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This is How Sales Managers Should Coach Their Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Sales Management must spend 50% of their time coaching salespeople like this: An enormous part of developing salespeople these days is helping them to differentiate themselves from your competitors. That creates urgency, and an incentive for a prospect to self-qualify. I will share the article I wrote for EcSell below.

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25 Sales Experts on the Importance of Coaching Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

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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New Product? Don’t Forget to Update the Sales Compensation Plan

SBI Growth

As the leader of sales operations, I am sure you are working on: Updating CRM systems with new product information. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps. Modifying sales reports and dashboards to enable sales managers to track new product sales. Average Sales Cycle.

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How Big Data Can Help the Sales Leader

SBI Growth

Right now, most sales organizations predict deal closure probability in two ways: Sales Stage : Each stage has fixed probability assigned to it. When a Sales Opportunity moves forward in the sales cycle, the probability increases. This creates a huge headache for every sales manager.

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Look for Potential in the Next Generation of Sales Hires

Understanding the Sales Force

With all of that information about their past, how can you possibly gauge potential when hiring for your sales force? Objective Management Group (OMG) has three candidate assessments that provide companies with exactly that for sales, sales management, and sales leadership (VP/Sales Director).

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Keeping Good Salespeople is Harder Than Finding Them!

Jeffrey Gitomer

Instill pride for sales. Have incentives and contests to keep it competitive. Pay a larger incentive the second time. Have them fill out sales reports every week by prospect status. Don’t track sales people by time (what they did on Tuesday). Look at the sales cycle and the follow-up activity.

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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it.

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