Going from sales to sales leadership for the first time, same company. What advice do you have?

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Listen to your team and don’t come in with big changes, assuming you know what’s going on and the right answers to everything. Remember that you’re not a salesperson anymore and stay out of the weeds and your team’s day to day work - your job now is to be strategic, remove roadblocks, and set a vision and help guide your team to success.

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Have a tough skin. When I was first promoted, they tried to take advantage of me being a female in a managerial role. Just remember to motivate the team and be there to help them out and to give them strategies. What they make is going to be what you make. It's a whole new ball game.

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