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The Sales Manager Playbook for Leading People

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4 courses

48 practices

6 hours

Learn how to activate and sustain your sales team’s motivation by aligning compensation plans, personal drivers, and business targets. Master strategies to connect individual motivators to outcomes, clarify comp mechanics, and reinforce momentum beyond quotas.

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Coaching Employees

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Ensuring Understanding

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Managing Change

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Motivating Others

Course 1

Align Team Motivation with Sales Targets and Comp Plans

4 lessons

12 practices

Help sales managers activate and sustain team motivation by aligning comp plans, personal drivers, and business targets. Managers will learn how to connect individual motivations to meaningful outcomes, clarify comp mechanics, and reinforce momentum beyond quota cycles.

Course 2

Communicating with Clarity and Impact

4 lessons

12 practices

Learn to lead effective conversations that drive performance, clarity, and alignment. This course helps sales managers develop the skills to tailor messages, set expectations, and communicate with confidence across reps, peers, and executives.

Course 3

Leading Your Team Through Challenges and Changes

4 lessons

12 practices

Build the confidence to guide your sales team through uncertainty, change, and difficult conversations. Learn how to lead with transparency, resilience, and empathy when stakes are high or circumstances shift.

Course 4

Coaching for Growth and Development

4 lessons

12 practices

Strengthen your ability to coach reps for long-term development and ownership. Learn to spot coaching opportunities, ask powerful questions, empower autonomy, and sustain growth through consistent follow-up.

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