Peri Shawn, author of Sell More With Sales Coaching: Practical Solutions for Your Everyday Sales Challenges
Peri Shawn and Bill Ringle discuss common challenges and straightforward solutions to sales performance problems for small business leaders and sales managers in particular.
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Top 3 Take-Aways from this Interview
The salesperson is most likely to listen and change their behaviors if they feel they have been part of the process, not just told what to do.Determining your effectiveness as a coach shows in how well your sales team's skills improve as a result of your coaching.Coaching sales performance is most effective when it is based on specific, behavioral and observable performance.
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Reframe the discussion around the shared interests that are foundational to working together. #MQ4B Ep294 with Peri Shawn (@PeriShawn), author of Sell More With Sales Coaching: Practical Solutions for Your Everyday Sales Challenges...