Category Archives: Sales Coaching
Get Out of the Field and Get Into Coaching
This post originally appeared here on the Training Industry blog. Most sales managers understand that the most important and effective activity they can do to improve performance is coach their sales reps. But many will also admit they don’t have enough time to coach as much or as often as they know they should. So, […]
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How L&D Can Positively Impact Sales Results
This post originally appeared here in the Training Industry blog. Where can L&D leaders make a huge impact on their company’s financial results? A survey Vantage Point Performance conducted with the Sales Management Association asked organizations to select the top sales management priority from a list of 17 topics. The winner? Coaching sales reps. Research […]
Read More2017 Sales Quotas – How to Have One Heck of a Year!
As a sales leader, you naturally want to get the most out of 2017 and have a good year. If you’re unsure of your path to action, I’d like offer you a chance to do something radically different in 2017, by suggesting you follow these steps. First, identify company strategies currently yielding only marginal improvements, […]
Read More3 Reasons Sales Managers Fail to Coach
When it comes to sales managers coaching their sellers, there is a significant gap between what companies intend to do and what they end up doing. Here’s a look at what’s going on and how to make your training dollars work as you intend. Coaching is one of the most important activities—if not the most […]
Read MoreWhat Kind of Training do Sales Managers Really Need?
This post originally appeared here in the Training Industry blog. I’m frequently asked, “What exactly is coaching?” and, “Why should I care if I’m a sales manager?” Unfortunately, there is no consensus on a definition. But it behooves us to work our way towards one. If you’re a sales manager, particularly a new one, you […]
Read MoreWhy Your New Sales Technology Tools Won’t Solve Your Sales Problem
This post originally appeared here in the Selling Power blog. All sales organizations have problems. Sales technologies or tools solve problems. Logic would seem to tell us that all we need to do is match a technology to a problem and voilà – problem solved! Yet, as every sales leader knows, this is not how […]
Read MoreHow One Conversation Elevates Sales Results
What separates a great manager from a mediocre one? While there are lots of little actions that divide wheat from chaff, there is one activity that elevates a manager’s performance to the top tier: time spent with reps in meaningful pipeline discussions. Vantage Point conducted research into the practices of high-performing sales teams over the […]
Read MoreThe Role of Sales Leadership in Driving Change on the Front Line
This post originally appeared here in the Training Industry blog. It is common knowledge that front-line sales managers are the key to creating change in the behavior of sales people. It makes perfect sense that changes in sales manager practices lead to desired changes in salesperson practices; however, there are other powerful forces at play […]
Read MoreThe Anatomy of an Effecive Sales Coaching Conversation
This post originally appeared here in the Training Industry blog. Training sales managers to coach is a hot topic—and for good reason. According to the Sales Executive Council, average sales performance is 19 percent higher for teams whose sales managers are deemed effective coaches than for teams whose managers are rated as ineffective. That’s a […]
Read More3 Critical Questions Every Sales Manager Must Answer
I have a quick question for you… How confident are you that you will hit your revenue target by the end of the year? 100%? 50%? 0%? When I ask this question of sales leaders, the answers I receive tend to fall somewhere in between 100% and 0%. Obviously, certain failure is not a common […]
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