Master today’s breakthrough strategy for developing and sustaining high-performance sales teams! Long-time sales team leader Max Cates shows how to go far beyond "old school," "command and control" sales management, unleashing the full power and energy of your salespeople through a participatory management approach that works. Drawing on 36+ years of sales and sales management experience, Cates presents proven tactics for: Developing your own mental toughness, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, and promotability Becoming a true servant leader in sales: providing the right structure, challenges, respect, involvement, and support Hiring more effective and productive salespeople – including expert tips for interviewing, recruiting, reading body language, using data, and choosing amongst candidates Building winning teams that meet sales objectives and delight customers Empowering sales reps and teams in decision-making that increases sales productivity Measuring individual and team performance towards objectives Keeping people on target without micro-managing them Promoting team growth and continual improvement Leveraging Six Sigma and the Deming Cycle to sustain success, morale, and performance And much more Seven Steps to Success for Sales Managers presents proven sales management tactics in a "bulletized" format that’s easy to read – and just as easy to use. Cates combines decades of in-the-trenches experience with cutting-edge research on the latest sales trends and tactics. Whether you’re a working sales manager, VP of sales, account team leader, executive MBA program participant, or aspiring sales manager, this guide will help you build an outstanding team, empower it, and lead it to sustained success.

Master today's breakthrough strategy for developing and sustaining high-performance sales teams! Long-time sales team leader Max Cates shows how to go far beyond "old school," "command and control" sales management, unleashing the full power and energy of your salespeople through a participatory management approach that works. Drawing on 36+ years of sales and sales management experience, Cates presents proven tactics for: Developing your own mental toughness, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, and promotability Becoming a true servant leader in sales: providing the right structure, challenges, respect, involvement, and support Hiring more effective and productive salespeople - including expert tips for interviewing, recruiting, reading body language, using data, and choosing amongst candidates Building winning teams that meet sales objectives and delight customers Empowering sales reps and teams in decision-making that increases sales productivity Measuring individual and team performance towards objectives Keeping people on target without micro-managing them Promoting team growth and continual improvement Leveraging Six Sigma and the Deming Cycle to sustain success, morale, and performance And much more Seven Steps to Success for Sales Managers presents proven sales management tactics in a "bulletized" format that's easy to read - and just as easy to use. Cates combines decades of in-the-trenches experience with cutting-edge research on the latest sales trends and tactics. Whether you're a working sales manager, VP of sales, account team leader, executive MBA program participant, or aspiring sales manager, this guide will help you build an outstanding team, empower it, and lead it to sustained success.

There are hundreds of books out there on sales, but 7 Secrets to Successful Sales Management is one of the few aimed directly at the most critical person in the sales organization: the sales manager. A practical, hands-on guide, the book presents an integrated approach to sales management and combines the author's experience with innovative strategies for motivating your sales force, recruiting quality sales people, and training new employees. Written by a grizzled veteran, the book reflects his success and allows you to learn from his mistakes. As Jack Wilner is fond of saying, "Nothing in this book is theoretical. It's all based on one thing and one thing only-what works!"

The 13 Steps to Sales Success - 13 concise steps in one handy book to help you achieve your goals in a sales career including:Step One - A career in sales, types of sales roles.Step Two - First steps, getting the role, preparation, interviews.Step Three - The right mind-set, values, beliefs, goals.Step Four - Organizational skills, research, planning.Step Five - Product knowledge, features versus benefits.Step Six - The story of a successful sales call.Step Seven - Prologue to a successful sales call.Step Eight - Sales call introduction.Step Nine - What's the story, listening and questioning.Step Ten - A happy ending, closing the call.Step Eleven - The follow-up.Step Twelve - Presentations/workshops.Step Thirteen - The way forward.The 13 Steps enables you to utilize the simple sales techniques to boost you career to the next level, whether you are starting out in Sales or it has been your chosen career for some time.

The Successful Sales Manager: A Sales Manager’s Handbook for Building Great Sales Performance is a new book published by industry veteran Dustin W Ruge. In the book, Dustin covers the critical aspects as to why so many sales organizations fail and how to successfully move from bad sales management performance to great sales leaders and results. Website: http://www.thesuccessfulsalesmanager.com Book Endorsements From Sales Industry Leaders: “The Successful Sales Manager is a hands-on, practical and highly useful guide that any sales manager should keep as an instant go-to resource close to their desk. I wish I had a copy of this book when I started my business; it would have saved me a lot of time building a high performance team.” -- Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder and CEO of Selling Power Magazine "Effective sales managers are difficult to find. That's because even though it could mean the difference between success and failure, sales management is one of the least taught skill sets in business today. Congratulations Dustin for capturing the keys to this otherwise mysterious discipline in your book, The Successful Sales Manager. Frankly, everyone should have a copy of this book including salespeople who are managing a territory and will someday be promoted into this role." --Thomas A. Freese, Author: Secrets of Question Based Selling “A must read for anyone who wants a successful career in sales management. The Successful Sales Manager cuts straight to the chase on what you need to do to get the most out of your sales teams.” -- Joe Girard, Worlds Greatest Retail Salesman, attested by The Guinness Book of World Records! www.joegirard.com “So many people fail to become great sales managers. Reading the tips and advice in this book can help anyone overcome that obstacle and succeed in sales.” -- Michael LeBoeuf, Author of How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life

The sales force is a company's main engine for driving revenue, one that often requires change to stay competitive and achieve desired results. To improve sales performance, many organizations seek out a 'Silver Bullet'. Transformation is not a one-time, check-the-box event, but a rigorous, ongoing process. Unfortunately, there is no one-off solution to the hard work of transformation. There is, however, a methodology derived from the authors' combined decades of work and their qualitative and quantitative research on sales force transformation. This book provides a practical approach to effect significant, measurable and sustainable transformation in your sales organization. 7 Steps to Sales Force Transformation will help readers determine if their sales organizations need a transformation and if so, how to assess their sales organization's readiness through the analysis of six 'levers' of successful sales transformations. It also guides readers through a series of tasks, analyses, and decisions that will lead to a successful transformation. In particular, the authors will show you how to clarify your sales transformation vision and sell it to upper management, detail methods on how to deploy your vision, offer advice on how to sustain transformation through leadership and communication, and outline current trends that will impact future sales transformation. This book is targeted at anyone who has control over a sales organization or who wants to transform a sales team, including sales managers, sales executives, CEOs, COOs, and others who advise or influence those stakeholders, such as associates at consulting and private equity firms. Through original quantitative research, the authors' own experiences transforming sales organizations, and the lessons learned by a host of sales professionals they interviewed, you will understand how to transform and modernize your sales force to achieve your desired sales results and provide your customers with better service and value.