{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Authentic Sales Manager","title":"Empathy Is the Skill: Coaching a Struggling Sales Team featuring John Noble","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1687,"description":"John Noble is a leadership development professional, trainer, coach, and people-first leader dedicated to helping others grow in confidence, lead with character, and develop those around them.\nGuided by his mission to Love, Train. Coach and Empower, John creates practical learning experiences that inspire growth and drive lasting change. His vision is to energize the leader within others and help create a legacy of leadership. Through listening, service, accountability, and unwavering integrity, he helps individuals and organizations unlock their potential and transform learning into action.\nJohn is also the founder of The Noble Leader, LLC, a leadership development, coaching, speaking, and business advisory firm focused on helping business owners and leaders solve the challenges that prevent growth and profitability. As a John Maxwell Certified Team Member, with over 24 years of experience in the insurance industry in sales, service, leadership development, and team performance, John has become a trusted coach, trainer, speaker, and advisor. His passion is helping business owners strengthen leadership, increase sales performance, improve customer experience, and build high-performing teams that drive sustainable success.\nSHOW SUMMARY\n\nIn this episode of the Authentic Sales Manager Podcast, host Harry Spaight sits down with John Noble (a 25-year sales leadership veteran) to unpack what an authentic leader actually does when the numbers look bad. John breaks down his foundational mantra—Love, Train, Coach, Empower—and tells the story of taking over a dead-last sales team of 11 people and transforming them into the #1 and #2 ranked teams in a 40,000-person company without mentioning numbers for the first three weeks! They also explore the difference between checking for understanding versus checking for execution, his 4-question nightly journaling routine, and why recognition only lands if it's delivered in the language a rep receives.\n\nKEY TAKEAWAYS\nThe Skill vs....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3o1JSi5YPdTgam9tDK790T9gzdZSCoOd1bGJ8lZ6TxU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hNjFl/ZTkyZjhhODJiZTRm/NjNlMzNlNjE3YWI3/NjcxZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}