Brooks Group

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Exceptional sales management is key to an organization’s success—yet the role of a sales manager is one of the most challenging. Leading a sales team has become more difficult due to an evolving business landscape, technological advancements, changing customer expectations, and a host of other factors.

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 5, 2021

We at The Brooks Group took the pulse of your fellow sales leaders throughout 2020, and as the year drew to a close, it appeared that many of your contemporaries were taking steps to shore up their leadership playbook to reflect the dynamics of the times. Salespeople must have the ability to usher a sale from beginning to end.

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Sales Readiness Group

MARCH 31, 2021

Last week, I surveyed 53 sales managers, asking them, among other things, what essential skills their top-performing salespeople possess. Okay, it wasn’t an actual survey.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Training Alone Won’t Develop Sales Leaders UK companies spent a combined £13 billion on sales training last year. They made this investment with the hope that training would dramatically improve. [[ This is a content summary only. Sales Management Sales coaching sales development sales leadership'

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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. Still more provide readers with tips and tricks for getting sales teams to take action toward desired outcomes. As any good sales manager will tell you, a skill is an ability that can be learned and improved through practice.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 19, 2019

Sales training is a big investment. Not only are you paying for the training itself and related expenses, but your sales team is also losing prime selling hours to attend workshops and sessions. Nonetheless, this investment can reap significant benefits and set your sales teams up for success. Of course not.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry. Clearly, if your team needs sales training, there's a lot of options out there. Tracy’s company, Brian Tracy International, offers training on a variety of subjects.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This is understandable when you consider that data shared in the Harvard Business Review suggests that 90% of decision makers won’t respond to cold calls, according to Sales Leadership Forum. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales.

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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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MTD Sales Training

MAY 30, 2012

One of the main questions I get from sales people is what to do when trapped under ineffective, negative, de-motivating or otherwise, bad sales management. Being a sales director myself, I hesitate to align myself with unfounded complaints about sales management. Sean McPheat MTD Sales Training.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

"I had no idea Dave was going to struggle so much as a Sales Manager. This post is written for the VP of Sales who wants to eliminate promoting the wrong rep to sales manager. The Answer: Implement a Sales Leadership Council (SLC). You had a hunch they would hate managing. Sound familiar?

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SBI

JULY 9, 2019

The3 C’s Needed to Achieve Your Sales Training Goals. We like sharing our wins and cursing our losses, but we also enjoy discussing big-picture issues, like the challenges we face, where the sales industry is as a whole, and where it’s going. Of course, training for training’s sake can be ineffective.

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Sales Readiness Group

MARCH 2, 2022

One key takeaway from the pandemic is the heightened importance of how sales managers communicate with their teams. Since the beginning, managers have dealt with a myriad of employee issues that require empathy and understanding.

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Showpad

JULY 25, 2019

A coach sets the tone for success, creates a strategy, and provides continuous sales training and support so the team can reach its full potential. In Sales, front line Sales managers take on the role of coaches, supporting and developing team members day in and day out in their sales execution.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 8, 2019

Last year, the average sales organization saw revenue attainment of 101%, according to CSO Insights, the research division of Miller Heiman Group. While that seems like good news, it’s a lagging indicator—and looking backward, rather than forward, won’t help sales leadership see their future.

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Brooks Group

AUGUST 2, 2023

This gives sales managers a tool to target and deliver their coaching in the most effective way. Elevate Your Sales Team’s Performance When a player is willing to listen to instruction, they begin to improve their level of play, which, in turn, improves the play of the team.

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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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Mike Kunkle

MAY 11, 2022

Sales Training. Build sales onboarding/ongoing training that supports business objectives. Teach sales process and sales methodology. Develop ongoing training to close sales competency gaps. Train managers then reps. Sales Coaching. Sales Manager Enablement.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 17, 2011

Filed Under: Attitude , Generating Referrals , Networking , Presenting , Sales , Success Tagged With: attitude training , corporate sales training , customer loyalty training , customer service , how to sell , Jeffrey gitomer , jefrrey gitomer , professional sales training , sales blog , sales leadership , sales training , selling skills.

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Brooks Group

JULY 27, 2022

As we pass the half-way point of the year, sales managers may start to hear a few grumblings that quotas are too high. While it’s wise to reassess sales targets to make sure they are realistic, assuming they are too high might be a mistake. The post Are Your Sales Targets Too High?

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

This domain covers impactful knowledge transfer and effective skill development, and is supported by targeted coaching across the entire sales cycle. In other words, all the sales training initiatives including your onboarding program are covered in this enablement domain. Selling challenges directly linked to sales readiness.

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Brooks Group

JULY 15, 2022

We talk a lot about this in our Sales Leadership Accelerator , which is our sales management program. Learn More About The Sales Leadership Accelerator. appeared first on Sales Training Company - Award Winning Sales Training Classes & Seminars.

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Brooks Group

JUNE 16, 2021

In fact, “space” is the essence of our latest innovation, Brooks(OS) – a sales training program that uses space as an ally, rather than a hindrance, to reinforce sales training lessons. Thus, we had no choice but to divide our IMPACT Learning Sales Training into shorter, and more digestible, chunks.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

AUGUST 3, 2011

Filed Under: Attitude , Customer Loyalty , Generating Referrals , Sales Tagged With: attitude training , building trust , establishing trust , gitomer , how to sell , Jeffrey gitomer , jefrrey gitomer , sales leadership , sales skills. Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Videos.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Filed Under: Leadership , Sales Tagged With: building trust , business social media , gitomer , how to sell , Jeffrey gitomer , jefrrey gitomer , sales blog , sales leadership , sales training , selling skills , social media marketing. Get Sales Blog Updates. Leadership. Sales Videos.

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Sales Readiness Group

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It's been quite a year for sales leaders across the country. We hope that implementing some of these strategies and tactics made your sales teams run more smoothly in 2021. Before we gaze ahead to 2022, we want to take a quick look back at 2021, and remember how far we've come. Here are some of our most-read posts of the year.

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As technology changes, so must our sales approach and related sales technologies. The standards of the sales industry changes rapidly, and it can be challenging to keep ahead in the face of these alterations. A sales team should be able to adapt to any potential scenario, foreseen or otherwise, in a sales situation.

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Brooks Group

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Obviously, this can be broken down into monthly or annual goals and can be applied to an individual sales rep, sales manager, regional manager, or the company as a whole. For our purposes, we will be discussing sales goals as they relate to the sales manager. All calls are not created equal.

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 26, 2017

When you’re part of an organization whose sales team is spread out over a large territory, it’s easy to lose touch with what’s happening on the front lines, where staff work directly with prospects and customers. Your sales managers are … Read More »

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Brooks Group

APRIL 17, 2023

All sales enablement leaders need to understand how to implement strategies for sales training and customer engagement, as with these things, a business will last for a while. After initial training, sales representatives should continue to have ongoing training when a new technology enters the business.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Today’s post focuses on the missing link: Enabling your front-line sales managers. Without strong front-line sales managers, your chances of making the number are low. How can you help your sales managers execute? Download the CEO’s Sales Manager Test to help with this. Why Sales Managers Fail.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 16, 2013

Tweet REALITY QUESTION FOR SALES MANAGERS: Why would you, as a leader, take an improving salesperson who is having the best year of their career, and tell him or her they’re “not making enough calls”? You’re an idiot who knows nothing about leadership, coaching, or creating winners. Why not do something to actually help?

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Jeffrey Gitomer

APRIL 25, 2013

Accountability is the number one recurring theme throughout sales leadership in the United States. Sales leaders want their salespeople to be more accountable for their actions, activity, numbers, and (of course) sales. And it’s TOTALLY WRONG, TOTALLY BACKWARD, TOTALLY INSULTING, and TOTALLY ANTI-SALES.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

AA-ISP Digital Sales World 2018. Sandler Sales & Leadership Summit. TOPO Sales Summit. SiriusDecisions Sales Leadership Exchange. CEB Sales and Marketing Summit. Sales Conferences 2017. Content is tailored for those in sales development, sales operations, and sales leadership roles.

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Engage Selling

MARCH 11, 2017

This is the fifth of a six article series on the future of sales that I wrote for the Adobe Document Cloud Blog. You can check it out there along with content from other great authors… In this six-part series … Read More »

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 19, 2021

With so many companies forced to shift their sales kickoff to the virtual arena, according to our survey, most sales managers favor a straightforward, back-to-basics affair with a focus on selling skills, training, and the role that virtual tools play in the new sales landscape. . To learn more, reach out.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2023

During his tenure at Businessland, Dan advanced into sales management, covered various territories, got his first experience with sales training, and ultimately helped grow the company from $2 million in sales to $1.4 billion in just nine years. Always break down goals by revenue, new customers, and retention.

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