ProActive Sales Management: How to Lead, Motivate, and Stay Ahead of the Game

By William Miller

Today’s sales managers have to be quicker than ever, being more proactive about hiring the best performers and retaining them, multi-tasking, and managing complex sales processes in order to close more and more deals. This book provides readers with a proven method for managing the sales process as well as the salespeople. Packed with specific, field-tested techniques, ProActive Sales Management shows sales managers how to:

• motivate a sales team
• get their sales team to prospect and qualify
• create a proactive sales culture
• effectively coach and counsel up and down the sales organization
• reduce reports to one sheet of paper and 10 minutes a week
• forecast with up to 90% accuracy
• take A players to A+ levels

Packed with all new metrics and tactics for making the numbers in today’s sales environment, this is an important resource no sales manager should be without.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AMACOM
• Release date: Jul 15, 2009
• ISBN: 9780814414576

William Miller

William (Skip) Miller learned the hard way that being unprepared for cold-calling is a surefire way to lose your job when he started his career in sales, quitting after only one day on his first job. He learned from his mistakes and is now President of M3 Learning, a ProActive Sales Management and Sales Training Company and is the sales training leader in Silicon Valley.  Skip has provided training to tens of thousands of sales people and hundreds of companies in over 35 countries. This is his seventh book.