Steven Rosen

MARCH 23, 2022

Sales coaching is the No. 1 management activity that drives sales performance. 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.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As a sales leader, there is a time and place to be a manager, a coach, or both. Managers focus on operational tasks, ensuring the day-to-day activities run smoothly. A sales coach, on the other hand, works to develop the sellers and foster growth within the team.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

5 Ways top sales managers become a sales coach! Sales coaching is the most important sales management activity for driving sales performance. Unfortunately, most managers haven’t been taught how to properly coach their staff. Ask Effective Questions. Of course, not.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 10, 2024

However, the significance of prospecting is often overshadowed by the allure of the deal’s close, leading many sales managers to neglect to coach the top of the funnel. This paradox has far-reaching implications, resulting in underdeveloped strategies that can stunt the growth of an organization’s sales pipeline.

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Chris committed to coaching to improve the skills of his sales team. is a district sales manager who just took my Focused Sales Coaching online program. He has done well implementing the program and is so close to being a great sales manager. You are making an impact with these sales managers!

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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. But what about senior management ?

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Are you, as a sales leader, spending at least 50% of your time coaching your salespeople, helping them to develop their skills and become more productive? It’s time to inspect your own behaviors as a coach and mentor. Set time on your calendar right now for specific, sales skills coaching with your salespeople.

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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. Most of the advice given fell into the category of sales tips.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 12, 2021

Coaching has become the single most important competency for sales managers to learn and optimally, they should spend 50% of their time coaching their salespeople. It is also the single most difficult sales management competency to learn and master.

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Steven Rosen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

I have said it before and I will say it again – SALES MANAGERS ARE STRUGGLING! Only 10-20% of Sales Managers are Crushing It! The rest are struggling to make their sales numbers. They find themselves overwhelmed, overstressed and lacking the tools and training to be the best they can be. Just do it!

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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Developing Master Sales Coaches. Do you have a team of master sales coaches? Are your sales managers ready to crush it in 2020 or will it be another frustrating, mediocre 12-months? Unfortunately, as you know, this won’t maximize your sales nor improve the competencies of your sales team.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Sales training can be a significant investment in your sales team. However, despite this, it would be a mistake for organizations to think they can just sign their team up for training and watch them succeed. To be successful, training cannot be a one-off event. What do you want reps to take away from the training?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

It seems the word “Coaching” has become one of those fashionable words, permeating every discussion. Go back 15 or more years, and we barely saw the word coaching. Today, we find coaching applying to about everything we do, both in business and in our personal lives. It provides coaching on how I spend my time.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 14, 2021

But how are sales managers doing at adapting to coaching their sales force over video? We know how sales managers were doing before the pandemic. Nearly a year into the Pandemic, most salespeople have adapted to selling over video. Inquiring minds want to know. It wasn't very good and I wrote about it here.

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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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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 6, 2018

Develop a Coaching Culture. Hi, this is my fifth video on Sales Strategies to Crush Your Sales Numbers, I call it Develop a Coaching Culture. . Sales Strategy #2 Execute with Excellence because most companies do not execute with excellence. Here are the 5 steps to building a coaching culture.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Awesome Virtual Coaching Creates Master Virtual Sellers. Sales organizations have had to adjust how they prospect, sell, and interact with customers and each other. . However, there are two fundamental activities that successful sales organizations have been able to continue doing despite COVID. You need to coach them !

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Committed leaders invest in themselves by taking part in sales management training to become better managers and coaches so they can help their people see greater success.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

Author: Brian Trautschold As a new hire, structured training and onboarding programs are expected. Today, it is rare to see a company that doesn’t have a strict training program in place from the moment a new hire walks through the door. That’s where sales coaching comes in. Provide Managers Better Visibility.

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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

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. Do nothing.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 4, 2022

Part 2: Coaching Your Team Post-Covid Recovery. In the pre-COVID days, sales managers would ride along with a sales rep for the day. The most significant impact of COVID on salespeople was the shift from face-to-face to virtual sales calls. This was a painful transition for many sales reps.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Many companies are struggling with finding talent in today’s environment, and it is particularly difficult to find top-notch sales management talent. Unfortunately, most sales managers have no formal training in leadership, management and coaching skills, so how do you find the right person?

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Managing a high-performance sales team can be challenging. One of the main challenges is that the job requires sales manager to take on multiple different roles. For example, one day you could be on ride-alongs coaching your reps , the next day, working on new territory plans for your team.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sales organizations typically have plenty of sales data due to the growth and usage of CRM systems, critical to capturing the activities that are occurring with the sales team. But effective coaching with sales performance data often becomes the greater challenge with sales managers and leaders.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 12, 2025

In a recent expert interview, John Golden talked with Chris Jennings , a sales leadership expert with more than 25 years of sales and leadership experience. They discussed new sales training methods, the importance of authenticity in sales, and the changing role of sales managers.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 17, 2024

So why is it that many sales leaders default to coaching the deal at hand and do not consistently have sales pipeline management sessions with their people? Certainly, effective coaching is an essential part of sales pipeline management, but it starts with a review of key metrics from the pipeline.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 1, 2024

Running a company is very different than managing a sales team, so you need someone skilled in the specific strengths of coaching and motivating your sales team. Companies have choices and often it makes sense to hunt, interview, hire and pay for a full-time sales manager, but this is a position very difficult to fill.

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Highspot

APRIL 1, 2025

That’s what traditional sales role-playing feels like: forced, vague, and anxiety-inducing. Sales managers know role-play is essential to improve sales performance , yet the old methods make it difficult to coach effectively and drive improvement. It then delivers real-time sales coaching.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 21, 2023

Excerpt from Objective Management Group’s recent webinar on The Data Behind Sales Managers of Elite Teams. The second chapter of this guide addresses a fundamental question: how often should sales managers coach their teams?

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Highspot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Sales coaching is one of the many key responsibilities of a sales leader and is one of the most effective ways to increase sales performance across your team. In fact, 65% of high-impact sales organizations (75% or more of reps achieving quota) report that sales managers spend 20% or more time coaching.

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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. 31 candidates were recommended, and 12 candidates were worthy of consideration.

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Message: Get your head out of the sand and start coaching. Top sales coaches have the power to supercharge a team’s performance. Research suggests that the best sales coaches can drive 19% more sales than those who are less effective coaches. But selling and coaching are different skill sets.

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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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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Lastly, they have an accountability partner or a coach to keep them on track. A sustainable sales goal plan is more than just thinking about and writing down goals. We know that salespeople who accomplish their goals do these things consistently: Their goals are written down and they have a plan to achieve them.

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