Sales Leadership Podcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
275 episodes of Sales Leadership Podcast since the first episode, which aired on June 20th, 2018.
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Episode 115: #115: Catie Ivey Coutinho of Demandbase — High Impact Leadership in a New, Virtual World
September 8th, 2020 | 52 mins 55 secs
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
Catie joins the Sales Leadership Podcast and asks, how purposeful are you in your role as a sales leader? Having purpose will help you make every single person who works for you become the best version of themselves, professionally and personally. Catie explains how focusing your purpose can help you develop new skills for your sales process to become a high impact leader in a virtual environment, rather than simply a talking head.
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Episode 114: #114: Robert Beattie of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting Professionals — Cutting through the Noise Your Salespeople Face Today
August 31st, 2020 | 59 mins 17 secs
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
Robert Beattie, the first-ever guest of the Sales Leadership Podcast, joins us two years later to share his advice and knowledge on how to lead through the confusion and stress facing sales leaders as 2020 ends. His recommendation? Don't be that manager who just creates noise. Reps are facing more noise than ever, personal, professional, physically. Pressure coming from new challenges, new opinions, new points of view, new health challenges, new professional challenges…everywhere, there are crazy things causing confusion. Don’t be a manager who adds to the noise, but a leader who cuts through the noise.
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Episode 113: #113: Dale Zwinzinski of SmartAction — Becoming a Coach Your Reps Will Thank You For
August 25th, 2020 | 51 mins 29 secs
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
Dale joins us on this episode to talk about the role of sales coaching in businesses today. Leaders who don’t know how to be a good coach to their reps are becoming exposed, and professional salespeople will look elsewhere for leaders who will provide that kind of development. When business is good, winning covers a lot of bad leadership. When things get tougher, are you prepared to coach your team out of it?
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Episode 112: #112: Kevin Dorsey of PatientPop — Scaling Greatness
August 17th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
Everyone knows sales is hard, and there are no happy accidents. Everything you do as a leader matters; the 1:1, building culture, setting goals, connecting to people rather than numbers. But maybe most important is to help your team build belief. If your salespeople believe they can reach their goals both professionally and personally, your team will exceed those goals, and it won’t be an accident.
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Episode 111: #111: Chris Roth of Insider Intelligence — The Difference Maker: It’s ALWAYS on the Inside…Not the Outside
August 10th, 2020 | 53 mins 58 secs
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
Chris shows us how sales leaders can face tough changes, adapt, and win. Learn how your sales team can find success by adapting to each prospect’s situations daily, and quickly find ways to show value. Chris shows us how identifying new opportunities for personal growth is more important than ever, and when you are at peace with yourself you are better able to adapt successfully.
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Episode 110: #110: Todd Caponi of Sales Melon — Becoming “Flawsome” with Transparency in Sales
August 3rd, 2020 | 58 mins 13 secs
coaching technology, culture, passion, quota attainment, rob jeppsen, sales coaching, sales goals, sales leadership, sales productivity, salesforce utilization, training, transparency, xvoyant
Todd Caponi, Founder of Sales Melon, teaches us how to get your product’s imperfections considered and taken care of early in the sales process and reduce buyer defense mechanisms. Transparency outperforms perfection when you are talking to a customer because it removes some of the friction inherent in the sales process. Customers can just confirm the flaw, rather than putting time and energy into finding them when you are transparent right from the start. Help your customers do their homework. Help them reduce the anxiety that they feel as they work to ensure they are making the right decision.
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Episode 109: #109: Armand Farrokh of Carta — Build a Culture of Commitment
July 27th, 2020 | 53 mins 57 secs
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
One of the biggest mistakes sales leaders make during their 1:1’s with their sales reps is having conversations but not making commitments. On this episode of the Sales Leadership Podcast, learn from Armand how to build a culture of commitment for your team, and then teach your reps to get commitments with their customers.
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Episode 108: #108: Laura Guerra of ringDNA — Culture: It Isn't Part Of The Game...It Is The Game
July 20th, 2020 | 56 mins 7 secs
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
Laura joins the Sales Leadership Podcast and talks with Rob about culture. She defines culture as a consistent observable pattern of behavior. Culture drives every company, no matter what the business builds and sells. Laura says that culture is made up of the small things the people at your company do every day, not the big things you do once a year or something you did years ago. Culture can be a leader’s best friend or their greatest challenge. Learn from Laura how the best corporate cultures are intentionally maintained, and not just a happy (or unhappy) accident.
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Episode 107: #107: Scott Leese, CEO and Founder of Scott Leese Consulting — Talking ‘Bout an Evolution (in Sales)
July 13th, 2020 | 59 mins 45 secs
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
Scott defines the role of a sales leader as helping salespeople reach their desired level of success, whatever that is. Scott is well-known as a sales leader who can show you how to evolve your team to changing conditions, and that those teams who move first will have great advantages over slower-moving competitors. Learn how important it is to be a doer, and to be one of those who take quick action and win the most.
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Episode 106: #106: Mike Bosworth of Solution Selling - Creating a Sales Experience Your Customers Will Thank You For
July 6th, 2020 | 53 mins 6 secs
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
Mike Bosworth, author and founder of Solution Selling, talks about the concerns buyers go through in the sales process, and how you can manage those concerns. Buyer phases go from emotional to logical to emotional again, and navigating through these phases can be challenging for unprepared salespeople. Learn how you can build a better relationship with your customers and help them reach their own visions of success.
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Episode 105: #105: Morgan Ingram, Director of Sales Execution and Evolution — Playing Offense without Being Offensive
June 29th, 2020 | 57 mins 43 secs
1:1, action, sales coaching, sales leadership, success, xvoyant
Morgan Ingram, Director of Sales Execution and Evolution, JB Sales Training joins us on Episode 105. Are you an action-oriented leader, or just a big talker? Morgan shows us how to be an action leader, not merely a thought leader. While planning is important, doing is what helps you create confidence, and figure things out. The best and most-effective sales leaders can demonstrate the key skills and activities that lead to success. Now is the time for your sales team to evolve, and you can start by following Morgan’s proven path to sales success.
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Episode 104: #104: Julie Hansen, Founder of Performance Sales and Training — Creating Connection with Video
June 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
coaching technology, culture, passion, quota attainment, rob jeppsen, sales coaching, sales goals, sales leadership, sales productivity, salesforce utilization, training, video, xvoyant
The sales world has changed, and many sales leaders are wondering how to rewrite their sales playbook. Julie Hansen, Founder of Performance Sales and Training, shows us how video has become not just a critical platform for sales success, but a critical skill as well. Julie is an expert at using modern sales tools and processes like video to sell, and can help your team learn, apply, and internalize winning skills to deliver a persuasive, compelling presentation or demonstration that wins business when it counts…and it always counts.
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Episode 103: #103: Heather Monahan of Boss In Heels — Proceed With Confidence
June 15th, 2020 | 56 mins 52 secs
coaching technology, confidence, culture, passion, quota attainment, rob jeppsen, sales coaching, sales goals, sales leadership, sales productivity, salesforce utilization, training, xvoyant
As sales leaders, our job is to sell our way through this current Covid19 crisis. Members of our sales teams have to believe they can win, and to do this they have to know that their leaders believe. We must push our confidence into our teams and lift them up. Learn from Heather that doing builds confidence, and you as a leader can create a culture of doing and lean into challenges. Taking action builds confidence, and confidence is what is needed to sell through this difficult time.
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Episode 102: #102: Sam Dunning of Web Choice — The Impact of a Great Manager
June 8th, 2020 | 54 mins 39 secs
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
Sam Dunning, Sales & Marketing Director and Co-owner of Web Choice joins Rob on the podcast to talk about how great managers create clear, well-lit pathways to success. They don’t just give them a quota and then let the stack-rank report light the way. The best managers don’t leverage pressure and gamification, they create individualized plans for each member of the team and then help them execute. The plan is very personal…and not an “average” plan for the entire team.
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Episode 101: #101: Darryl Praill of VanillaSoft — Speaking With the Voice of Your Customer
June 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
building a sales team, culture, customer voice, passion onboarding, practice, relevance, sales improvement, training
Darryl’s powerful combination of sales and marketing experience brings a valuable view of the sales world today. With the Covid19 crisis affecting every business, salespeople need to take better care of each lead. Your targeted customers are picking up the phone and letting their guard down a bit more than during the “old normal”. If you can be authentic and offer relevant and helpful information in the customer’s own voice, the same voice a marketer uses, then you can get back the high growth place where you belong.
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Episode 100: #100: Kristina Jaramillo of Personal ABM — Helping Buyers Learn to Buy Again
May 26th, 2020 | 53 mins 8 secs
building a sales team, culture, passion onboarding, practice, sales improvement, training
Kristina Jaramillo, President at Personal ABM, talks with Rob on this latest edition of the Sales Leadership Podcast about how to rebound from the Covid19 sales crisis and what it will take to teach buyers how to buy again. Selling used to be about meeting the needs of the customer by solving a problem, building a good business case versus the risk of not solving a specific problem. Now selling requires finding a way to solve the problem right now, and purchase decisions are made requiring many more people to come to an agreement on a solution that must solve a mission-critical problem.