Episode 72 is different. Instead of talking about leading your sales team, Mike challenges listeners with this important personal question:

Who is on YOUR team?

This episode was inspired by several factors, including a personal breakthrough Mike is experiencing in his own life, combined with a well-timed Netflix docuseries episode that perfectly depicts the transformative change you can experience from making the right additions to your personal team.

Who is rooting for you? Who is challenging you? Who are you going to for outside perspective or expert advice? Who is helping ensure that you win…at work, at home, at health, at life? Who is cheering you on? Or confronting you when you play the victim? Who is whispering encouragement in your ear? Or speaking hard, constructive truth (hopefully in love), when you need to hear it?

Take a listen and be challenged to consider who might add to your personal team to help you experience a breakthrough.

Resources Mentioned:

Podcast Episode: Practical Wisdom from a Highly Rated Financial Advisor, Golf Instructor, and Sales Coach to Help You Win Big in 2024!

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This episode is sponsored by Pursuit Sales Solutions. If you looking for help adding A-player talent to your team, contact Mike’s friends at pursuitsalessolutions.com/weinberg

Episode 71 was inspired by a message Mike received from an executive whose sales team was not securing enough meetings with prospective customers. The executive shared two specific frustrations:

• The sales team’s lack of effectiveness at getting prospects to agree to an initial meeting
• The number of prospects cancelling at the last minute or “no-showing” for a meeting they had previously agreed to attend

In this episode, Mike shares his initial response to this request for help and offers up a list of potential causes for ineffective prospecting – ranging from impersonal, automated approaches, to the model being deployed, the focus of the messaging, the DNA of the salespeople, sellers not properly pushing past resistance or overcoming objections, the weightiness/reality of virtual vs. in-person meetings, and more.

Take a listen to see if any of these obstacles are preventing you or your sales team from securing meetings with targeted prospective customers.

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

YOUR SALES STORY online course

Supercharge Your Sales Leadership full-day intensive

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This episode is sponsored by Pursuit Sales Solutions. If you are looking for help adding A-player talent to your team, contact Mike’s friends at pursuitsalessolutions.com/weinberg

Mike recently led a workshop for a group of talented, hungry, driven, young sales managers who were falling into an all-too-common trap – “doing” instead of coaching, developing, and holding sales reps accountable. During the session Mike challenged this group of managers with a question he had never thought to ask before:

When making joint sales calls with your people, is your primary purpose to…

A) Proactively develop your salesperson, or

B) Advance and close the sale

The healthy discussion that ensued inspired this episode. Listen in as Mike shares more of the story, promotes the importance of proactive, developmental, nonurgent coaching, and offers thoughts on best practices when managers ride shotgun with reps on sales calls.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

The First-Time Manager: Sales book

Supercharge Your Sales Leadership event, October 8-9, The Porsche Experience Center, Atlanta

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This episode is sponsored by Pursuit Sales Solutions. If you looking for help adding A-player talent to your team, contact Mike’s friends at pursuitsalessolutions.com/weinberg