2016 Incentives Sales Management Study 
Sales Training Connection
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Emma Brudner reported the results of a sales productivity study where sales reps spent only 33% of their time selling. Other studies have reported the figure to be a low as 10%. We have found that many front-line sales managers have only a vague impression of how their sales reps are prioritizing their time.
Xactly
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Management by Objectives, aka MBOs, are goals set for employees to improve overall sales performance, as agreed up on by sales manager and rep. MBOs can be an extremely useful tool in addition to your sales commission structure because they give each rep individual goals to strengthen the overall sales organization.
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Sales Hacker
AUGUST 22, 2019
What can happen when employees are held to unreasonable standards by managers and their behaviors don’t drive the best outcome for the company? In 2016, it was discovered that Wells Fargo employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts — without their customers’ knowledge — to meet sales goals.
The Spiff Blog
MARCH 31, 2023
Recommended reading: How to Run a More Diverse and Inclusive Hiring Experience Lack of Representation A lack of gender diversity on sales teams can perpetuate and feed into the harmful ideals and stereotypes that often prevent women from pursuing sales careers in the first place.
Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 5, 2020
Author: Leeatt Rothschild Sales managers are racing to hit their 2020 goals, which are likely higher than last year’s. It’s no secret that by setting effective sales incentives and pay structures you can dramatically increase your team’s success rate. Treat your sales team. The takeaway here? 18 percent lower.
LeveragePoint
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
In the hands of good sales teams, strong Value Propositions evolve from Flexible Case Studies early in the sales cycle to Customer Value Analyses during a customer evaluation to a Shared Business Case to Buy that helps sales teams speed the time to closing. Here is the clinical study.
Cience
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
As Managing Partner, she leverages her colleagues’ experience in sales process methodology, measurement and metric development, project management, and recruiting to build high performing teams for clients. Those same skills are used to help her B2B technology clients build, expand, and optimize their inside sales teams.
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