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From Player to Coach: Helping New Sales Managers Succeed

Miller Heiman Group

Sales managers influence what salespeople sell, where they sell, who they sell to and even how they sell. These factors make the sales manager role one of the most influential and demanding jobs in any company engaged in complex B2B sales. How many direct reports do sales managers have in your company? Maybe more?

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Achieving Sales Team Excellence with a Coaching Culture

Anthony Cole Training

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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Effective Coaching with Sales Performance Metrics

Anthony Cole Training

But effective coaching with sales performance data often becomes the greater challenge with sales managers and leaders. In our coaching platform, we offer several tools to help in this area and one of the most effective, easy to understand and utilize is sales data insight that comes from regular Sales Huddles.

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Coaching and the Importance of Constructive Sales Feedback

Anthony Cole Training

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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Leaders, Don’t Play Super-Rep! When Helping Your Team Actually Hurts

Cerebral Selling

Some of the most common and innocent interactions between sales reps and their managers can also be the most harmful. Many sales leaders earned the opportunity to manage teams of their own because they were top-performing individual contributors. What should I say to get them back to the table?” Should we agree?” “I Should I push back?”

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Real Life B2B Sales Coaching Scenarios with Examples

Iannarino

It isn’t easy for a sales manager to run a sales team. Improving your sales force’s results requires training, development, and sales coaching. The benefits of sales coaching include better engagement from your salespeople while helping you ensure they succeed in reaching their goals.

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25 Sales Experts on the Importance of Coaching Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

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. But it’s not really their fault. Well, not really. It was good advice.

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