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The True Cost Components of Sales Talent Attrition

SBI Growth

SBI wanted to help leaders assess the cost of sales rep turnover with greater accuracy and determine the best talent strategy for their businesses—build versus buy. We previously released a tool, the Turnover Calculator , which evaluates the total cost of replacing a sales rep with either an internal or external hire.

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Great Sales Talent is Only a Few Clicks Away

SBI Growth

Sales and HR leaders face a common challenge – sourcing top sales talent. This post answers the question, “How do I consistently find top sales talent ?" It will turbocharge your sales recruiting program by leveraging ‘social listening.’ Top sales talent can best be reached through a personal connection. ‘A’

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Are You Any Good at Evaluating Sales Talent?

Understanding the Sales Force

In baseball, they call it the 5-tool player. They have all of the tools. In sales, managers can evaluate soft skills, like the ones I listed in the first paragraph, but not strategic and tactical skills, and not sales DNA, their sales makeup, and how that will translate to performance at their company and in a specific role.

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Sales Talent Is A Problem, Is It Worth Solving?

Partners in Excellence

Sales Talent Is A Problem, Is it Worth Solving , by the folks at CSO Insights. ” The article presents a few points of view that reinforce that. How do we reduce the variability in sales people and what they do, creating the lowest cost ability to acquire customers. I just read a provocative post.

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Sales Talent Enablement Program: Design a High-Performing One

LeadFuze

Sales talent enablement is also a hot topic in many workplace environments, and there seem to be many inclusion initiatives to help diversify the job market. I†ve worked on a lot of sales talent enablement projects over the years, and I know what it takes to make sure they are successful. Role-Specific Acumen.

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Leadership Development in the New Millennium

Steven Rosen

As I prepared to write this article, I found a very insightful article at Forbes.com, “The #1 Reason why Leadership Development Fails ” by Matt Myatt. An ideal investment in sales manager development may look like this: 10% pre and post-assessment. 10% on providing pull through tools. What is the alternative?

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The Future of Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan My vision, of how the future of selling is shaping up, appears in today''s (the December 18, 2013) issue of Top Sales Magazine. After you have read the article, please contribute your comments, suggestions, visions, rebuttals and opinions which are all welcome right here.