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

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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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

MARCH 23, 2022

5 Sales Manager Coaching Blunders. 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. Do You Want To Increase Sales Performance?

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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.

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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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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

JUNE 20, 2019

Coaching the Coaches The question of the day is, who’s coaching the coaches on coaching? The reality is, there is no one coaching the coaches. Second line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. That is where coaching programs fail miserably.

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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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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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Steven Rosen

MARCH 18, 2023

Coaching the Coaches The question of the day is, who’s coaching the coaches on coaching? The reality is there is no one coaching the coaches. Second-line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. The Problem: Coaching isn’t Easy Maybe you’re lucky.

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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

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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Steven Rosen

MAY 10, 2017

6 FREE Sales Management Training Webinars . The #1 driver of performance in sales organizations are front-line sales managers. The STAR Sales Management Development Survey found that only 50% of sales managers were receiving on-going training and development in core skills.

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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. They leave because of their manager.” It’s about getting the sales managers up to speed.”

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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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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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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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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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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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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Sales training coaching tips based on experience and real-world implementation over many years. When it comes to sales coaching, always start with the buyer or customer in mind. We know today that buyer expectations of the sales process and interacting with salespeople are higher than ever.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We know that salespeople reporting to a manager with strong coaching skills tend to have 28% more close-able late-stage opportunities. This is from the deep data warehouse of Objective Management Group, our partner and the pioneer of the sales assessment.

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Benchmarking Coaching Effectiveness. Do you know how effective you sales managers are? The obvious place to start assessing your sales managers’ effectiveness is to evaluate the activity that has the greatest impact on sales rep performance. But You Have Highly Effective Sales Coaches.

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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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Steven Rosen

APRIL 19, 2023

Most sales executives realize the impact of managers, not sales coaching. They know that sales coaching is one of the most significant levers to drive superior sales performance. To Coach Or Not To Coach? Source: Objective Management Group , Dave Kurlan. What is the problem?

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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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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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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. Of course, all of these point to the importance of constructive sales feedback while coaching. Not all coaching is helpful and constructive.

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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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Steven Rosen

MARCH 1, 2023

Executive Coaching Pumps You Up! Sales leaders need to remember that they too, must regularly upgrade their leadership skills. The most effective ways are by networking with a peer who faces similar challenges and by enrolling in an executive coaching program. The post Executive Coaching Pumps You Up!

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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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Allego

MAY 21, 2024

Being in sales enablement these days can feel like neverending work. You’re constantly training and coaching sales reps, creating reinforcement learning, ensuring sellers have the right content, and helping them connect with customers and create personalized buying experiences. And why not?

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