all of his baseball coaches, an exercise that he found quite interesting. He played 4 years for his #1 ranked coach. He played 4 years for his #1 ranked coach.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Peer coaching is one technique that will help you unlock employee engagement in all three of Daniel Pink’s categories of what motivates: purpose, mastery and autonomy. The post Use Peer Coaching to Drive Employee Lifetime Value appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 17, 2022

A significant number of barriers stand in the way of effective sales coaching. The post Take Your Sales Team from Subpar to Superstar with These 5 Sales Coaching Tips appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Here's how to overcome them.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The post How Coaching and Development Drives Sales Growth appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. A survey of more than 150 B2B sales leaders identified the mindsets, attributes and behaviors that differentiate the best in the sales profession.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

That’s where sales coaching comes in. Sales coaching is defined as a process designed so every rep is supported and equipped to effectively reach their personal and team quota and goals. Let’s take it a step further to learn more about the importance of sales coaching and why it should be a sales leader’s top priority. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 3, 2021

Smart employers are beginning to recognize the benefits of using Certified Professional Recovery Coaches (CPRC). By working directly with the business and/or struggling employee recovery coaches are getting these individuals back to work, often functioning better than before.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 6, 2023

But effective coaching with sales performance data often becomes the greater challenge with sales managers and leaders. In our coaching platform, we offer several tools to help in this area and one of the most effective, easy to understand and utilize is sales data insight that comes from regular Sales Huddles.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 27, 2023

His first high school baseball coach saw his potential, calling him up to play on the varsity team when he was still in the 8th grade. Coach Mark was a good judge of talent, he was able to develop the limited talent he had, and his players loved him. Mike attended two high schools.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 8, 2024

Most sales managers spend less than 10% of their time on coaching, and only one third of managers actually coach their people on a weekly basis. Yet, the Coaching Competency is the most critical part of a sales manager's responsibilities; it is also the most difficult skill set to learn and master.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 4, 2022

Part 2: Coaching Your Team Post-Covid Recovery. Not wanting to add to their sales rep’s stress, sales managers complied and didn’t coach virtual sales calls. To improve your sales reps selling skills, you need to be coaching them on both face-to-face and virtual sales calls. Step 2, is Coaching Focus.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2022

Yesterday I received a daily email from a Paul Reddick, a baseball coach who was drumming up some business for his baseball institute. It resonated - not for its baseball coaching - but as sales coaching. Here's what it said: If your coach is talking about any of the pitching flaws that you see listed above….

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Years ago, one of the lead execs from our client KeyBank shared an article called, “What it takes to be a Coach”. It began with: You must understand the game.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Speaking of deeper dives, today's article takes a deeper dive into one of the problems identified in the prior article; crappy sales coaching skills. My article about Crappy Sales Managers discussed the low recommendation rates for sales management candidates, why they are so low, and the bigger repercussions of the problem.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 11, 2024

I used to coach, not as a dad who was the baseball equivalent of a boy scout troop leader, but I actually coached. ” The pitcher’s response to my coaching was consistent with salespeople who only APPEAR to be responsive to coaching. They agree with the coaching but fail to execute.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 21, 2023

The second chapter of this guide addresses a fundamental question: how often should sales managers coach their teams? Through a deep analysis of sales evaluations and coaching frequencies, we uncover the impact of consistent coaching on various aspects of sales performance.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Today’s article is about on boarding and coaching salespeople, an analogy I created from what I read so far in Exodus. This is the equivalent to pre-call strategizing, one of several methods we teach for coaching salespeople. When Moses reported back to God, God debriefed Moses and then coached him again.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Sales coaching is an essential responsibility of frontline sales managers. With such potential benefits, it is no wonder that many sales organizations recommend that their front-line sales managers spend 25% - 40% of their time on sales coaching. Should they coach frontline sellers? But what about senior management ?

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The economic buyer The users The gatekeepers The coach In the last email I described the first 3 types of people. In the email I want to tell you more about the “coach”—the big difference-maker in landing any sizable deal. Not for free–the coach The coach is the one type of person that does not automatically exist with any deal.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 30, 2023

To compete in the marketplace today, companies must first, identify the sales coaching needs of their managers and the strengths and weaknesses of the salespeople they coach. Their sales coaches play a large part in their success.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 2, 2023

Every organization has sales coaching and a sales method. What many companies either don’t know or unsure of is this: What direct impact does our sales coaching and sales method have on improving sales?

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 11, 2023

While group training sessions have many benefits, there's no denying the unique benefits of personalized one-on-one sales coaching. With over 30 years of experience working with banks, we have found that tailored coaching can be the key to unlocking your team's full potential.

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Steven Rosen

JULY 2, 2024

In the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the coaching conundrum faced by sales managers and its effect on driving sales performance. They highlight the impact of formal coaching processes on win rates and overall team success.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 31, 2024

By integrating AI insights with the nuanced understanding and empathy of human sales coaches, organizations can foster deeper connections, trust, and mutual respect among team members. The post AI is a Game Changer for Sales Coaching appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Steven Rosen

JULY 2, 2024

Sales managers are critical to team success but often need more effective coaching skills due to inadequate training. Steven Rosen underscores coaching as the weakest core sales management skill, urging prioritized training. Implementing structured coaching frameworks enhances individual performance and strengthens team cohesion.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In an economic environment that is like the one we are in heading into 2023, your growth strategy may not be so much about sales growth, but rather more about holding on to what you have! If your clients are deciding to participate in the assumed upcoming recession, then your biggest questions / challenges won’t be:

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Membrain

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Often, when I talk to managers, they tell me how much time they spend coaching. They tell me stories of meeting, weekly, with their people, doing reviews, pipeline discussions, activity discussions—all sorts of “coaching meetings.” They say, “Dave, coaching is important and we are spending a lot of time coaching…”

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The post Driving Sales Excellence with AI-Enhanced Sales Coaching appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Integrating AI into sales training isn’t just a technological upgrade – it’s a strategic imperative for companies aiming to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Often, when I talk to managers, they tell me how much time they spend coaching. They tell me stories of meeting, weekly, with their people, doing reviews, pipeline discussions, activity discussions—-all sorts of “coaching meetings.” Usually, following these discussions, I sit in on meetings managers are coaching.

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