Dale Bierce

When you hire new managers, you're entrusting them with the crucial task of leading, supervising, mentoring, and motivating others. Their effectiveness in these roles significantly impacts your company's success. However, all too often, first-time managers are thrust into their positions without adequate training, leading to poor management practices.

This lack of preparation can result in high turnover rates, workplace stress, and decreased employee productivity.

Try, Need to and Can’t. These are three words that any sales coach worth their salt will not allow to pass during a coaching conversation without probing. Why? Because these words are almost always code for a salesperson doing what salespeople do best, influencing their manager’s and coach’s to let them slide.

As a sales leader, be on the lookout for the words “what if” from your salespeople. It can be a sure sign that the next thing out of their mouth will be head trash. Become an excellent head trash removal sales manager and your team will sell a LOT more, in trying times and in good times.

Some of our sales leaders we work with have shared they’re worried about their team’s selling skills getting rusty as many are having fewer sales conversations during this time. Sometimes, it’s because their salespeople are in business preservation mode, and sometimes it’s because their customers are currently preoccupied and access to them has become a short-term challenge.

If you’re Sandler-trained, chances are, you and your team (and perhaps even your family), already use DISC day-to-day to improve your communication and how you adapt to one another. If your assessments haven’t been reviewed in a while, now might be a important time to review them to remind your team to be mindful of overuse, and also to be on the lookout for customers and family members who are overusing their DISC styles. And remember, one caution, when we adapt away from our natural style(s), it burns a lot of mental calories. Be prepared to be a little mentally worn out from adapting. But if you are worn out, you’ll know you’re doing it right.

If you’re not willing to take a risk, you’re not going to move forward from where you are.

Have you ever shared too much information, too soon?

Have you ever introduced a topic the prospect wasn’t expecting – and stopped a deal in its tracks?

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