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How Sales Leaders Can Motivate Younger Employees Through Purpose-Driven Incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Perhaps especially while the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on popular incentives among this demographic like travel, sales leaders can improve their incentives programs for younger employees by embedding a sense of purpose into their sales outreach. . Sometimes, the best incentive is the work itself.

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How Sales Leaders Can Motivate Younger Employees through Purpose-Driven Incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Perhaps especially while the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a temporary hold on popular incentives like travel among this demographic, sales leaders can improve their incentive programs for younger employees by embedding a sense of purpose into their sales outreach. Sometimes, the best incentive is the work itself.

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X Factor Compensation Leaders: How to Be Incredible at Incentive Planning (Nuance Communications)

Xactly

Ultimately, the new compensation and incentive plans must successfully motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. After close to a year, we decided that Express was not flexible enough to handle our complex plans and increasing number of reps, so we decided to implement Xactly Incent in 2015.

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How Not to Become the Next Wells Fargo

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-11-01. Teaser: The bank’s pressure-packed sales environment and poorly structured incentive program led to disaster. We review what went wrong and how to properly use incentives to drive performance. We review what went wrong and how to properly use incentives to drive performance.

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Sales Incentive Optimization

OpenSymmetry

The Journey to Sales Incentive Optimization. The recent e-Reward conference in London (May 12 2016) had a number of important messages for the Compensation and Benefits community. Be more strategic about incentives design, think more broadly about what will motivate and retain salespeople. Sales Incentive Design.

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How to Influence the C-Suite

Janek Performance Group

The first book was the classic Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Executives are inherently narrowly focused because they have both a responsibility and financial incentive. Understanding what they want and why they want it will change how sales professionals communicate with executives.

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Sales Tips: How to Step Up Your Prospecting for 2016

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: How to Step Up Your Prospecting for 2016. After completing this one-day Work Session, students will: Learn how to develop and execute a Prospecting and Business Development Plan that will help them build their pipeline to optimum strength and achieve 2016 quota. Want to pump the pipeline for success in 2016?