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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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

I scheduled a five-minute pre-screening call with a candidate who was recommended and scored quite high on the OMG sales candidate assessment. Within the Sales Posturing Competency, he had a weakness in the attribute, Maintains Appropriate Amount of Patience. what a complete joke you are and your “Bliblical sales study?”

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Which brings me to sales cycles. Do you know what actually determines the length of your sales cycle? A lot of sales leaders and their salespeople believe that sales cycles are determined by their industry, or are specific to the industries they sell to. Short Foliage Cycle. Understand this.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2025

The email came in, “We need training. We’ve seen your programs before, can you talk to us about a training program?” ” I quickly arranged a discussion, “What kind of training do you need?” ” “We need sales training,” came the response. ” I ask.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 20, 2025

Unfortunately, many companies overlook the importance of training their leaders, expecting them to succeed with little to no preparation. Leadership is a challenging yet vital role in any organization. Great leaders can drive a company to success, while ineffective ones can lead to its downfall.

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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

APRIL 25, 2025

Coaching of sales teams is usually done as needs arise. If a salesperson has a deal he needs to close, he may talk it through with his sales manager. But ultimately, we must coach for sales success. Or if a salesperson has a specific problem submitting paperwork or with technology, coaching may take place.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 17, 2024

According to HubSpot, companies with well-optimized sales pipelines reported a 28% higher revenue growth rate compared to those with poorly managed pipelines. 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?

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SalesFuel

MAY 8, 2025

SalesFuel has been recognized by Selling Power as one of the Top Sales Training Companies for 2025. According to Selling Power publisher and founder Gerhard Gschwandtner, quality sales training remains paramount to B2B sales success. They accelerated our sales results by 10x! SalesFuel CEO C.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

There are few responsibilities in life more important than being a coach, whether for a sports team, teaching mastery of a musical instrument, or serving as a sales coach. How does a sales coach find the time and motivation?

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 28, 2025

There are several components to being a good sales coach. Often, sales coaches do not understand the difference between holding people accountable to the sales activities (e.g. Here, you will focus on the technique of consistent sales coaching, not on holding people accountable to their numbers.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A sustainable sales goal plan is more than just thinking about and writing down goals. They have a timeframe that they stick to and their goals are defined and measurable. Lastly, they have an accountability partner or a coach to keep them on track. Goals without actions and a strategic plan are just thoughts you have about what might happen.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 3, 2025

Lets explore how these two factors perception and consistency impact sales performance. On the bright side, my depth perception struggles make for good laughsjust ask my daughter Alex about me trying to light candles on a birthday cake.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 11, 2024

When asked, most sales managers say that one of their greatest challenges is their ability to motivate salespeople. If a sales manager can figure out what makes their salespeople “tick,” they can help them hit their goal numbers. Motivation seems like hard work because nearly every salesperson values different things.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 24, 2025

Most sales managers spend less than 10% of their time coaching their people, and only one-third 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. And remember, not all coaching is effective.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 25, 2024

That expertise, if well developed and articulated, is your personal brand and will lead to greater sales success. If the investment is significant enough, most buyers will look for an expert in the area to guide them, particularly in the world of financial services.

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Vengreso

MARCH 26, 2025

Mastering sales fundamentals has become more crucial than ever for sales professionals. Whether you’re new to the field or looking to close more sales, online sales training offers a flexible and effective path to success. Here are the essential sales skills that sales training programs provide.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Most sales teams win fewer than half their “games,” and while defense can’t be blamed, pitching can! Unlike the Red Sox, most sales teams have too much pitching (demos and presentations)! They will be part of the company’s future with proper training and coaching.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 6, 2025

Last week I wrote this important article about how you can use sales process to increase revenue by 28%. Lets make the assumption that you either have or are about to have a comprehensive custom, staged, milestone-centric, buyer-focused sales process with predictive sales scorecard. What are the next steps?

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Digital isnt a sales strategy. A sales strategy isnt about tools or trendsits about how your company attracts and serves customers. Yet, too many sales leaders fall into the trap of believing the latest digital sales tools or automation platforms will solve their sales prospecting problems. Hope isnt a strategy.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 16, 2025

For example, if you sell capital equipment to the C Suite and you have a 2-year sales cycle for a 7 to 8 figure sale, the rate of conversion from dials to conversations to meetings could be 15 dials to 1 conversation and 10 conversations to 1 new meeting. That would be 200 dials for 1 new meetings booked – per week.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

These are not elusive skills; they are identified by our partner and industry-leading sales evaluation company, Objective Management Group (OMG). Now, the buyer is in the drivers seat, and the only way to differentiate in a commoditized world is to master effective selling skills.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2025

Go-to-market teams that adopt AI-powered sales automation can reap major benefits: research shows they spend more time with customers, drive higher customer satisfaction, and most importantly, boost sales by up to 10%. But savvy sales leaders know AI isnt a magic wand that can close deals for you.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

An effective sales pitch should begin with the early "bonding and rapport" part of selling. An effective sales pitch should begin with identifying areas of connection, often achieved by doing research on the industry and client prior to the meeting. Finding commonality and relating to a prospect is an important first step.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This article is the 1st place winner of the 2022 Sales Pro Central MVP Awards on Sales Leadership! In our sales management training, we have developed 10 keys and a framework of activities that provide a new or tenured sales leader with a roadmap they need to put in place to help lead their team to greater sales success.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 25, 2024

Rusty sales skills won’t win the gold. It’s the same for your sales team. If you want this to be a game-changing year, it’s up to the CRO to make skills-building and practice a requirement, an integral part of your culture, and a major component of your sales strategy. They train with unparalleled rigor.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I read the majority of the reports, studies, white papers, and books related to sales development because others in the field might stumble onto a trend, an insight or a statistic of which I was not aware. That’s why I downloaded Xactly’s 2025 Sales Compensation Survey. The next finding explains the previous finding.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 7, 2025

Sales enablement has boomed. The State of Sales Enablement Report for 2023 found that the number of businesses with a dedicated sales enablement team has grown to 90%, up from 75% in 2022.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 31, 2025

Many of my clients and prospects tell me that the 4th quarter is when they take time to discuss sales plans (goals) and business plans with their salespeople. The purpose, obviously, is to get everyone on the same page with expectations of performance for the coming year.

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