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Speaker: Steven Rosen MBA, Author, Executive Coach, Speaker and Top 50 Sales Influencer
It is well recognised that the frontline salesmanagers are the key to driving performance in sales organizations. If you had to choose between investing in salesmanager training vs sales rep training what would you do? Steven is a thought leader in the area of sales leadership training and coaching.
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Speaker: Steven Rosen, MBA, Author, Executive Coach, Speaker, and Top 50 Sales Influencer
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million per salesmanager. Message to Management: Your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople so they can do what they were hired to do—sell!”. But I don’t think any salesmanager listened, because more than half of reps are still missing quota. million per manager.
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Speaker: Steve Benson, Founder and CEO, Badger Maps
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Speaker: Steve Benson, Founder and CEO, Badger Maps
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