Helping You Thrive as a
Sales Manager
Skylark supports sales managers with practical help to be successful, especially in early tenure.
We help you survive and thrive in your sales management role, and to have personal impact quickly
Time is precious so we are building a catalogue of 40 min sessions called Widgets - perfect for plugging into weekly calls or team meetings
We have workshops to create a great team culture based on trust
You have access to a community of sales leaders who are available to support you and who have recorded some useful insights
Skylark Content
Build a Great Team Culture
Without Trust you have no team foundation - How do you build trust, how to you gain trust, how do you retain trust ?
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Know yourself, know your team, understand and develop both
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Encourage a diverse thinking team and harness their styles to create high performance
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Understand and utilise DiSC and the Five Behaviours of a Successful Team and The Six Critical Questions to build through Trust and Clarity to High Performance
Survive & Thrive as a Sales Manager
If you are new in your role, we can help you:
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Get to know your team quickly
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Get organised and focused
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Manage with clarity
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Prioritise through the noise
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Present yourself positively
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Get forecasting skillfully
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Manage performance with compassion but determination
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Look after yourself and your team
Engage with our Community
We have a community of people and organisations who are here to help you:
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Sales Leadership Community of current sales leaders
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Personal coaches and mentors
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Management & technology consulting
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Clients with great business solutions
Skylark Content
Blogs
We've tried to capture our thoughts and experiences in series of Blogs
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Series - Rainbow Thinking - Understanding the diversity of thinking and behaving within your team
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Series - Management Processes - How do you make them work for you
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Series - Leaving the Corporate World - planning and coping with the change of leaving full time work
Podcasts
Tim chats to various people in the Skylark Community about their experiences and advice for new sales managers.
Surviving & Thriving As A Sales Manager is a series to help new sales managers get to grips with their first 12 months
These are informal 40 minute audio Widgets that can be consumed on the move
Articles
There is too much stuff out there to read and a lot of conflicting advice. Here's a selection of articles that we think makes sense and are useful for sales managers. Recommended by the Skylark Leadership Community
The Skylark Community
Our Clients
We have some great clients that its fun working with and we have delivered
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DiSC® Profiles for Individuals
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DiSC® Workshops for teams
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5 Behaviours Workshops
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6 Critical Questions Workshop
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Personal Mentoring
Sales Leader Community
This community consists existing Sales Leaders who want to give back, share their experiences and be available to help you:
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Listen to their podcasts
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Submit questions
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Connect with them
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Read their hints and tips for success
Business Partnerships
Our partnerships consist like-minded organisations who are here to help you
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Management Consultancies
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Mentors & Coaches
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Technology Consultants
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Business solutions
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Procurement Consutants