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16-Step Sales Management Process

Spotio

Looking to improve your sales management process? Sales management describes the full spectrum of activities that help companies maximize the value of their sales team. Sales management organizes these activities into four main buckets; sales strategy, sales operations, sales analysis, and sales training. .

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Should Sales Managers Sell?

The Brooks Group

Should your sales managers be responsible for meeting their own individual quota? Or is the “Selling Sales Manager” function flawed? If you look towards the sports world, however, you’ll see that few teams use “player-managers.” Reason 2: It Sacrifices the Quantity and Quality of Sales Coaching.

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Should Your Sales Managers Be Selling?

The Brooks Group

Should your sales managers be responsible for meeting their own individual quota? Or is the “Selling Sales Manager” function flawed? If you look towards the sports world, however, you’ll see that few teams use “player-managers.” Reason 2: It Sacrifices the Quantity and Quality of Sales Coaching.

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Where Should Sales Managers Spend Their Time Coaching?

The Brooks Group

Time management is one of the most important priorities for a sales manager. The best sales managers know they need to be dedicating a significant amount of their time each week coaching their salespeople—but which group will bring in the best return on coaching investment? Finding and Keeping Top Sales Talent.

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The Top 10 Things a Sales Rep Should Never Say to a Sales Manager

The Brooks Group

My brother and I were chatting in the Atlanta airport on our way to a meeting in Phoenix a few weeks ago and I jokingly asked him, “What are the top 10 things a sales rep should never say to a sales manager?” The Top 10 Things a Sales Rep Should Never Say to a Sales Manager. . Wait until next month.

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The 12 Universal Sales Management Truths

The Brooks Group

The 12 Universal Sales Management Truths were developed by the late Bill Brooks, founder of our company and my father. He was a student of his craft and distilled his experience of the way the most successful sales coaches grew top-performing sales teams. and developed the 12 Universal Sales Management Truths.

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Sales Managers Aren’t Coaching? Here’s Why.

The Brooks Group

Today’s sales managers need to lead and coach their sales force instead of managing and directing the team. Unfortunately, when sales managers aren't coaching - because they don't know how - they tend to get caught up with blaming their reps for failures on the part of the sales team instead of looking at themselves.