In today’s business world, important buying decisions are rarely made by an individual. Buying teams are the rule rather than the exception, and salespeople need to know how to sell to and influence multiple people, with multiple priorities, who have to make a single decision — whether to buy from you, someone else, or not at all.

Forget about the Red Coats, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming! Yes, consultative sales reps will be around for long-time, but only those who can shift their approach to outcome selling.

This session is geared specifically toward helping sales managers and sales professionals create more effective and more persuasive B2B sales presentations.  

Nearly half of all sales executives in the U.S. have voluntarily left a company because of their direct managers. In many ways, managers are as important as the C-level in influencing a company’s culture. Yet many of today’s managers have had little management training and even less development, emotional intelligence and insight into the psyche of their employees.

Transform Your Sales & Marketing Enablement at the Speed of Business: Lessons from Microsoft’s Leading-Edge "Corporate MOOCs"   The challenge facing most organizations: transforming at scale and at speed. The answer for Microsoft was leading-edge "Corporate MOOCs" which they have continually innovated in their quest to transform to a mobile-first cloud-first company at 21st century speed.

Sales manager coaching has the single biggest impact on salesperson effectiveness. Unfortunately, sales manager coaching is at an all-time low, resulting in as much as 85% of sales skills never being used to drive sales performance. In our research and experience, we have found three keys to getting the most from your sales manager coaching efforts: Motivation, Skills, and Support. This webinar will describe the three keys and how to ensure successful coaching in your organization.

Sales managers have a big job but they need to remember that reps do the heavy lifting. The key is to create an environment where the reps are prone to success. In this webinar, you will learn about three critical (and low-budget or no-budget) tools to help your reps become the best they can be. By helping them set goals, stay focused on the most important aspects of the job and get emotionally engaged, you will ensure your own success as a sales leader.

The failure of sales training to produce results is practically legendary. The ability to change behavior is a well-documented challenge for one person, let alone an entire sales force.  So are we forced to accept the fate of low ROI from training or poor sales methodology adoption? 

Excellence in team selling is critical to success for commercial selling organizations today. Customers bring more stakeholders to the table and expect to meet more than the salesperson before making a commitment.  To manage these moments effectively, salespeople need to ensure all players are operating at peak performance -- individually and as a unit -- in those high-stakes meetings.

It is an oddity of behavioral psychology that it’s a smart business strategy to let sales reps self-select some of their goals, yet not so smart to let them determine whether they receive cash or non-cash rewards for reaching those goals. Simply put, we don’t always understand what motivates us most effectively.

Are you tired of deals that stall indefinitely or end in No Decision after months of time and energy have been poured into the deal? Would you like to (or get your sales force to) stop doing what they think is working and do just what your buyers and decision makers care about?

Do these issues sound familiar?  Deals stall or go dark and you can’t seem to revive them Decision makers are introduced mid-deal and it changes everything After months of effort, your clients decide to address their issues in-house with a DIY solution You work primarily with mid-level decision makers who struggle to get their initiatives funded  You struggle with providing accurate pipeline forecasts

Studies show incentive programs can significantly improve performance. But to maximize results, it’s important to understand the journey your participants will take from the time they first hear about the program to the day they receive their awards. 

Digital Transformation is forcing all businesses to re-examine their business models, partnerships and how they sell. Frontline sales managers have to coach their resources to be sharper & more ready for all manner of customer conversations and to perform better than ever before because there is new competition around every corner.

As the tides of business change, preparing your salespeople for anything that comes their way takes more than just training - it takes readiness. For sales enablement, this involves all strategic activities designed to prepare sellers to have meaningful buyer interactions (from new hire onboarding to guidance through business transformations).

Seven analyst firms, the Association for Talent Development, and the Sales Enablement Society have all defined "sales enablement" - each slightly differently. In dozens of organizations, the sales enablement function is run differently, with a different focus, responsibilities, and initiatives.

Nearly 60% of companies face leadership talent shortage which impedes their performance and over 50% of first time managers FAIL.  There is a very big difference between a leader and a good leader.  There is a HUGE difference between a good leader and a great leader.  Sales organizations need to learn that what makes a successful individual sales professional doesn’t make a successful sales manager. No matter what, leadership involves preparing, improving, and growing your skills continuously.   What worked leading your team, group, department, company or sales cycle this year could very well be completely ineffective next. 

You’ve mastered marketing campaigns, but there’s more to email, events and digital marketing if you want to drive sales qualified leads. It’s time to elevate your marketing and sales approaches to convert those marketing qualified leads into the sales pipeline. 

Sales manager leadership has the single biggest impact on salesperson performance, as long as it is the right type of leadership. Sitting down with your salespeople every month to review sales results and revenue is like only looking out the rearview mirror when driving. Effective sales leadership is not just looking at where your salespeople have been but where they are going.  

If it is true that many organizations spend $10 - $12 thousand on hiring individuals and only $2 thousand per year on sales training, that means that what organizations do spend on sales training needs to count. Making sales training and enablement count requires program design that aligns with the needs of the business. 

Modern, enterprise B2B buyers have no tolerance for "Jedi mind tricks."  And as professional, consultative sellers, we shouldn’t want to foster an environment where we "overcome" our buyers’ "objections." Could anything be less consultative and more combative?

Distribution channel partners have their own priorities. Getting their time and attention can be an enormous challenge. But if your success depends on distributors, dealers, agents or retailers selling your products, engaging these channel partners is mission critical.

You may be familiar with IQ, which measures your cognitive intelligence.  But has anyone ask you about EQ or Emotional quotient? What is EQ? Emotional intelligence is your awareness regarding your actions and feeling, including how they affect the people around you. Successful sales professionals have a VERY HIGH EQ. They understand how to work with people and work within situations.

If sales managers, who have underperforming teams, should have teams with a minimum of 70% of their team hitting the goals, anything less is not acceptable. An overall goal does not dictate that a team's performance is improving. This webcast will teach three specific sales coaching strategies for underperforming teams.