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Every day, expert consultants like Mike Weinberg are called on by companies large and small to figure out why their sales departments are falling short. Is it lazy and ineffective salespeople? Is it outdated methods of client building? Why are these team members not producing as they should? And more often than not, the answers are not what they expected the issue lies not with the sales team . . . but with how it is being led.In Sales Management. Simplified. Weinberg tells it straight, calling out the problems plaguing sales forces and the costly mistakes made by even the best-intentioned sales managers. In most organizations he has been hired as a consultant, he has found that through their attitude and actions, senior executives and sales managers have unknowingly been undermining the performances of their employees. But the good news is, that with the right guidance, results can be transformed. In this invaluable resource, Weinberg teaches managers how to• Implement a simple framework for sales leadership• Foster a healthy, high-performance sales culture• Conduct productive meetings• Put the right people in the right roles• Retain top producers and remediate underperformers• Point salespeople at the proper targets• And much moreBlending blunt, practical advice with funny stories from the field, Sales Management. Simplified. delivers the tools every sales manager needs to succeed. The solution starts with you!
Read Online Sales Management Simplified The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team eBook Mike Weinberg
"I have a problem. I buy all the latest sales books. I read them, make a few notes and move on to the next. I have a sales library any sales pro would be proud of but the challenge is actually acting on the wise words written by these sales experts. (I am the same with cook books but that is another story!)
This year I took action. I decided I would only read 2 sales books and put their words into action. Mike Weinberg's Sales Management Simplified is one of the books I settled on.
I have been in sales for over 20 years and managing sales teams for over 10. Mike's book was a wake up call, I had been coasting! My numbers were okay but I knew I could deliver more. I read Sales Management Simplified and it was the kick up the backside I needed. I had got sloppy with regular 1:1's, was going through the motions with my team meetings. Not any more.
I read Mr Weinberg's book every month, I even have it on Audible, his words inspired me to re-evaluate the way I was operating as a Sales Manager. No more coasting.
Now our 1:1s happen every week, with talking points submitted by the sales person a few days before. Same with team meetings, they are interactive, fun and we learn together. I am in the field more and our 'ride-alongs' are much more structured and have become real occasions for development and learning.
I manage remote sales teams so I need to be on the top of my sales game if I expect my team to deliver. I need to work smarter to inspire my sales force as they all sell from home offices and not on a bustling sales floor.
I have no connection with Mike so believe me when I say that his book has helped me a) exceed tough team targets, b) develop my sales people c) given me fire in my belly and be proud to be a Sales Manager again.
Let's be honest being a sales manager can be a lonely job, managing sales people and our superiors can be a tough job. Do yourself a favor, buy this book, read it, re-read it and act on it. Having Mike Weinberg in your corner will seriously improve your team results and get you passionate about the craft of sales management."
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Sales Management Simplified The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team eBook Mike Weinberg Reviews :
Sales Management Simplified The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team eBook Mike Weinberg Reviews
- First my summary, then a few comments about the book
1. Build a high-performance culture with
a. Strong sense of purpose
b. Accountability for results relative to goals
c. Variable compensation that is truly earned
d. Energy/Celebration
e. Peer pressure and direct feedback
2. Manage your talent (4Rs)
a. Right people in the right roles Specialize your team into dedicated hunters, farmers (account managers), and sales managers
b. Retain top producers training, tools, and recognition
c. Remediate or replace underperformers
d. Recruit by spending dedicated time on referrals and asking for specific during interviews, including (i) details of a successful past deal & (ii) how they plan to approach the job
3. Lead productive sales team meetings covering
a. Sales results & outstanding individual/team performance
b. Success stories
c. Best practices
d. Deal strategy brainstorming
e. Training (esp. with role play)
f. Business plan reviews covering goals, strategies, proposed actions, expected obstacles, and professional development
g. At the conclusion, have people share their biggest take-away
4. Coach and mentor salespeople by
a. Conducting regular, results focused 11 meetings by examining (IN ORDER!)
i. Results relative to quota
ii. Pipeline (movement of existing opportunities; new opportunities added)
iii. Activity
b. Removing real obstacles (though beware of excuses)
c. Spending time in the field (or in side-by-sides for inside sales) covering
i. Pre-call planning (names, personalities, & meeting expectations of prospects; call flow; expected challenges; primary meeting goal)
ii. Post-call review, letting the salesperson share her take first
iii. Generally getting to know salespeople’s motivations
5. Set the standard for effective sales calls. For example
a. Share the agenda and get buy-in
b. Add value every time as a customer-issue-focused problem-solver
c. Probe and listen (instead of leading with talking about the product) to determine if prospects are qualified and to write better proposals
d. Hold a conversation rather than give a presentation
e. Crisply articulate the “sales story†in a way that is succinct, compelling, and customer-issue focused
f. Lead the customer rather than letting the customer lead you
6. Additional recommendations
a. Regularly assess territory strategy to ensure salespeople are targeting the accounts the highest-potential accounts. They should have enough accounts to work, but not too many to adequately work.
b. Avoid negativity
c. Be selfishly productive, proactivity calendaring all priority activities and saying no to reactive, non-results-oriented tasks & meetings
d. Be careful not to avoid your high performers or focus too much on underperformers
e. Demand (from finance/operations) accurate, timely, usable reports to monitor sales results and pipeline
Review comment While the book has great content, it takes work to extract it since (a) the entire first half of the book is a long rant (b) the rant continues at times in the second half (c) there is a decent amount of repetition (d) the author is, at times, overly self-promotional (e) the organizing structure (culture, talent management, and process) is somewhat loose and intertwined with a second framework (11s, team meetings, and field work). - I have a problem. I buy all the latest sales books. I read them, make a few notes and move on to the next. I have a sales library any sales pro would be proud of but the challenge is actually acting on the wise words written by these sales experts. (I am the same with cook books but that is another story!)
This year I took action. I decided I would only read 2 sales books and put their words into action. Mike Weinberg's Sales Management Simplified is one of the books I settled on.
I have been in sales for over 20 years and managing sales teams for over 10. Mike's book was a wake up call, I had been coasting! My numbers were okay but I knew I could deliver more. I read Sales Management Simplified and it was the kick up the backside I needed. I had got sloppy with regular 11's, was going through the motions with my team meetings. Not any more.
I read Mr Weinberg's book every month, I even have it on Audible, his words inspired me to re-evaluate the way I was operating as a Sales Manager. No more coasting.
Now our 11s happen every week, with talking points submitted by the sales person a few days before. Same with team meetings, they are interactive, fun and we learn together. I am in the field more and our 'ride-alongs' are much more structured and have become real occasions for development and learning.
I manage remote sales teams so I need to be on the top of my sales game if I expect my team to deliver. I need to work smarter to inspire my sales force as they all sell from home offices and not on a bustling sales floor.
I have no connection with Mike so believe me when I say that his book has helped me a) exceed tough team targets, b) develop my sales people c) given me fire in my belly and be proud to be a Sales Manager again.
Let's be honest being a sales manager can be a lonely job, managing sales people and our superiors can be a tough job. Do yourself a favor, buy this book, read it, re-read it and act on it. Having Mike Weinberg in your corner will seriously improve your team results and get you passionate about the craft of sales management. - If you’re a sales manager, or if you work for a sales manager, or if a sales manager reports to you, or if you’re the manager of operations or finance or marketing or customer service or R&D or human resources at a company that has a sales manager, please buy this book, read it right away, and start handing out copies to everyone in your company who ever expresses an opinion about the performance of the sales team.
It’s directed to the sales manager, but that guy or gal lives inside a culture with a lot of other culprits as well, so pass it around.
I’m not usually a fan of books that spend a lot of time documenting the problem. Too often they’re collections of cheap shots by someone who just wants to show off. But this is an exquisitely pointed but good-natured collection of stories about how poor sales management causes trouble for your company, organized into 16 sales management flaws and the specific kinds of trouble that they cause.
Honestly, if you only read Part One, “Blunt Truth from the Front Lines,†and swear out loud “I’ll never do THAT again!†after each chapter, you’d make great progress. But to be safe, I recommend you go ahead with Part Two, which is all the practical help you'll ever need.
Mike has a great voice—rich experience and insight delivered with the punch of a stand-up comic. You can’t make this up. And he didn’t. It’s all real, all the way through.
