Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 3, 2024

Dennis Connelly, Derek Baer and I were sharing our experiences coaching salespeople, sales managers and sales leaders, and comparing those who were and weren’t coachable. The data from Objective Management Group’s (OMG) assessment of 2.5 It wasn’t personal.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Invariably, each drive back home has taken twice the time it should have because of road construction. 4 traffic delays because of road construction delayed us for another 2 and 1/2 hours. Nearly every coaching call with a sales manager is about a salesperson with a delayed closing. Delays, delays, delays.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 17, 2013

Then why is their validation of choice "construct validity" rather than "predictive validity"? There is only one original, sales-specific assessment that collects, measures, and provides true sales findings and its predictive validity is incomparable. You also need a best-practices, sales recruiting process. No apologies.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 22, 2014

With all of that information about their past, how can you possibly gauge potential when hiring for your sales force? Objective Management Group (OMG) has three candidate assessments that provide companies with exactly that for sales, sales management, and sales leadership (VP/Sales Director).

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 11, 2014

Apparently, back in the 1920''s, the Salem Chamber of Commerce recruited dozens of business leaders to raise $500,000 in one week for the construction of the hotel. Here''s to a world with better sales processes, good-fit people and intelligent use of the tools available to us.". It was fascinating! Join the discussion.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 20, 2012

But p ersonality assessments and behavioral styles assessments are not predictive of sales performance. Instead, they conduct construct validity studies, which only show to what extent an assessment measures a specific trait and not necessarily the traits which you want to know about, but the traits which they can actually measure.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The oldest company in the USA is a plantation founded in 1613, while the oldest company in the world is a Japanese construction company founded more than 1,400 years ago. That is exactly how and when sales managers should provide coaching to their salespeople. I have written dozens of articles about coaching salespeople.

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