Special Report

Systemizing Sales Microcoaching

Through four years of testing and development, SalesFuel created a sales microcoaching platform, SalesFuel CoachFeed. It contains four essential elements for upskilling your sales reps.

How Microcoaching Can Take Your Sales Team to the Next Level

Sales managers can take heart in a Sales Management Association study that shows effective sales coaching leads to an increase of up to 23% in rep performance. One would assume with an impact like that, sales managers would commit a significant amount of time to coaching. However, the same study reveals that 76% of sales managers spend too little time coaching. The demands of the job — being constantly pulled into meetings, putting out fires and feeling pressured to meet the short-term quota — make coaching less of a priority.

Don’t Lose Deals Due to a Clunky Digital Buying Experience

Embracing digital buying processes —  from the research phase to post-sales — is the only way to keep up with customers’ evolving expectations, says Marie Hattar, CMO at Keysight Technologies. She offers these tips for improving the B2B digital buying experience.

Virtual Selling Is Now Simply Selling

More than a year of working from home has shown that online video meetings and remote demonstrations work just fine most of the time for business-to-business sales. Many customers, it turns out, actually prefer the virtual approach.

Make a Return to the Office Easier for Everyone

Steps leaders can take to make employees feel supported and safe ahead of an eventual return to the workplace.

Worker Engagement Rollercoasters Through the Pandemic

According to Gallup, worker engagement ping-ponged in 2020. It's important for managers to be aware of some of the facts about worker engagement.

Why 2021 Requires a New Type of Sales Manager

The pandemic made existing sales productivity challenges more pronounced and created new ones. As leaders, we need to find ways to shift our operating philosophy for this new age of sales.

3 Steps for Maintaining a Positive Culture in a Remote World

Some are predicting a mass job search exodus once the pandemic has passed. Here are three important changes you can make to align workers around a common purpose and increase your culture, flexibility and openness in the workplace.

Incentive Travel Experiences Are Too Treasured to Abandon

While it has widely been predicted that business travel will never return to pre-COVID levels, incentive travel — the concept of bringing groups of high-performers together to celebrate successes — could be a motivation tool that’s too effective to abandon.

How the Pandemic Year Changed Employee Recognition

Like everything else in the pandemic year, workplace recognition and managing teams for improved performance have been disrupted. In a virtual world, it’s harder to gauge team members’ needs, celebrate successes and make employees feel valued.

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