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10 Incentive Travel Facts You Can Put To Good Use

Sales and Marketing Management

The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), a private not-for-profit foundation that focuses its initiatives on pragmatic research highlighting the premise and the power of incentive and motivational programs, issued a list of 10 incentive travel facts to commemorate Global Meetings Industry Day. 38 percent of all U.S.

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Will These 6 Tests Save 2013’s Sales Compensation Plan?

SBI Growth

Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. But wait – this new incentive compensation plan could flop. That would make 2013 worse than this year! So, he commissioned HR to design a new incentive compensation plan (IC Plan.) Will a focus on training and coaching be undermined?

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Consultative Selling, Commitment and Training - Like Oil & Water

Understanding the Sales Force

So why didn''t the training on consultative selling stick? That same finding is used to determine how quickly a new salesperson will ramp up and apply what they learned from training. When you provide sales training, it''s not just new skills that you ask people to learn. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan'

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Sales Leadership: 2013 Sales Theme

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership: 2013 Sales Theme. At this time of the year everyone is working on your sales business plans for 2013 and finishing budgets and forecasts. It may appear on your internal letterhead, made into a banner and hung in your sales area and used to reinforce your training programs.

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New Product? Don’t Forget to Update the Sales Compensation Plan

SBI Growth

Congratulations, your organization is launching a new product in 2013! Organizing and scheduling product training sessions. So how do we incent this behavior? When designing the quota for 2013 sales reps, incorporate the new product into the compensation plan. Revising or building a new sales process to enable sales reps.

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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

Companies are spending more money on sales force evaluations, sales training, consulting, sales leadership development, sales process, infrastructure and sales recruiting services than 5 years ago. Quizzes by Quibblo.com (c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' There are probably twice as many books on the subject than just 10 years ago.

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Top 20 Reasons Why Sales Managers Suck at Coaching

Understanding the Sales Force

Skills - They have not been trained in the fine art and science of sales coaching. Motivation - They don''t have the incentive (compensation) to justify the effort. c) Copyright 2013 Dave Kurlan' Here are my top 19 reasons and I left #20 open so that you could add your two-cents worth. Ego - They know that they know everything.

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