Senthil Kumar / Roles / first-time sales managers

Sales training and coaching for first-time sales managers

For sales heads and HR leaders responsible for developing first-time sales managers — the transition from great rep to great manager. Field-tested frameworks, real coaching, and a practice built on 17 years of B2B sales experience across India.

The buyer here

Typical clients: sales heads and HR leaders responsible for developing first-time sales managers — the transition from great rep to great manager.

The best rep gets promoted to manager. It's the wrong promotion in the wrong direction unless the transition is deliberately supported. First-time managers keep selling deals themselves rather than coaching their team to sell them.

What actually breaks
  • The manager who does 40% of the team's deals herself and calls it 'leading from the front'
  • The manager who runs pipeline reviews as status meetings instead of coaching conversations
  • The manager who doesn't know how to coach a rep who isn't like them
What I bring

First-line manager coaching is a specific discipline. I focus on the 3-4 behaviours that separate great first-line managers from struggling ones.

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