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Category Archives: Coaching

The Sales Blog > Coaching

What Business Acumen do Sales People Need?

June 6, 2013 – 1:57 pm

When people talk about Business Acumen for sales people they tend to cover a wide range of skills, knowledge and behaviours that they would like sales people to demonstrate in front of a customer. Here are some of the areas are commonly bracketed under Business Acumen: Accounts and financial statements Calling high at the C-suite, […]

By John | Also posted in Customer Focus, Executive Selling, Training | Tagged business drivers, business issues, buying, calling high, gathering information, sales competencies | Comments (0)

Coaching – the Sales Manager’s most important tool

February 14, 2012 – 8:45 pm

“Catch a man a fish, feed him for a day.  Teach him how to fish and feed him for life”  – unknown. Of all the tools available to a sales manager to drive the performance of individuals in their team, coaching has been shown to be the most important in terms of achieving business results.  […]

By John | Also posted in Sales Management | Tagged Coaching, sales competencies, sales managers | Comments (0)

The Art of Sales

June 8, 2010 – 12:40 pm

To me, the key skill of a sales person is questioning, being able to get the customer to give you all the information you require to enable you to deliver the order-winning proposal. After all, selling is a game and the gaining of information like searching for all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle to […]

By John | Also posted in Customer Focus, Training | Tagged empathy, gathering information, question checklist, sales competencies, sales person | Comments (0)

Sales Energizer – SMARTER Questions

June 6, 2010 – 5:09 pm

As I wrote the last two posts on SMARTER questions, I thought of an exercise I do in workshops that would make a great energizer for a sales meeting. Basically, the sales manager starts the session with a 10 minute discussion on the value of SMARTER questions using the information in the posts and on […]

By John | Also posted in Sales Management, Training | Tagged question checklist, questions, team energizers | Comments (0)

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