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Pre-Boarding Ideas for New Hires

The Center for Sales Strategy

Years ago, companies gave little to no thought to pre-boarding — engaging with a new hire between the time they accept your offer and their first day. Once a candidate was hired, they were given a firm handshake and a start date.

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Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

No More Cold Calling

Above all, your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople—your account executives and everyone on your sales team—so they can do what they were hired to do: Sell! How many times has one of our sales managers read a book or spoken to a guru, and suddenly the entire organization was taking a new direction?

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8 Essential Elements of Virtual Sales Training

Allego

These tools leverage mobile, pre-recorded video, and peer-to-peer networking to enable managers and reps to sync up on their own time—from any location. Start by finding out whether salespeople and their managers have the same expectations about coaching given today’s “new normal.” 6: Pre-Board New Hires.

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Taking the Lead: Why Q4 Is the Time for Small Businesses to Get Aggressive

Sales and Marketing Management

Following the 2008 recession, it took larger companies an average of four years to recover their pre-recession level of GDP , while smaller companies took six years. Planned marketing hiring has dropped to its lowest point, going negative for the first time since the survey began in 2008, with average hiring estimated to be -3.5%

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Sales Onboarding Cheat Sheet: 11 Ideas to Transform Your Strategy

SBI

Sales Onboarding Cheat Sheet: 11 Ideas to Transform Your Strategy. Onboarding is a universal challenge for sales organizations – every company hires salespeople and needs to do something to prepare them to sell. Restricted Content / Members Only. Please Login or Register to view all the content.

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Which Sales Basics Do You Need to Improve?

SalesFuel

The higher quality of pre-call research you do, the more confident the buyer will be in your solution. Many of us cringe at the idea of talking about ourselves…" writes Maura Walters for Inc. "… [we] or assume interacting with strangers is something only extroverts are good at." But you must know your stuff. And again, mindset helps.

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10 Sales training ideas that increase team readiness

BrainShark

Many organizations’ sales training has grown stale by relying on old-school tactics, like on-site boot camps and long-winded presentations, causing information overload for new reps. But before we dive into sales training ideas, let’s clarify what we mean when we talk about sales training.