The Sales Manager's Guide to Greatness: Ten Essential Strategies for Leading Your Team to the Top

2018 Axiom Business Book Award Winner, Silver Medal Straightforward advice for taking your sales team to the next level! ​If your sales team isn't producing the results expected, the pressure is on you to fix the situation fast. One option is to replace salespeople. A better option is for you to optimize your performance as a sales leader. In The Sales Manager's Guide to Greatness, sales management consultant Kevin F. Davis offers 10 proven and distinctly practical strategies, skills, and tools for overcoming the most challenging obstacles sales managers face and moving your team ahead of the pack. This book will help you: Learn the 6 sales rep instincts that can cripple your management effectiveness, and replace these instincts with a more powerful leadership mindset - true sales leadership begins with improving the leader withinStop getting bogged down by distractions, become more proactive, and find more time to coach, lead, and inspire your salespeopleGet every salesperson on your team to be more accountable and driven to achieve breakthrough sales resultsMaster the 7 keys to hiring great salespeopleCreate a more customer-driven sales team by blending the buyer's journey into your sales processSpeed up the improvement of your team by mastering the 7 keys to achieving better coaching outcomesExcel at the most challenging coaching conversation you face - how to solve a sales performance problem that is caused by a rep's lousy attitudeAttain higher win-rates by intervening as a coach at the most critical stages of a buying cycle, quickly identify opportunities at risk, and coach more deals to the closeDiscover why so many salespeople fail at sales forecasting and how to impress your company's upper management by submitting more accurate forecastsAnd much more...You can apply the strategies outlined in this book immediately to take control of your time and priorities as a sales manager, become more strategic, deliver high-performance coaching that grows revenues, and ultimately drive your team to greatness.