Sales Readiness Group

JUNE 30, 2021

Most companies don’t go through the process of hiring a sales training partner very often. When they do, they’re often looking to be educated about the selection process – or, in a worst-case scenario, influenced toward an ineffective solution by an unscrupulous vendor.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You’ve just been promoted to sales management. Here’s some helpful advice for new sales managers to help you thrive in your new role and turn those butterflies into fuel for success. What Is a Sales Manager Responsible For? This may involve directly managing some high-priority customers.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 25, 2019

Here are some sales manager resume tips and templates to calm your nerves and help you get the job of your dreams. Sales Manager Resume Tips. I spoke with Pratik 'Tiki' Biswal , a senior sales manager at HubSpot, and he provided some resume writing tips. Sales Manager Resume Objective.

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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. Best Sales Videos. Sales Videos by Well-Known Selling Experts. 1) Jeffrey Gitomer.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 1, 2022

Studies indicate that participants in traditional curriculum-based training forget more than 80 percent of the information they were taught within 90 days. Sales training that sticks, however, results in behavior change because it’s reinforced. That requires involvement and buy-in from both sales leaders and salespeople.

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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. Some are neutral.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What’s the Difference Between Role-specific and General Training? Sales training typically accomplishes one of two things. . The training will either provide learning around a specific skill, or the training is focused on improving the learner’s ability to succeed in their entire role. Sales Manager.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 5, 2021

Exemplary sales managers don't just pop up out of nowhere. And very few — if any — reps can assume a management role and thrive, based strictly on intuition. No, it takes thorough, thoughtful training to get there, and that process is rarely self-explanatory. Make training an ongoing process.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. There is no room for failure in today’s competitive sales landscape. It can also offer insight into automating sales processes to free up more of your team’s time.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 12, 2021

But when it comes to sales, some managers might have trouble delivering on it — often through no fault of their own. Here, we'll review some common sales coaching challenges, go over how to approach them, and identify the key qualities of reps that are flat-out uncoachable. How to Handle Coaching Challenges.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A sales training initiative can be one of the most impactful things you can do to improve your organization’s success. What is a Sales Training Reinforcement Program? Sales training is designed to teach your sales team new techniques and skills.

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RAIN Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This is what makes recurring sales training programs so valuable. Yet even after the most engaging, resonant sales training programs , sellers tend to revert back to what they’re accustomed to doing. Which puts a heavy onus on sales managers.

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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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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Take a hard look at the best sales teams -- the ones that really blow their quota out of the water. Look past the high fives, the ring of the sales bell, or even the energy on the floor at any given moment. You’ll see the best sales teams are getting better every single day. 4 Tips for a Winning Sales Culture.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, I sit down with Mike Weinberg for Part One of our conversation on the state of the Sales Profession, sales leadership, and getting started as a new sales manager. This shift requires not only a change in skills but also a fundamental shift in mindset.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Last week, the CMI and Glassdoor published their research findings on management trends in their paper ‘Leadership and Culture at Work.’. More Frequent Performance Reviews: The top 20 companies saw performance management as an opportunity to fuel personal development and growth, not a check-up on results. Managing Director.

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Brooks Group

JULY 7, 2023

Sales training can be one of the most critical investments you make for your team. Salespeople often resist training, viewing it as a hassle that takes them away from their work. In fact, according to Training Industry , more than a quarter of salespeople feel that their sales training is ineffective.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the role of Chief Revenue Officers (CROs) or senior-most sales leaders (by any title), has never been more critical. When sales, marketing, and customer success operate in isolated bubbles, opportunities for collaboration and synergy are lost. This is a definite growth killer.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

These are the skills your sales team needs to survive. If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. Sometimes, this works.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales. Adaptive Business Blog.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 4, 2025

Effective sales coaching can have a huge impact on your business. The biggest benefit is its contribution to revenue: Sales coaching boosts team performance, with real-time coaching increasing annual revenue by 8%. But some sales organizations lack formal, well-executed sales coaching programs.

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Brooks Group

AUGUST 8, 2023

For sales teams, understanding each sales professional’s personality can help align strengths and weaknesses to create a high-performing sales force. How does DISC help sales professionals? Building a high-performing sales team requires more than just industry knowledge and a persuasive style.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 12, 2021

As a sales manager, ensuring that your team's communication with prospects is tight and effective is in your best interest. That process — making sure your team's communications aren't erratic — is most commonly referred to as implementing consistent sales messaging. Keep it customer-centric and accessible.

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Mike Kunkle

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

I am exceptionally pleased and excited to announce that Felix Krueger of FFWD and I launched The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement Learning Experience on November 25, 2022. Access to a Growing Library of 4+ Hours of Video Content , teaching the Building Blocks of Sales Enablement framework.

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DemandFarm

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Behind every high-performing sales team is a manager who doesnt just oversee but inspires, strategizes, and drives impactful results. Sales management today demands more than ever beforeits a delicate balance of leadership, technology, and insight. What sets exceptional sales managers apart?

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Effective sales coaching can have a huge impact on your business. The biggest benefit of sales coaching is its contribution to revenue. Research shows that successful sales coaching programs increased average deal size, sales activity, win rates, and new leads by 25%-40%. Focus on specifics.

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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Are you a new sales leader? Then you know the transition from sales professional to sales manager can be tough. Overnight, you’ve gone from someone who was responsible for your own performance to running an entire sales team. There are a lot of new sales manager skills to learn.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Best Sales Blogs: Sales Hacker. Jill Konrath's Fresh Sales Strategies. HubSpot Sales Blog. Sales Solutions Blog. Sales Gravy. Sandler Training Blog. Marc Wayshak's Sales Blog. Sales for Life. LinkedIn Sales Blog. The Sales Blog. The Sales Blog. Sales Benchmark Index.

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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. Therefore, enablement is hard work. See what I did there? This remains true.

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Revenue Storm

JUNE 15, 2021

The sales venue has changed… a lot. In the pre-pandemic environment, selling and sales leadership were comfortable and relatively predictable. As sales leaders quickly adapted their selling approach to virtual, they worked to leverage the technology, but missed several strategic points.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 30, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the Sales Enablement profession has reached a pivotal crossroads. 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.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 10, 2020

I've made this comparison to sales skills before, but for me, it always rings true. After researching how vulnerability can impact sales, I decided to talk to CeCe Aparo , Vice President and GM of Corporate Training at Hoffman , a sales management training organization. One of those skills is vulnerability.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

Sales coaching is all about looking forward and developing your people. High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program. Coaching vs. Managing.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Imagine your sales team performing 19% better month after month. Research from the Sales Executive Council (SEC) examined thousands of salespeople and found receiving quality coaching helped them improve long-term performance by upwards of 19%. In other words, no other productivity investment is nearly as impactful as sales coaching.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As your sales process evolves, it's important to keep your skills relevant and up to date. Plus, it can increase your sales. In a case study by Rain Group , a global sales training organization, they discovered that a client who went through sales training closed 15.2% Attend sales training.

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Sales Readiness Group

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Sales training is proven to help your team close more business deals, stay competitive, avoid discounting, win bigger deals, and boost productivity. A well-designed sales training program gives your team the skills, tools, and techniques they need to become top performers.

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Engage Selling

JULY 19, 2019

I’m currently working on a large project where I work closely with several sales managers. This is because they don’t practice coaching and exhibit leadership—skills that all of these sales managers are … Read More » Unfortunately, I have been disappointed with their managerial qualities.

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