Selling is Everyone's Business: What it Takes to Create a Great Salesperson - Hardcover

Steve Johnson; Adam Shaivitz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471776734 ISBN 13: 9780471776734

Publisher: Wiley, 2006

Synopsis

"Close your door. Shut down your e-mail. Let voice mail catch your calls. You're going to want to give this book your full attention. It'll take an hour of your time (okay, maybe two), but it may be the most fruitful hour (or two) you've ever spent. Follow the authors' advice and you can transform your career-and maybe your entire company."
-Matt Howard, Pacific Northwest Divisional Director, Premier Banking and Investments, Bank of America

"Selling Is Everyone's Business demonstrates very well the importance of not going at it alone in sales. The tools in this book will help any sales professional increase their effectiveness as a seller and as a sales coach. This step-by-step guide will help you develop a structured plan that will improve your skills and those of the teammates around you."
-Matt Darrah, Senior Vice President, North America Operations Enterprise Rent-A-Car

"I knew that I would enjoy Selling Is Everyone's Business. I saw how the authors work with sales leaders and knew they had 'street cred.' But the book surpassed my expectations. Anyone who sells for a living or coaches front-line salespeople must read this book."
-Tony Rutigliano, VP/Chief Learning Officer, Automatic Data Processing (ADP)

"I believe everyone wants to be led, regardless of ego, seniority, or expertise level. People are motivated to be led by passionate people. This coaching process gives potential leaders the prescription, tools, resources, and methodology for getting to that level of great, passionate leadership. If you don't change your behaviors after reading this book, then shame on you."
-Tom Seitz, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Wealth Advisory Services, Piper Jaffray

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Selling Is Everyone's Business—especially yours. If you're an executive in charge of salespeople, a sales team leader, a sales manager, or a salesperson, selling is more than just business; it's life and death. So how do you improve your performance and that of your sales team?

Commissions and bonuses might get your salespeople working harder, but if they don't have the latest ideas, tools, and training it won't matter. The key to improving sales is in leading and training your people to excel. Sales teams, just like sports teams, need a good coach to reach their full potential. They need inspiration and motivation, the best tactics, and lots of practice. It's your job to give it to them.

Selling Is Everyone's Business is a guide specifically designed for sales team leaders who want to take their own and their team's performance to the next level. Written by two of the country's top sales training consultants, this comprehensive guide features case studies, interviews, and special learning tools that help you understand these, and many other, vital topics:

• The role and best practices of a coach
• Developing and executing a game plan for yourself and your team
• Improving top performers and getting rid of underperformers
• Implementing best practices from top sales managers
• Providing feedback, motivation, and inspiration for your teams
• Transferring the skills of top performers to everyone else
• Creating an environment that encourages improvement and performance
• Developing your skills as a coach and leader

The business of selling is changing. The best salespeople already know all the tricks of the trade, and the best organizations are shifting their focus from the art of selling to the art of training and coaching their teams. Selling Is Everyone's Business gives sales coaches and sales leaders specific tactics, step-by-step guidance, and cutting-edge insight on leading their teams to a higher level of performance.

About the Author:

STEVE JOHNSON and ADAM SHAIVITZ are partners in Next Level, a sales training and consulting business. With a combined fifty years of experience in the field, and having conducted training sessions with more than 500,000 salespeople and 10,000 sales coaches and sales executives, they are among the top experts in sales and sales coaching. Johnson is also the coauthor of If You're Not Out Selling, You're Being Outsold, from Wiley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0471776734
• ISBN 13: 9780471776734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200