Make sales coaching a daily priority for top-of-game staff performanceThose who do it right prove time and time again that sales coaching works. If you’re one of the many managers yet to reap the benefits of sales coaching, the solution is in your hands. Based on one of today’s most popular sales training programs Crushing Quota breaks the process down into manageable components, so you can make sales coaching a realistic, meaningful part of your staff’s job. It all comes down to three critical points that the vast majority of sales managers today are missing:•Provide clear direction for sellers on how to get to quota—for all sales roles•Ensure effective execution by coaching the right things, in the right measure, executed the right way •Assess seller performance and make timely course correctionsIt’s all about helping your people make the best use of their time and effort. That’s what coaches do. When a salesperson is skilled at making important decisions about which priorities to pursue and which ones to ignore to—results follow. It’s that simple. Crushing Quota teaches you how to develop the best coaching approach for your teams and their individual sellers using powerful research-based best practices. This is the definitive guide to making sales coaching work for any sales team in any industry.

Many companies want to make their sales agile. Some of them have tried to set up agile sales organizations, but such top-down approaches and big-bang rollouts seldom seem to work. This book shows how the elements of the leading agile framework “Scrum” should be applied to install agility in the salesforce, improve sales performance, and resolve typical performance issues in sales organizations. It contains concrete guidelines, real-world examples, and useful tools to create the necessary change step by step and built to last.

Develop the mental agility and razor-sharp decision making of today’s most successful salespeople The world of sales has become less predictable and more competitive in recent years. Buying decisions are more complex, differentiation between suppliers is difficult to discern, and high-quality information is readily available. The salespeople who excel are agile―choosing a path based on the buying situations they face and continually re-assessing those choices. In The Sales Agility Code, leaders at industry-leading sales training and development firm VantagePoint Performance help you learn and replicate what the highest-performing salespeople do to succeed in an unpredictable and ever-changing market. This groundbreaking, research-driven guide teaches you how to: Shift to a buyer-focus perspective and assess customer situations from multiple perspectives Make sense of buyers’ situations by considering and weighing all available data and your own insights Choose a sales approach that aligns with the customer situation with your prioritized sales objective Execute a variety of sales tactics that will move the sales opportunity forward Make in-the-moment adjustments as the buyer’s situation evolves With The Sales Agility Code, you have everything you need to understand the buyer, the buying situation, and the buyer’s needs so you can consciously choose the best approach for each stage in each deal―which will invariably result in more sales.