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The Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook
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The Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook

by Prabhakant Sinha, Arun Shastri, Sally E. Lorimer
October 2024
Beginner
368 pages
7h 53m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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3. Driving Salespeople’s Success with Customers

At every level of a company, from frontline employees to top leadership, the goal is to get customers to buy, and sales managers are pivotal in this quest. Managers are entrusted to work through and with salespeople to grow streams of mutual value for customers and the company.

In this chapter, we explore a manager’s role in building and nurturing customer relationships by:

  • Assisting with sales planning
  • Working alongside salespeople to execute sales sprints that are responsive to the market
  • Enabling the sharing of customer insights and learnings across their teams
  • Facilitating transitions in customer relationships

This is a balancing act for a manager—empowering salespeople while directing ...

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