Mike Kunkle

JULY 4, 2022

There’s another alignment and partnership opportunity that gets a lot less airplay yet has equal or greater potential to drive sales results: the alignment and partnership between Sales Enablement and Front-line Sales Managers (FLSMs). Sales Enablement initiatives ARE Change Management projects. Absolutely.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Only 40% of sales professionals report a well-established coaching culture at their organization. Just 42% say sales managers at their organization are actually held accountable for providing good coaching. Have your salesperson write out a plan of action after your evaluation and revisit the plan at your one-on-one meetings.

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DemandFarm

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Efficient sales leadership becomes essential to navigate these challenges and remain competitive. Sales leaders not only set strategies and inspire teams to achieve results but also play a vital role beyond mere management. Different leadership styles intertwine with sales.

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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

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

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 leaders have to be able to make tough decisions quickly and effectively.

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Zendesk

OCTOBER 4, 2021

During the company’s all-hands meeting, you find out a sales manager role has opened up. As a seasoned sales rep, you naturally get excited—until you realize that you don’t know how to transition from a sales agent to a sales manager. What is a sales manager? Hire sales team members.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Even staff members notice a serious gap: 91% express accountability as their employer’s top leadership-development need. Simply put, the time to bolster accountability is now, and this all begins with leadership. What Is Accountability in Leadership? Making mistakes is inevitable in the workplace.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The jump from salesperson to sales manager is extremely challenging. A manager has an entirely different job: Leading, inspiring, coaching, and training a team. Whether you’re a salesperson trying to move up or an executive interviewing a candidate, it’s key to assess leadership potential. Leadership Interview Questions.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Onboarding and training new hires is another sales management responsibilities.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It’s challenging to work in sales management today. Sales managers often resemble Atlas, tasked with holding up the world as their areas of responsibility are ever-increasing: managing their team and market. delivering stronger sales results. Sales Organizations Continuously Reinvent Themselves.

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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

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Assess your strengths as a manager. What is your management style? The book focuses on knowing yourself. “One

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2022

One of my first customer visits as a young sales manager was in support of a salesperson — with a client I hadn't met before. As a result, the customer had researched other supply sources — and as we sat down for the meeting, he told us that he could buy the same product for half the price. 5 Traps to Avoid as a Sales Manager.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 22, 2018

Sales manager job description. Sales managers are responsible for helping their reps meet individual quota, getting the team to hit quota, forecasting sales and running sales reports, providing mentorship and training, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new salespeople, and more. Company description.

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Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

As a sales manager, you want to make sure your team has everything they need to succeed. The answer is resource management skills—a crucial but often overlooked skill in the sales manager’s toolkit. Table of Contents What is resource management for sales?

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Engage Selling

MARCH 12, 2021

That means they are quick to conduct meetings and action important ideas. Conduct … Read More » The post The Critical Mistake Sales Managers Make | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader. The most successful organizations I work with right now are nimble.

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Zendesk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

However, remote sales teams have a bigger hurdle when it comes to forging genuine human connections—and not just between sales representatives and customers, but also between one another. How to build a remote sales team. There are many budgetary and logistical questions to consider when building a virtual sales team.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 19, 2024

Furthermore, the Sales Coaching System is a subset of the Sales Management System. It should go without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that front-line sales managers should always know what is being trained and be prepared to support it. Sales Management System [Click the image to view a larger version.]

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 13, 2020

Sales managers normally face a trifecta of shifting demands from buyers, their direct reports and their organization. The COVID-19 pandemic gives sales managers the perfect opportunity to work toward transforming into more capable leaders. Shift From a Sales Manager’s Mindset to Sales Leader’s Mindset.

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Nutshell

MAY 16, 2019

Do you dream of leaving your sales associate desk behind and stepping up to a sales management position? The arrangements may vary from company to company, but in general, most sales professionals would jump at the chance to assume a leadership role. Are you Sure You Want to Become a Sales Manager?

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Revenue Storm

MARCH 15, 2022

Many Sales Leaders are still adapting to the remote or hybrid working environment, which has helped fuel the talent frenzy. IF they do not meet expectations, the cycle continues, and the sales organization or team falls further behind. The post Common Sense Leadership in a Chaotic Environment appeared first on Revenue Storm.

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Nutshell

DECEMBER 28, 2018

A 1:1 sales meeting provides sales managers and sales reps time for reflection and goal setting, as well as an opportunity for both sides to raise their concerns. As a manager, you shouldn’t look at your weekly individual meetings as simply a time to go over sales numbers.

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Nutshell

MARCH 11, 2019

You’ve probably just landed a new sales leadership role, and you want to make the transition as successful as possible. While this is an exciting time for you, it’s also a time of change for your sales reps. Adjusting to a new sales manager can be difficult, especially if the last person in charge was well-liked by the team.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In her new book, Helen writes that the hybrid work revolution has made sales management the most pivotal role in the innovation economy. To be successful you must be adept at both implementing and executing a system of sales management AND winning the hearts of your sellers. Why sales leadership is personal.

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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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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Luckily, some major companies, like LinkedIn, have discovered a way to improve sales relationships, customer trust, and — ultimately — sales numbers. Recently, HubSpot sat down with Kwesi Graves , Regional Sales Manager at LinkedIn, to learn more about how he centers his team's sales approach completely around the ideal buyer.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Sales management is one of the most difficult jobs out there. Your responsibilities span the organization -- along with the VP or director of sales, you're working with people in Product, Marketing, HR, and so on. Most importantly, managers are responsible for the individual and collective success of their salespeople.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Sales managers are responsible for growing revenue. That means 1) providing sales reps with the guidance they need to continuously improve, 2) building a sales process that gives reps the best chance at closing each lead, and 3) understanding which efforts are moving the needle and which are a waste of energy.

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Chally

MARCH 5, 2020

All too often, new sales managers land in a leadership role based on their ability to sell. Because of this, many don’t know the first thing about sales talent management. Failing to Establish a Repeatable Sales Processes. Most sales managers want salespeople to be happy and independent.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 29, 2018

One-on-One Meeting Questions. A few years ago, I wrote the book 1-on-1 Management: What Every Great Manager Knows That You Don’t. In my experience, one thing great managers understand that their ineffective counterparts do not is the value of one-on-one meetings. Tell me about last week.". What about this week?

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

When considering how long a founder should stay directly involved in sales or sales leadership, several factors come into play: Company performance. Are the sales results strong? If the team is happy and stable and you are hitting your targets, then a leadership change could be counter-productive. Founder strength.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 30, 2023

Enablement professionals don’t market, they don’t sell, and we don’t directly manage front-line sellers nor sales managers. At least in those organizations, the enablement team was not seen as critical in difficult times or able to support the sales force in getting better results in a crunch.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How Do I Get Promoted to Sales Manager? But sales is a labor-intensive job. The day-to-day stress can be deflating, and most of the time, it takes everything you’ve got just to meet your goal. The day-to-day stress can be deflating, and most of the time, it takes everything you’ve got just to meet your goal.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. Not to mention those chosen to lead the sales team actually take a pay cut -- often earning less than their direct reports. Tell me about yourself.

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