Sales Manager Infographics

High performing sales teams start with high performing sales managers.
In fact, recent studies show 70% of the variance in team engagement is determined solely by the manager.

Quick Takes on Leadership+Management

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How the Right Hire Improves Teamwork Dynamics

The “personality” on a team is usually the individual who talks with everyone. They bring energy to conversations and to the workplace. But there's a downside.

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How to Improve Mental Health and Productivity

You’ve likely heard about quiet quitting, but did you know the new summer trend is quiet vacationing? What does this mean, and is it a sign that your employees’ mental health and productivity need a reset? Let’s take a look.

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How To Incorporate Motivation When Setting Sales Goals

Achieving sales goals is never easy. Setting sales goals can be even more challenging. But managers must do this part of their job well to ensure their company’s success.

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Add Psychometric Assessments to Your Hiring Checklist for Outstanding Results

The pendulum in the job market has swung from the prospective employees’ side to the hiring managers’ side. But it’s still not easy to find the right team members. That’s why you need to develop a hiring checklist.

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How to Motivate Challenging Employees

Not every employee brings a high level of motivation to work on a daily basis. That’s fine — people have "off" days. But what should you do about your challenging employees – the ones who are very capable but never seem motivated?

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Awesome Employee Engagement Hacks To Quickly Reduce Turnover

Employees aren’t leaving companies as quickly as they were two years ago. But you may still need to reduce turnover in your organization. To do that, you should focus on employee engagement.

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Micromanagement and Other Leadership Behaviors to Let Go of Now

You’ve finally made it into the leadership position you’ve always wanted. It should be smooth sailing from now on, right? But what if you possess annoying leadership behaviors such as a tendency for micromanagement.

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How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome

Most employees have felt like they are suffering from imposter syndrome at least once in their professional career. The fear of failure can prevent us from thinking creatively and doing our best work.

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Are Your High-​​Performing Teams Ready for the New Buyer Behavior

Newsflash: Today’s B2B buyers do not want to interact with salespeople in the traditional way. But they still need access to the products that will solve their most challenging problems. Here are a few ways that your high-​performing teams can adjust to the new reality.

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5 Top Ideas for How to Improve Productivity

To retain your marketplace position as an industry leader, you must focus constantly on how to improve productivity. Managers typically expect their team members to work more efficiently. To be truly effective, managers should first objectively analyze their own activity and appropriately adjust strategy.

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Why Culture Is One Of The Top Team Productivity Tools

Are your employees supportive of your workplace culture? When employees feel positive about their company’s culture, they are more engaged with their work.

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Developing Human Capital Delivers A Competitive Edge To Your Team

One of the most valuable assets of any company is its human capital. This is defined as “the skills, knowledge and qualifications of a… workforce.”

Executive Interviews

Manage Smarter with Kathi Enderes - Systemic HR - AI in HR - Remote Work - Hybrid Work - Human Resources - TeamTrait - SalesFuel
Manage Smarter, James Scouller, How to Build Winning Teams, team building, leadership, performance groups, SalesFuel, TeamTrait
Manage Smarter, Urs Koenig, Radical Humility. Humility. Humble. leadership, sales management, self-awareness, after-action reviews, UN, United Nations, peacekeeping, SalesFuel
Manage Smarter, Frank Somma, B2B, NLP, AI, SalesFuel, SalesCred
Manage Smarter, Ryan Ruud, AI, Marketing Automation, Sales Tips, Lake One, SalesFuel
Richard Weylman, Client Retention, Customer Loyalty, Customer Satisfaction, Manage Smarter, SalesFuel
Joel Garfinkle, Executive Presence, Manage Smarter, Impostor Syndrome, Leadership, Credibility, SalesFuel
Dr. Jean Oursler, EOS, Caveman Brain, Urgency, The Results Queen, productivity, Manage Smarter, podcast, SalesFuel, TeamTrait

The Manage Smarter show features lively discussions about the psychology of sales, marketing, management and leadership.
New episodes are released twice monthly wherever you get your podcasts.