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Thinking About Sales Performance — That Is Sales Management Incompetence

Partners in Excellence

I was just reading their newly released 2018-2019 Sales Performance Report. Performance Level 1. Performance Level 2. Performance Level 3. The Performance Levels represent the “bell curve” of sales organizational performance. Performance Level 1 represents 20.8%

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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. The Example Salespeople (anyone, with any title, whose primary role is selling) don’t know about their own skill gaps and blind spots. A lot of people don’t know what they don’t know about sales.

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Apple Fritters and the 10 Keys to a Successful Sales Transformation

Understanding the Sales Force

My wife is a gourmet cook and her food is better tasting and healthier than what the best restaurants serve, so it’s OK that I’m useless and incompetent at cooking and baking. And that, somehow, leads me to sales performance. On the bright side, I do know how to use the microwave oven! I was lucky.

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Who to Promote to Sales Management

Janek Performance Group

Sales are up and it’s time to expand the sales department. But before you do, you need to find a new sales manager to support the additional sales reps. Peter was your first business development rep hired in the sales department. Why do companies promote the wrong person to sales management?

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“The Customer Is Incompetent!”

Partners in Excellence

” It was, apparently, validation for that sales person’s position. ” It was, apparently, validation for that sales person’s position. Naturally, statements like these provoke the question, “What is it about that person’s behavior that causes you to draw that conclusion?”

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Why CEOs/Presidents Tolerate Ineffective Sales Management

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan One of the comments on my article, The Validiation of the Sales Assessment Validation , mentioned the reluctance of CEOs and Presidents to redeploy or terminate ineffective sales managers. Lack of overall sales performance is an easily recognized problem.

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7 “Innocent” Habits Of Failing Sales Directors

MTD Sales Training

Sales Directors and Sales Managers rarely get to their positions simply through loyalty or length of time served. They’ve most likely been in the sales world themselves and been an excellent sales person. But this doesn’t mean they will necessarily make it as a manager or director of business.

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