Summary Syndigo needed to bring a unified approach to disparate sales teams on how to manage and sell to achieve its growth goals CT Connect helped to embed Field Management and Value Selling principles by guiding managers who, where and how to coach Syndigo saw that the more coaching new hires received, the better their…
Summary Pure Storage needed to solve for better participation rates, especially among 1st year reps, if the company was to continue its growth trajectory CommercialTribe helped guide who, where and how District Managers and Sales Engineering Managers coached to improve the % of reps to goal Across a global rollout and thousands of coaching sessions,…
Having been a frontline sales manager at Gartner years ago, this article is written to all of those currently in the role and hopefully reflects the sentiment and experience from all 2nd, 3rd, and beyond-line managers. Let me get right to the point, while most frontline sales managers may academically know the difference between…
Fundamental #5 – Align and Contribute to Company Goals, is part of our series, The Making of a Highly Effective Sales Manager. I’m stepping through each of the 5 Fundamentals of a Highly Effective Sales Manager, offering depth around what each means to me. Catch up on posts 1, 2, 3 and 4. A…
Fundamental #4 – Reconciles Prior Commits, Tracks and Measures Progress, is part of our series, The Making of a Highly Effective Sales Manager. I’m stepping through each of the 5 Fundamentals of a Highly Effective Sales Manager, offering depth around what each means to me. Catch up on posts 1, 2, and 3. As…
Fundamental #3 – Practices Guiding versus Telling, is part of our series, The Making of a Highly Effective Sales Manager. I’m stepping through each of the 5 Fundamentals of a Highly Effective Sales Manager, offering depth around what each means to me. Catch up here and here. Be it a deal or an opinion,…
Fundamental #2 – Understands the key behaviors to successful selling and how to coach others, is part of our series, The Making of a Highly Effective Sales Manager I’m stepping through each of the 5 Fundamentals of a Highly Effective Sales Manager, offering depth around what each means to me. You can catch up…
Fundamental #1 – Build Trust and Teamwork, is part of our series, The Making of a Highly Effective Sales Manager The best avenue toward another person having trust in you is for you to trust them. If you already struggle with trusting others, this will be an exercise that feels more personal than team-oriented. And…
We can probably all agree that a great sales manager is one whose team consistently reaches or exceeds its revenue goals. Conversely, not-so-great managers may rely on their star performers or feel compelled to close business themselves, leading to more inconsistent results. Why do some managers have repeated success at reaching goal, while others repeatedly…
We’ve reached the final post in our series on 2019 CommercialTribe Coach customer QBRs. If you need to catch up, here’s where we’ve been so far: Part 1: Why customers implement Coach across their sales teams Part 2: Results from using Coach for 90 days Based on the assessments managers populated in Coach, we now…