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The 10-Point Strategy for Leading Sales Teams in a Recession

Sales Hacker

Smart companies know that such top talent is extremely valuable in a recession and they will do their best to poach them from you. Remember: Recessions should not be an excuse to cut away at your talent. It should be a chance to strengthen your team and create immense loyalty in them.

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Overloaded And Overwhelmed

Partners in Excellence

In some cases, smart companies re-engineered a lot of what they did, slimming things down and doing what they could to eliminate unnecessary workloads. Refocusing myself, getting back to this article took a few seconds. We cut headcount viscioulsly (and probably appropriately), but much of the work didn’t disappear.