sales coaching
Your Customers Aren’t Buying Your Product, So Why Do You Keep Selling It?
I’ve been sitting in a lot of deal reviews recently. The clients are in varied businesses, ranging from software technologies, medical devices, capital equipment, electronic components, financial services, and so forth.
Don’t be a sales TERMINATOR – qualify rather than judge your prospects
Boxers can lose a fight before they even get in the ring. So can salespeople. A sale can be lost before you even step into the selling ring. It all starts with your perception of your prospects.
The coaching conversation managers must have to ensure salespeople achieve their goals
Sales quotas are set, but is there alignment, buy-in, commitment and a bulletproof strategy to achieve them? Are you certain your sales team has the skills, messaging, fearless attitude, self-accountability, time management strategy, and structure to thrive? An are they excited about what they can achieve this year?
Coaching the uncoachable
Recently, I had the honor of participating in a webcast on coaching, with Lori Richardson, Jason Jordan, and Mike Kunkle. A question that rarely comes up was, “What do you do if a person is uncoachable?”
More coaching, even poor coaching, is better than none
I cannot stress enough the importance of sales manager coaching and doing it a bunch. I have stats to back me up. Check out this data curated by Objective Management Group on about 5,500 managers and their teams.
Why won't your salespeople do what they know to do?
Sometimes, poor sales performance is due to a lack of skills or knowledge. But sometimes, salespeople know what to do, they know how to do it, and they even know why they should do it… and they still don’t do it, at least not consistently.
