Leading High-Performance Sales Teams
Sales teams do not perform because they are pushed — they perform because their leader runs a system in which performing is the natural outcome.
Format
Classroom · Virtual
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The best salesperson promoted to manager usually keeps selling — through the team, at the team, instead of building the machine that sells without them. This programme trains the machine: pipeline management as an operating rhythm — stages that mean something, reviews that move deals, forecasts built on evidence rather than optimism; coaching as the leader’s highest-return hour, done on live deals; target-setting and territory design the team reads as fair; and the culture questions — recognition, recruitment, and the exit conversations that protect the standard.
What you will do
Who attends
Sales managers and directors; team leads newly promoted from selling; commercial heads in B2B businesses; founders leading their own sales effort.
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.The operating rhythm
- Pipeline stages with entry evidence — no more wishful columns
- The deal review: qualify hard, advance or release
- Forecasting: evidence-weighted, owned, honest
II.Coaching the numbers up
- The coaching hour: live deals, real calls, specific behaviour
- Ride-alongs and call reviews without the theatre
- The middle 60%: where coaching moves the total
III.The system around them
- Targets and territories: stretch, fairness and the maths shown
- Recognition and incentives beyond the commission plan
- Recruiting, onboarding and the standard protected at exit
Frequently asked
What does the sales leadership course cover?
The system in which performing is the natural outcome: pipeline management as an operating rhythm — stages that mean something, reviews that move deals, forecasts built on evidence rather than optimism; coaching done on live deals as the leader’s highest-return hour; target-setting and territory design the team reads as fair; and the culture work — recognition, recruitment and the exit conversations that protect the standard.
I was recently promoted from selling — is this course for me?
Precisely for you. The programme opens on the classic trap: the best salesperson promoted to manager who keeps selling — through the team, at the team — instead of building the machine that sells without them. It trains the shift from closing deals yourself to running the system that closes them.
How is forecasting handled?
As evidence, not optimism: pipeline stages with entry evidence rather than wishful columns, deal reviews that qualify hard — advance or release — and forecasts weighted by proof, owned by the leader, and solid enough to take to the CFO as commitments.
Can it be delivered in-house for our sales management team?
Yes — like every BIZENIUS programme, it is available in-house, tailored to your pipeline stages, sales cycle and commission structures, and delivered in English and French. Sessions run on a rolling calendar, with dates confirmed on request, and fees and quotations are provided on enquiry.
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In their words
Knowledge transfer, emphasised throughout
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