Mike Kunkle

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So, in this article, I’ll explore fostering a relentlessly customer-centric culture, refining your ICP and optimizing territories, sharpening sales messaging, deepening discovery skills, training sellers on buying process exit criteria, and enhancing manager coaching skills. They just need to be done and executed well.

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Brooks Group

MAY 3, 2022

Companies with salespeople who sell around the globe are starting to recognize the importance of finding effective sales training to create a standardized approach throughout their organization. Standardized global training also prepares your people to grow inside your own organization.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

There are no one-fits-all solutions for sales training. The best programs are the ones tailored to your organization and sales force. That is where role-specific sales training comes in. Role-specific sales training considers the different types of sellers on your team. What Is Sales Training?

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Brooks Group

MARCH 7, 2024

Procurement managers have a reputation for focusing only on price. Or can sales professionals engage purchasing managers, buyers, and agents differently to have more success selling to them? Buyers generally make up their minds in the first few seconds whether the time spent with you is going to be valuable.

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Brooks Group

JUNE 26, 2023

More than ever, sales professionals need sales training programs that can help them keep pace with the demands of the modern sales process. Sales training pays off in many ways. A recent study by Accenture found that every dollar spent on training got a $4.53 What is Sales Training?

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

From negotiation to messaging personalization, sales managers and employees can improve their communication skills with anybody by taking enterprise sales training. Understanding your clients is essential to communication and sales in the business world.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Finance, operations, and management, oh my! Bigger deals usually mean bigger committees, which present unique challenges compared to selling to an individual decision maker or even a small group. But with the right skills and tactics, sales leaders can equip their teams to overcome challenges and win these deals.

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Mike Kunkle

APRIL 8, 2023

In this post, I’m going to share some simple concepts that I’ve seen deliver radically improved results across a sales force. And by “radically,” I mean improve opportunity management effectiveness and skyrocket win rates by 25-40%. It’s entirely possible. Here’s what I mean.

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Mike Kunkle

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Nowhere is this truer than with the commercial organization. It shifts the focus from “revenue enablement” (which – I’m sorry – is internal, seller- and company-centric) to the broader functions of the commercial organization, in a more buyer- and customer-centric paradigm. One that I will expand over time from this foundation.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 25, 2024

Proven Strategies for Sales Results In today’s competitive selling environment, having a consistent, repeatable sales process is critical for driving revenue growth. Over the past 45 years, one million sales professionals worldwide have learned the IMPACT Selling sales process.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 30, 2023

To firmly establish the function as required and themselves as integral players in their companies, enablement experts must be equipped to prove their worth by improving sales results and bolstering profitability. They must show that they can make an impact with enablement and move the needle on the metrics that matter most.

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Zendesk

JUNE 28, 2022

While some sales reps may come in with sharper instincts or more charisma than others, we know there are still dozens of techniques and tactics that can be taught to foster a more successful all-around sales rep—and the data backs it. It’s clear that providing your team with thorough sales training is well worth the effort.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Then, the rest of this makes sense and can be really valuable. Targeted Performance: meaning a specific effort focused on a KPI in need of improvement, such as decreasing Closed-Lost or No Decision rates and improving Closed-Won rates, or improving overall profitability in a certain product line where deep discounting is rampant.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 28, 2024

As buying processes grow more complex, it’s becoming increasingly important for sales professionals to gain access to senior executives and C-level decision makers. Gone are the days when you could simply sell to a mid-level manager. C-level roles can vary depending on the size and structure of the organization.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Sales training is essential to your company’s success. It’s a powerful tool for developing the full potential of every sales professional on your team. Part of our rigorous screening and training process includes making sure each of our sales trainers has the following skills and characteristics.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 8, 2023

Let’s dive into the key barriers that often hinder sales leaders from reaching the full potential for their sales forces and explore strategies to break through these limitations. When sales, marketing, and customer success operate in isolated bubbles, opportunities for collaboration and synergy are lost.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 23, 2024

As you consider whether a sales career is the right fit for you, it’s crucial to understand both the upsides and the downsides. This blog post takes a deep dive into the key benefits and drawbacks of the sales profession to help you make an informed decision.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Unfortunately, many sales leaders may be aware that their managers need to spend more time coaching, but formal programs tend to be poorly executed or non-existent. Gartner research reveals that many organizations lack effective coaching. Your sales professionals would rather learn for themselves than be told what to do.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

Technical Sales Manager Skills The sales manager plays an important role in any organization. Besides having soft skills, communication skills, and other common skills to boost sales performance, some technical skills are required for consistent success. Customer Satisfaction 10.7%

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Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Sales team management software is being used widely by many companies to boost their revenues. What Is Sales Management? A sales management process involves working together towards a common goal to increase profit and revenue targets by implementing strategies to help the sales team hit set targets.

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 30, 2023

It’s organizational behavioral change management, for sure, and requires both smart and hard work. The goal of “enablement,” whichever term you use for it (sales, revenue, buyer, buying, performance, other) is ultimately to improve organizational performance. Which, earlier, we said wasn’t easy either. So, what’s an enabler to do?

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Decision-making Sales Training Sales Stakeholders 295

Mike Kunkle

MAY 11, 2022

I’ve been involved in sales transformations that were entirely focused on getting the best-possible performance out of the sales force (ranging from a 30 to 600 percent increase in sales), independent of retooling the rest of the organization. Sales Acumen. How to plan and organize effectively.

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Corporate Visions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The post Four Tested and Proven Sales Training Techniques You Need to Know by Anton Rius appeared first on Corporate Visions. A key part of developing a successful sales team is using sales training techniques that actually work. Sales Training Techniques to Improve Your Team’s Performance.

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Brooks Group

JULY 13, 2023

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of blog posts about the most important sales manager skills. Others discuss how to coach and the need for data-driven decisions. Still more provide readers with tips and tricks for getting sales teams to take action toward desired outcomes. But, really, I have no idea what I’m doing.”

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Account Manager Tips

AUGUST 4, 2022

B2B Book Club Selection (August 2022) A monthly selection of handpicked business books specifically to help key account managers get better results for their clients, companies and careers. Account Manager Tips · 1. Why Introverts Make Better Networkers. Clash of the Generations: Managing the New Workplace Reality Why this book?

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Brooks Group

JULY 27, 2023

Our IMPACT sales training program gives sales teams a proven framework to connect with prospects, ask the right questions, and truly understand their business challenges. No one wants to hear, “I’ll have to run it by my manager” after they’ve spent time preparing and presenting.

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Arpedio

APRIL 15, 2024

By providing sales professionals with the right information at the right time, sales enablement empowers them to deliver value-driven solutions that address customer needs. One of the key benefits of sales enablement is its ability to align marketing and sales efforts.

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Brooks Group

MAY 23, 2024

Sales hiring assessments are now an essential element of a B2B sales leader’s expertise. Hiring the wrong person for a sales role, whether due to a lack of necessary skills or a poor cultural fit, can have serious negative consequences for an organization.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 21, 2024

Only 41% of underperforming teams are effective at sales discovery and questioning. It turns out, most sales organizations are not using the most effective sales questioning techniques. That means sales organizations are leaving a ton of potential on the table when it comes to questioning.

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Mike Kunkle

JULY 2, 2022

The function names are many: we have sales enablement, revenue enablement, sales effectiveness, commercial excellence, sales or revenue operations (which have other responsibilities but take on tasks that are typically now included under the enablement umbrella), buyer enablement, buying enablement, and more.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 20, 2020

At a time when sellers have immense pressure to close deals with limited time to engage customers, sales technology is an invaluable tool to give organizations clarity regarding what they need to do to be successful. How does Korn Ferry Sell change the game for everyone in your sales organization? higher win rates and 8.1%

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Mike Kunkle

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Thoughts on Viewing Sales Process Differently If I were doing process design internally, creating process for something within my span of control at work, or running engineering or a manufacturing line, I would follow Deming’s advice to a tee, to reduce or eliminate variation and deviation as much as possible.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This disparity isn’t surprising, as a number of factors have come together in recent years to make B2B sales more challenging than ever: That same HubSpot report also found that 38% of salespeople say getting a response from prospects is getting more difficult. Because every sale starts with a connection. Sales Gravy.

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Mike Kunkle

MARCH 31, 2023

Sales Methodology Sales methodology refers to the overall approach that sellers use to engage with potential customers, manage the sales process, close opportunities, and manage accounts. It includes frameworks, models, steps, and techniques that sellers use to open and win an opportunity or manage an account.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 4, 2023

Sales Leadership: Qualities Of A Sales Leader To be an effective leader, you need to make appropriate strategic decisions that fit within your organization’s vision and goals. What Are The Qualities of Successful Sales Leaders? Sales is a mentoring-based career. What Is Sales Leadership?

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, sales performance and effectiveness are crucial to the success of any organization. To stay ahead of the competition, it is essential to have a well-defined sales strategy , optimized sales tactics , and a sales team that is aligned with the business goals.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 21, 2023

Before attempting to develop a key account management strategy, you must know how to identify these key accounts. Let’s examine what strategic account management is and the best ways to approach it. What is strategic account management? Key accounts are the 20% of accounts that generate 80% of your company revenue.

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