095: The professional and the personal: how to build closer relationships with your SDRs with Cognetik’s James Bawden

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes James Bawden, Senior Business Development Representative at Cognetik.

James has been a frontline sales professional for years – he’s held full-cycle sales gigs, managed teams, and helped launch sales development programs. If it’s a sales role, James has crushed it.

Oh, and he has his own podcast called ‘the Lunch Break Podcast.” You can read more about that on James’ LinkedIn page.

Throughout the pod, Collin and James discuss a critical element of any successful sales development team: how sales leaders can build close, dynamic relationships with their SDRs. Highlights include: why caring about building close relationship with SDRs is critical (11:16), the signs of a happy and engaged SDR (13:43), the importance of extracurricular activities (24:19), effective one-on-ones (27:09), and cold call Collin (49:52).