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The Secret to Sales Rep Motivation

Steven Rosen

The answer that traditional sales leaders have used in the past is to throw more money at their team to drive performance. The researchers at MIT in a 2005 study for the Federal Reserve Bank concluded that : As long as the task involved only mechanical skills, bonuses and rewards work. Coaching works from the inside out.

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Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind

Understanding the Sales Force

Those are the exact same issues we have identified in the 10,000 companies whose sales forces we have evaluated - the companies where 91% did not have sales processes! In 2005 I wrote the book Baseline Selling and it contains both the Baseline Selling sales process and the Baseline Selling sales methodology.

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Rejection - Why it is the #1 Enemy in Modern Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

Today, prospects are much less inclined to take a salesperson''s call, return a voicemail or an email message, engage in a conversation, schedule a call or meeting, share important information, return calls to salespeople towards the end of the sales process or make a decision. The increasing likelihood of a sale. No problem.

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How To Win On The Front Line Using Strategy, Sun Tzu and Sales Readiness

Bernadette McClelland

One of those strategies is summed up by this very ‘relevant to 20th century sales leadership behaviour’ statement : “If officers are unaccustomed to rigorous drilling they will be worried and hesitant in battle; if generals are not thoroughly trained they will be inwardly quail when they face the enemy.”.

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Combating Disengagement: What can be done about workers’ lack of interest in their jobs?

Sales and Marketing Management

workers has ranged from a low of 26 percent in 2000 and 2005 to the recent six-month high of 34 percent. Many of the managers, sales coaches and consultants who responded to a query we posted while researching this story said purposeful work is the only way to drive engagement. recession, to the current low of 13 percent.

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Zig Ziglar's Legacy to the Sales World

Understanding the Sales Force

Today, motivational speaking has evolved to include sales and sales management training and coaching, sales consulting, sales force development, sales enablement, sales and sales leadership training and coaching, sales infrastructure and sales architecture.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world. Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales.

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