What is the most difficult part of coaching your team to get better at sales? 😅

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(And by coaching, I mean handholding & mentoring with care and not just the traditional/usually ineffective stuff like giving access to training videos, gamified leaderboards etc.)

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Option 8: Coaching through the "victim mentality".

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You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.

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From the coachee standpoint, I'll add a point:

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Keep training and coaching relevant is so challenging. The last thing I want to do is train my team on something that is now irrelevant. Our industry moves incredibly quickly so staying up to speed on effective sales strategies is a challenge.

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I think for me, it's overcoming the frustrations of someone not getting it straightaway! When you're experienced it's easy to find something easy because you've done it a thousand times but when you're training someone and they don't get it or can't do it there's a thing inside me going 'come onnnn just do it'

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Avoiding doing all the other shit "senior leadership" wants you to do instead of spending 60-70% of your time with your team. You send up getting stuck playing CRM desk jockey and building decks for internal meetings to report on shit already in the CRM

punnirno1

What is the most difficult part of coaching your team to get better at sales? 😅

Choose what you find most difficult while coaching a sales team

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punnirno1

What is the most difficult part of coaching your team to get better at sales? 😅

Choose what you find most difficult while coaching a sales team

9 comments

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