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My latest salesepiphany happened while I was watching Friday’s American League Championship Series game between the Yankees and the Guardians. Where location, location, location is the mantra of real estate professionals, coach, coach, coach should be the mantra of Sales Leadership professionals.
As I listened to her, I realized that even today with all the management and sales training; the countless books and webinars; and the availability of small business coaches and consultants, there are far too many short sighted salesmanagers and small business owners. as per your existing sales agreements.
To change from under performing sales teams to high performing sales teams begins from the inside out. When salesmanagement, small business owners to C Suite executives understand change must first come from within they will understand my client’s epiphany: Change is about where I am inside, about me.”.
Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.”. Okay, so lets say I have not officially been coaching my team as of yet nor have I rolled out any structured coaching program.
Voss had an epiphany of sorts upon leaving the Bureau; he realized that several of the skills he’d learned and honed ‘in the wild’ during hostage negotiations were directly relevant – and essential – to the business arena. Chris Voss served as a hostage negotiator at the FBI for close to a quarter of a century.
Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.”. Okay, so lets say I have not officially been coaching my team as of yet nor have I rolled out any structured coaching program.
” Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.” How do I introduce coaching in a way that they would be open to exploring it?
Let’s examine that … Back in the 80’s, I was the salesmanager for a local office equipment company. It was then that I had an epiphany. There is a caveat to this title. Not a lot of money, but a nice touch regardless. This gave the customer an extra layer of confidence. No company is perfect. To err is human.
If we were to focus on sales, the ability to actively listen has been proven to dramatically improve trust and the capabilities of a professional salesperson. Okay, maybe not the epiphany you’re looking for yet, right? Ironically, proactive listening is the least developed skill that needs to be mastered. Keep reading.
Granted, managers are often left in a state of shock when they see what their salespeople are and are not doing and saying when meeting with and presenting to their prospects and customers.
Since my last book, Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions , I’ve been spending the majority of my time (every week!) delivering my management coach training programs for both domestic and global organizations. ” Can you envision the salesperson walking out of that conversation with a powerful epiphany?
Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows. It was more directive and prescriptive advice or telling them what to do than it was coaching.”. Okay, so lets say I have not officially been coaching my team as of yet nor have I rolled out any structured coaching program.
My salesmanager frightened new people into making the prescribed number of calls, but did little to impact the quality of calls that we made. Three months into my sales career I took a step back over a weekend and tried to figure out why a small business owner would buy a computer system. It was a mountain to climb.
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Epiphany breakthroughs get you to a new level of thinking. With a society and culture that wants to point the finger at someone else, it is very tough to teach accountability. Referring to this as a trap is a language that helps people realize and accept the reality of the situation.
Despite my shortcomings, in less that two years I was promoted to salesmanager and until twelve years ago, all I did was managesales reps. As a manager (and as a salesperson), I had my pluses and minuses. A prospecting epiphany. Sometimes I was patient but, more often, I was not.
I was looking for some serendipitous, universe-conspiring epiphany that made all the other schools look dwarf in their karate “skillness” in comparison to the one he chose. There were times as a sales rep where I could have immediately made the buyer’s life better but didn’t. Why do we do this to each other?
I was looking for some serendipitous, universe-conspiring epiphany that made all the other schools look dwarf in their karate “skillness” in comparison to the one he chose. There were times as a sales rep where I could have immediately made the buyer’s life better but didn’t. Why do we do this to each other?
Having that diverse background, what really drew you to the world of sales specifically? Alice : I think that I had an epiphany. I’m not sure exactly where it was because at first I was not really thinking of it as, “Oh, I’m going into a career in sales.” Obviously, the connection with Miller Heiman is huge.
It works with your existing tools and it's not really a sales methodology but instead a meta-framework for managing complex selling. Salesmanagers are increasingly becoming administrators and spreadsheet jockeys and fall victim to a lack of time for field coaching. but the concepts had seeped-in.
I’ve spent 10 years in various Sales and SalesManagement roles, both in Paris and London. I currently manage a team of 15 SDRs in 5 locations. This is why I encourage new sales professionals to fully embrace the role, build a strong foundation here, and I promise you will reap the benefits for years to come.”
Don’t forget to check out the six (6) top salesmanagement books at the end! While a Vice President at Salesforce, David Priemer had an epiphany: the very sales tactics his team was using were not working on him. If you’re like me, you love listening to a podcast.
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