For a long time in my career I gravitated towards joining teams where the manager was my inspiration (and played roal of coach) and my growth heavily dependent on bi-directional value out of my relationship with manager. And then came stage in career, where It started getting harder to find managers like that (at later stage in career as an IC, the managers hire you because they want to learn from you). This is all good, but I realised I missed those coaching conversations. I started relying on industry friends/peers to bounce-off ideas but that hasn't worked that well (partly because people have experience in industry but not necessarily the coaching skills)
Have you ever paid for a professional sales coach? and at what point in career? How did you get the best outcome from the engagement?
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