Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Pivoting to sales, and staying with correlations and KPI's, could there be one between how sales managers spend their time and why so few salespeople hit quota? There was a clear correlation between 4 baseball KPI's and the outcome of the World Series.

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Quota Sales Management Coaching Pivotal 284

Steven Rosen

AUGUST 20, 2023

Group Coaching Inside Sales Reps In sales leadership, fostering a culture of continuous learning and feedback is paramount. By group coaching inside sales reps, you can tap into the power of collective insights can pave the way for a more informed and cohesive sales team.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2022

It can be a “triple whammy” for the company as they lose the revenue of a top performer, need to fill a critical “seat” in the sales organization and have a group of salespeople that are not performing to their full potential. Per David Brock, a sales manager’s job is to be a coach.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Proposal Promotion 195

Sales 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2022

It can be a “triple whammy” for the company as they lose the revenue of a top performer, need to fill a critical “seat” in the sales organization and have a group of salespeople that are not performing to their full potential. Per David Brock, a sales manager’s job is to be a coach.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Proposal Promotion 39

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2018

Author: Kevin McGirl Sales managers have a tough job. A good sales manager needs to stay on top of their game at all times, and ensure that their team is focused, efficient and most importantly, profitable. There are many moving parts in the sales process, and it’s not easy staying on top of them all.

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SalesFuel

JUNE 16, 2024

Scouller emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between genuine teams and performance groups, particularly at the senior management level. The Concept of Pseudo Teams Pseudo teams are work groups that aspire to be teams but lack a clear goal and focus on unanimity.

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Groups Workbooks Lead Rank Hiring 110

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For sales managers, look for qualities that build strong teams and motivate others to perform their best. Whether you seek a new hire or promotion, here are several essential qualities of sales managers. Someone in line for this position already possesses effective sales strategies. Asks questions.

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Sales Management Hiring Promotion Motivation 139

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone. Sales Managers don’t want to coach because it takes away from personal sales.

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Coaching Guidelines Margin Incentives 347

Steven Rosen

AUGUST 2, 2021

Peak performance is a sales team that can efficiently manage the execution of sales plans while effectively developing and encouraging their salespeople to operate at peak levels. Sales leaders believe it is their job to develop their sales managers. Find Out More.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

94% of sales managers are optimistic about their salespeople. Objective Management Group's (OMG's) findings from the evaluations and assessments of 1.8 Objective Management Group's (OMG's) findings from the evaluations and assessments of 1.8 Unfortunately, a lot of sales managers choose the second option.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 25, 2024

We rely on the pioneer and #1 sales management evaluation by Objective Management Group to help understand exactly what it takes to ‘motivate’ a sales team. What are the competencies and behaviors of those leaders who seem so talented at helping others achieve their very best?

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RAIN Group

AUGUST 13, 2021

Frank Cespedes, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, discusses his latest book, Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World that Never Stops Changing (Harvard Business Press, 2021) in this Q&A with RAIN Group.

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Sales Management Groups Sales How To 130

Steven Rosen

MAY 1, 2024

He shares insights on managing high-performing sales reps, emphasizing the need to understand their drivers and view their challenges as positive. Managing high-performing sales reps requires understanding and appreciating their drivers and demands rather than being threatened by their assertiveness.

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Video Face-to-face Coaching Sales Management 296

Steven Rosen

APRIL 3, 2018

If you have direct reports, an executive coach can be a career catalyst, improving both your leadership and coaching/people management capabilities. Traditionally, CEOs, presidents and business owners were the group that benefited the most from executive sales coaching. Why Executive Sales Coaching .

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 2, 2014

All sales reps need coaching and guidance, but rainmakers deserve extra attention. The sales manager announces the top performers of the year. Applause resounds throughout the building as these sales champions are paraded like Superbowl winning gods across the sales floor. Drum roll, please.

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Cold Calling Incentives Incentive Face-to-face 289

RAIN Group

AUGUST 31, 2022

How much control do sales managers have over the performance of their teams? A RAIN Group Center for Sales Research study found that Elite and Top-Performing Sales Organizations prioritize sales coaching significantly more than other organizations, and they have more skilled and motivating sales managers.

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Sales Management Study Sales Coaching Motivation 119

Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 24, 2021

Something else we haven't done for quite a while is revisit Objective Management Group's (OMG) sales selection statistics on the percentage of people that are recommended for various selling and sales management roles.

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Hotels Sports Groups Objections 274

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Good incentives with reasonably precise rules and rewards allow sales managers to send positive signals about the company’s priorities and transparency. Sales managers aren’t the only ones who benefit from good incentives – reps benefit on two levels as well. Sales managers can also benefit from using non-monetary points.

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Incentives Incentive Travel Motivation 323

Steven Rosen

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite good interviewing skills, many sales managers are guilty of making the following hiring mistakes: Hiring people they like. Do your sales managers have the tools and processes to systematically identify top sales performers from those who are pretenders? Settling for mediocrity to fill the vacancy.

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Hiring Lead Rank Retention Face-to-face 367

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 13, 2023

Today I will cover one of the ways we at Anthony Cole Training Group, LLC coach sales managers to help them coach their salespeople to have more and better initial sales calls: Your USA! USA is the terminology we use at Anthony Cole Training Group as part of our Effective Selling System (ESS).

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Company Coaching Groups System 215

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2017

This has allowed the former group to act and speak about their pipeline with conviction backed by results, the subjective group, spends more time rationalizing the outcome than driving it. A new wrinkle is now available to the subjective group, one they feel lends a bit of weight and validity to what they are doing, namely statistics.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you are a new sales manager, building trust with your sales team is your first challenge. Without trust, progress will be slowed and time is a luxury few new sales managers have. If you have ever worked for a sales manager you didn’t trust, you know how stressful that sales role can be.

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Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank ACT 118

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 10, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Can you name 10 Core Competencies of a great salesperson? For the past 20 years, every Objective Management Group (OMG) sales force evaluation and sales candidate assessment has been tied to 21 Sales Core Competencies. They are marketing themselves.

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Top of Funnel Social Selling Funnel Sales Cycle 310

Steven Rosen

JUNE 20, 2021

Peer Group Discussion and Coupled with Leadership Coaching Will Pump you Up! Sales leaders need to remember that they, too, must regularly upgrade their leadership skills. The most effective ways are networking with a peer group of like-minded sales leaders who face similar challenges and utilizing a sales leadership coach.

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Sales Leadership Face-to-face Networking Travel 234

Steven Rosen

APRIL 3, 2018

If you have direct reports, an executive coach can be a career catalyst, improving both your leadership and coaching/people management capabilities. Traditionally, CEOs, presidents and business owners were the group that benefited the most from executive coaching. Why Executive Sales Coaching .

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Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Face-to-face 160

Steven Rosen

MAY 9, 2018

Source: Objective Management Group , Dave Kurlan. Based on these statistics the answer is: Sales managers are not sales coaching! Alarm bells should be going off in every sales organization. In my article I want to share my thoughts on the following: Why are sales managers not coaching ?

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Coaching Sales Coaching Objections Sales Management 251

Score More Sales

MARCH 1, 2019

Do you have these five components as a sales manager? It takes much more to be successful, however these five areas make up what Objective Management Group calls the Will to Manage Sales.

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Groups Objections Sales Sales Management 201

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

My entire career had been sales and sales management, and my best business had always come from referrals. I asked salespeople and sales leaders I knew if they liked to get referral introductions. I was a member of a leads group at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. I knew the people in my group well.

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Referrals Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Inbound 385

Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I dive into part two of my conversation with sales leadership expert Mike Weinberg on what new sales managers need to do to get off to a successful start. He credits Mary Gardner, the Area Vice President of his group, for fundamentally shaping his approach to sales leadership.

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Sales Management Sales Leadership Coaching Selling Skills 94

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 9, 2024

million salespeople assessed by Objective Management Group (OMG), only 72% of all salespeople are committed to their sales success and if we look at the largest population – the weakest 50% – only a little more than half of that group are committed. Lack of sales training. Why would they practice?

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Commission Hotels Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 194

Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I interviewed sales manager, sales person, sales trainer and all around smart guy Jorge Soto. I asked Jorge about how he uses Sales 2.0 There are also a ton of great content, user groups, and company information that you can find within Linkedin. This week is one of those weeks.

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Hiring Jigsaw Social Media Cold Calling 384

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

These famous words from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice equally apply to our sales pipeline. As sales managers, we know from experience that when we review the opportunities our sales reps have promised to close this month, next month and the next 90 day, that they won’t all close. But which ones will close?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face 49

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 7, 2018

Author: Bob Junke Recently, I had the honor of being asked by the Sales Enablement Society (SES) to offer my definition of sales enablement as an alternative to the one the SES Definition Working Group came up with. Defining sales enablement is important. The result is a buyer-centric approach to sales enablement.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 26, 2023

This year, we're celebrating a huge milestone- 30 Years of Anthony Cole Training Group. In 1993, Linda and Tony Cole decided to start their own training and development company. In this video, Tony shares 5 things that have helped us grow and serve others in these 30 years.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This is from the deep data warehouse of Objective Management Group, our partner and the pioneer of the sales assessment. Unfortunately, we also know that less than 10% of sales managers are considered highly effective at this critical role of coaching.

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Coaching Report Groups Objections 173

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 25, 2021

Lori has always been a proactive promoter for women in sales—getting more women on the podium, showcasing their blogs and podcasts, and always looking for opportunities to let women know about the honorable profession of sales. Jill Konrath has also become a household name in the sales community.

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