On our 50th Episode, Jacco van der Kooij, Founder of Winning by Design, joins the Sales Leadership Podcast to talk about how you can become a modern sales leader. Jacco shows us how focusing on what matters most to the customer can grow your sales by 2X without doubling your sales team or doubling the price. He shows us the seven key moments that a modern sales leader can work on with the sales team and be a coach, not a trainer.
Jun 11, 2019•57 min
In this week's episode, Jen Spencer of SmartBug Media joins us to talk about team. She describes, in detail, a good, authentic approach to creating a "team." According to Jen, you should build a team that compliments your own strength and overshadows your weaknesses. Her advice is to stay close to the Market, close to your staff, and find ways to level your people and compensate for their weaknesses. If you can do these things, you can build the right team to spur growth.
Jun 04, 2019•51 min
In this week's episode, Ryan O'Hara, VP of Growth and Marketing at LeadIQ, talks about one of the most important skills in Sales: building pipeline. He says you can't have the important conversation about your product and the problems it solves if you can't prospect to find someone to converse with. Ryan believes that you were hired to be yourself, not someone else because it is your unique skills that your company needs. Authenticity is what will help you win. Ryan also believes in building bra...
May 28, 2019•53 min
This week on the Sales Leadership Podcast, we learn from Amy Appleyard, SVP Global Inside Sales for Carbon Black. Amy talks about how all your competitors are trying to be unique, so to drive high growth you have to give your customers something more. Be agile and nimble, and embrace change as you design and redesign your sales process. Amy also shows us how to help your sales team be "all in", and be excited about pursuing success.
May 21, 2019•51 min
This week Tamara Schenk, Research Director of CSO Insights, shows us how to use dynamic coaching to gain a two-digit improvement to drive your sales team’s success. She has performed the research that shows how coaching is a skill that can be developed, talks about how sales leaders should have a long-term view while focusing on short term issues.
May 14, 2019•56 min
In this episode, learn how Adam Clark, Director of Sales for REPAY, measures and manages all sales activities and applies a laser focus to learn what his team is doing well and what could be improved. He subscribes to the idea that if you can't measure it, you don't know what you are doing. Adam shows how a leader with a student mentality can drive positive change and lead a company to continued high growth and success.
May 07, 2019•54 min
In this week's episode, Kevin Hart, Vice president of Sales & Marketing at Challenger, shares how disruption can help you get disproportionate results. He says you should start with learning what "good" looks like to your customers, and then do whatever it takes to teach your team to reach it. It might mean doing something new that is uncomfortable, but Kevin shows us why that is how high-growth companies are always reaching higher. This is an episode that you don't want to miss!
Apr 30, 2019•52 min
This week we learn from Kharisma Moraski, Vice President of Sales for Conversica. Kharisma started selling at age five and continued an amazing career as a sales leader. Learn how she and her team recognize and utilize the milestones on the path to success. Kharisma talks about how to assess the skill and will on your team, and build a team that can move mountains and creates great leaders. She espouses a work-life balance and fosters the growth of her people.
Apr 23, 2019•50 min
Less than 5% of sales call information makes it into Salesforce. You can't improve what you don't fully understand, so Joe says to find a way to see what's working. Find a way to see exactly what your customers are saying. If you have a genuine desire to help customers, you will find time to do it. Having systems for interacting with customers and potential customers is how you eliminate variance at scale, which Joe says is a key to entering high-growth mode.
Apr 16, 2019•51 min
This week's guest is Tim Clarke of UNCrushed. Tim brings a special story today on an important topic. He believes that salespeople need to be wary of the pressure to win, to be a "crusher," because that kind of success comes with negative effects. Tim says that we are so focused on outcomes that we often lose track of people. Tim's non-profit group, UNCrushed, helps salespeople avoid the negative impact of the "crush it" culture. He talks about how to minimize the soul-crushing rejection, the un...
Apr 09, 2019•49 min
This week's guest is Sam Jacobs of Revenue Collective. He believes that sales leaders are in the most volatile position in business. As sales leaders, there are absolutely things that you have to do. As Sam says "We must be great. Great from the get-go." You also have to ask yourself questions about the company-like, "what is the market size?" All the salesmanship in the world won't solve the problem of a small market. How connected to the market are the leaders? Sam believes that ensuring posit...
Apr 02, 2019•54 min
This week's guest is Woody Klemetson of Divvy. Woody is a leader presiding over truly hyper growth. He believes that great partnering is the key to growth, making sure that they understand you and your business as well as possible and vice versa. Woody is also a great believer in team-which he says extends to everyone in the company. He gets to know his team in a personal and authentic way because it fuels the mission that they all signed up for. His advice: take every chance possible to build u...
Mar 26, 2019•48 min
This week's guest on the Sales Leadership Podcast is Jamie Crosbie. Jamie believes that it doesn't matter whether you are better or worse than your competition. You have to know why you are different and why that matters. Jamie says that in order to have sales success in a competitive market, she lists three things: 1-Specialize; 2- Process, 3-Problem. Although sometimes people get lucky, if you want to be hired as a sales leader, you need to be able to discuss and show how process helped you wi...
Mar 19, 2019•49 min
This week's episode features Ben Simms, Vice President of Commercial Client Services at MarketSource. Ben is a believer in process. He believes that it is the blue print for what it takes to get into high growth mode and stay there. How does he build a team focused on process? MarketSource is good at making sure that they have their I.C.P. for recruiting and they hire for coachability. Ben believes that coachability is the x-factor in whether you are going to get someone to grow with the company...
Mar 12, 2019•45 min
This week's guest is Keith Rosen, is an undisputed expert in the realm of sales coaching. He believes that the biggest problem that managers have is that "Chief Problem Solver" is the role they adopt because they make assumptions that they need to be a fixer and a closer. He believes that managers are here to maximize human potential and that only 1 in 10 managers is qualified to manage - let alone coach. Keith says that if leaders take the right role, they make their people more valuable. Join ...
Mar 05, 2019•54 min
In this week's episode, Max Altschuler, a consummate salesman and the founder of Sales Hacker, is now Vice President of Marketing at Outreach. He brings the rare perspective of a sales leader who now leads a marketing team. He explains how using your marketing team to send the right message to connect to problems that your customers are experiencing. Max shares many valuable insights and experiences in an episode that you can't afford to miss.
Feb 26, 2019•50 min
This week's guest is Alyson Welch. Alyson is the VP of Sales for Twilio. Her number one priority is wearing her customer's shoes and understanding the customer's voice. She also believes that as a leader, you have to have performed as a salesperson. You have to have the cadence and operational discipline, but you also need the personality. empathy and energy for your team and your customers. By doing so, you can be in charge of your own destiny. Join Rob and Alyson for this insightful look at wh...
Feb 19, 2019•45 min
This week's guest on the Sales Leadership Podcast is Kyle Morris, founder of SifData. Kyle is a former Special Forces Army Ranger who offers insights from his military experience that he has applied to his highly successful company. He believes that it's hard to stay in high-growth mode for a long period of time. The only chance you have is to have a bullet-proof sales process. According to Kyle, you have to have systems to find the right people and then have systems to plug them into. A mature ...
Feb 12, 2019•44 min
This week's guest is Jason Santana, Senior Director of Sales Strategy and Operations at Paychex. Jason believes that culture is either your greatest asset or your greatest challenge. Coming from a background of data science and sales leadership, Jason has a unique understanding of their relationship to culture. He answers the question: how do you use data and still maintain personal connections? He believes that data is what makes it so you can individualize with people. Jason gives some great m...
Feb 05, 2019•50 min
In this episode, Rob interviews a big name in the sales world—Keenan from A Sales Guy. Keenan believes that selling has become too tactical and product-centric. He believes you should sell to the gap between the current state and the future state by finding the problems in the market and concentrating on them. For Keenan, understanding your prospect's problems is the most important part of the sales process. He gives a multitude of actionable examples of how to find and define this gap how to be...
Jan 29, 2019•51 min
In this week's podcast, Skye PoVey of weave talks about how he builds a culture that empowers his people and teaches them to become leaders themselves. Learn how he uses his passion to develop people to become the best they can be, whether they are selling software services or selling hot dogs in NYC. Skye’s mantra of “How you do anything is how you do everything” drives his success and has helped him drive high growth at Weave.
Jan 22, 2019•54 min
This week's guest on the Sales Leadership Podcast is Adobe's Lacey Bell. Lacey is the GVP, Adobe Target Sales of North America Adobe. Lacey has a tangible enthusiasm for her team. She believes in appreciating internal networks and celebrating diversity. Enabling her team is Job One and supporting Women in Sales is her passion (https://www.linkedin.com/company/utah-women-in-sales/).
Jan 15, 2019•48 min
This week's podcast features Ryan Cannady of Deere Employees Credit Union. Ryan goes into great detail about what he means when he says "It's the People." And it's not what you think. He talks about building an extraordinarily motivated and driven team by concentrating on the coaching relationship. Ryan believes if you invest in your people, your numbers and success will come as they feel chalenged and rewarded.
Jan 08, 2019•47 min
We've taken the best of our first 25 episodes and found the common traits that these great leaders share. In Volume 2, Rob Jeppsen breaks down episodes with Doug Landis, Cody Lamens, Michael Barton, Dan Cook, Ryan Leavitt, Matt Millen, Jeff Spencer, Sean Murray, Brad Jensen, Kyle Norton, and Haley Katsman. You will be surprised at how closely these leaders' messages align. So enjoy this holiday gift from the Sales Leadership Podcast team.
Dec 18, 2018•57 min
In this week's episode, we flip the tables and Rob is interviewed by past guest Doug Landis of Emergence Capital. Doug gets right to the point: How do you make coaching better and be relevant to every rep? Rob goes into detail on the Seven Deadly Sins of Sales Coaching and gives can't miss advice on identifying and overcoming each of the sins. This week is Rob's holiday gift to sales coaches everywhere and you will be a better coach for listening.
Dec 11, 2018•33 min
We've taken the best of our first 25 episodes and found the common traits that these great leaders share. In Volume 1, Rob Jeppsen breaks down episodes with Robert Beattie, Justin Welsh, Travis Huff, Mark Smith, Ralph Barsi, Robert Cornell, Tonni Bennett, Kevin Dorsey, John Barrows, Scott Leese, Justin Hiatt, and Jacob Heugly.
Dec 04, 2018•52 min
This week’s guest is Doug Landis of Emergence Capital. He an icon in the Sales industry. Doug asks a simple question of salespeople: Who’s voice are you using? Too often salespeople find themselves speaking with the voice that they think the company wants. Doug is committed to speaking with the voice of the customer, and he gives actionable advice on building the listening function into your leadership process. He believes it is your most competitive advantage and that the 1:1 is the place to fa...
Nov 27, 2018•53 min
This week Cody Lamens of TinyPulse talks about how engagement drives not just how hard you work, but how effective you are in your efforts. He describes how sales leaders can face and defeat challenges by adapting and adjusting to the pressure and opposition. Cody brings great success to TinyPulse by tuning his processes and building passion in his teams through effort, quality, and open communication.
Nov 20, 2018•46 min
This week’s guest brings a ton of experience in taking more from the market. Michael Barton of Avery Dennison shares his process for achieving stretch goals, which includes three major tenets. First, he believes it is all about mentality. Everyone must buy in to take more from the market. You must be in high-growth mode, and if you focus everything you do on that goal, you will achieve it. Second, he believes that you must be even-handed with your team. If you are transparent with your dealings,...
Nov 13, 2018•42 min
This week, Dan Cook, Senior Vice President of Sales and Customer Success at Lucidchart, addresses the fact that scaling is no joke. According to Dan, there is no end to the thirst for growth, so you had better learn how to scale your team and your processes. To do that, he believes that reps need to self-assess and design their processes around what they find. In combination with the 1:1 report, self-assessment is the only way to close the communication loop and scale a sales team. He addresses ...
Nov 06, 2018•48 min
