The Spiff Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Throughout history, you see the best soldiers promoted to captains, the best athletes promoted to coaches, the best students promoted to teachers, and the list goes on and on. This individual more or less had complete control over their success, and therefore, they also had complete control over their sales compensation.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Building a compensation structure that works for both salespeople and the company. Building a compensation structure that works for both salespeople and the company. Best practices for designing compensation structure [07:00].

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Steven Rosen

AUGUST 26, 2021

Have You Built Your Coaching Plan? Sales coaching is the #1 sales management activity that drives sales performance. Many managers look at coaching as just another “to-do” item on their task list. In fact, coaching is the most important activity in which one must allocate time. You only have so much time.

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Allego

MAY 18, 2021

How are you adapting your virtual sales coaching to ensure reps can close deals when they can’t meet with buyers in person? After all, missing the mark on training means missing revenue targets too. Allego, the leader in sales enablement and learning technology, wanted to better understand how remote work has changed sales coaching.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This post will help you test a redesigned sales compensation plan to ensure cultural fit. Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. HR even brought in an expert compensation firm. But wait – this new incentive compensation plan could flop. That would make 2013 worse than this year!

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Before we discuss how to improve sales training, a quick promo for the latest and greatest taking place over at the ever improving Top Sales World. For the last 6 years I have been coaching and/or managing youth baseball teams and personally coaching our son since he could stand.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 3, 2023

In sales, the terms “manager” and “coach” are common titles. In actual practice, however, sales managers and coaches may or may not be the same person. This can help organizations get the most from their sales managers, sales coaches, and, ultimately, their sales teams. Seeking and enlisting sales training partners.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

Why are Sales Compensation Plans Important. Building sales compensation plans for them can be a difficult task. There are several factors to consider when putting a sales compensation plan together. That turnover costs money in time and training, so make a winning comp plan from the beginning. Because guess what?

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? Sales managers and their reporting reps will have responsibilities in their roles, which means your compensation plans should be tailored to different roles. Constructing Commissions in a Sales Manager Compensation Plan. Plan Components.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 28, 2019

In a recent survey by D2L , an online survey company, 64% of men said that they received access to training resources, while only 48% of women said they did. Really the percentage should be 100% for both genders, but it’s telling that female sales reps feel short-changed on training more often than men do. Consider your company.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Coaching their salespeople becomes a scenario of the blind leading the blind. Sales Managers (salespeople report to them) are not only unaware of their own shortcomings, but have no clue about the sales-specific weaknesses of their salespeople.

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Sales Compensation + Sales Strategy. Sales compensation systems and sales strategy have long been established factors that impact sales performance. The Boston Consulting Group published the results of an interesting research article on this odd couple entitled Paying for Performance – Aligning Sales Compensation and Strategy.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2013

We discussed why only 17% of all sales managers are effective at coaching and the conversation was very enlightening. So why aren''t more sales managers effective at coaching salespeople? Modeling - They did not report to a sales manager who was effective at coaching. Time - They don''t invest enough time in coaching.

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Membrain

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Most sales trainers and coaches have at least some familiarity with the topics of productivity, motivation, and psychology. Chasing states of optimal productivity, managers may invest in software, process development, and training.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 29, 2021

Now more than ever it is important to have some sales training ideas to engage the remote or home based salesperson. Salespeople now have to figure out how they can adapt to rapidly changing selling conditions, and sales training must match those challenges. The Importance of Sales Training. Sales Training Ideas to Try.

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Xactly

JULY 5, 2018

When it comes to sales compensation planning, you can never start prepping too early, right? Sales managers and their reporting reps will have responsibilities unique to their roles, which means your compensation plans should be tailored to different roles. Things to Consider in Compensation for Sales Management: Find your Leaders.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many companies tend to underestimate the importance of guidance, training, and support for their new hires, and that tends to be detrimental. Best Practices During the Sales Onboarding Process 1) Invest time and effort into training This is probably the most obvious aspect of onboarding, but also arguably the most important one.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 25, 2017

I always worry when a conversation with a sales executive starts with, “We need to fix our compensation problem.” ” The ensuing discussion usually focuses on, “We aren’t meeting our numbers, we need to fix the compensation/commission system in order to make our numbers.”

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Mindtickle

MAY 29, 2020

28%…that’s how much you can improve revenues through effective sales coaching. Managing productive sellers working out of home or remote offices is not a new concept, but how you approach the art and science of coaching must if you’re to develop and maintain productive sales activity that has shifted entirely online.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. Henry Ford once said, “The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.”

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 11, 2024

She has been a very willing coach, helping me think and execute at higher levels. I loved being compensated well for my efforts. To create materials and training programs that would help salespeople shorten time to revenue. Preface : Jill Konrath is one of the most well respected author, speaker, teacher on all things selling.

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Xvoyant

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The availability of data has created an expectation that salespeople will use this for “coaching” purposes to help a higher percentage of salespeople achieve quota. A 2005 Salesperson valued compensation above all else. Today, the Millennial worker values development and training as the top consideration for joining a company.

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Highspot

JULY 18, 2023

It’s essential that you clearly map out every step your sales team needs to take between the onset of a sales training program and its completion. We know that effective sales training has a positive impact, but how do you know you’ve locked in on the right approach?

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Engage Selling

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Today I dispel the key myths about compensating sales professionals and discuss the importance of understanding what motivates each individual on your team. Today I dispel the key myths about compensating sales professionals and discuss the importance of understanding what motivates each individual on your team.

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It shouldn’t be surprising that we spend a lot of time training sales teams and coaching the sales team leaders. Here are five elements that must be considered before any money is spent on sales training. Can sales training be embedded into a repeatable selling system and process within your CRM?

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Appbuddy

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Let’s dive into how you can attract, coach, and retain top sales talent. Offer a competitive compensation package. But a poor compensation package will cost you more in the long run. Find out what competitors are paying to make sure your compensation package is on par. Coach top sales talent.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

Mostly, if managers are coaching performance at all, it’s tactically oriented; how do we win this deal, how do we fill the pipeline, what are you doing in this next call… ? Related Posts: I Just Don't Have Time To Coach! A Crisis In People… Compensation Drives Sales Behavior?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 27, 2019

Companies with consistently excellent sales management performance define a specific set of criteria around leadership, coaching, and other people management skills that they seek in candidates for sales management roles. Provide meaningful training. Implement a cadence of coaching and feedback for sales managers.

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Xactly

JANUARY 2, 2019

The sales planning process can become quite complex, especially when it comes to designing sales compensation plans. Ultimately, the new compensation and incentive plans must successfully motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. Time in sales compensation: 4 years. Who: Robert Walters.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Sales ramp-up time can be costly, considering how much training and coaching is required to get new reps up to speed. For one, insufficient training won’t create effective salespeople. Are all their training resources accessible in a centralized location? Prioritize interactive training.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2022

We do this through hiring the right people, training, giving them tools/processes/programs/systems to help them perform, providing the right support, eliminating barriers to their performance, and constantly coaching/developing them. And then we get to compensation. Fixing The Compensation Problem.".

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

From sales force training and compensation to investments in sales processes and technology, organizations relentlessly seek to pull the right levers that will drive revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. Very few had formal, repeated sales manager training programs.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 25, 2021

Designing sales compensation and recognition programs. My boss would insist I sign up for an annual leadership course offered by either the AMA or other well-known training organizations. I know my action plans lasted until I got back to my desk and found 400 emails waiting and a packed week of meetings following my training.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. It seems that every week we are being told that sales training is not working in a very high percentage of cases – 85-90% was one statistic I read just yesterday. JF Corporation.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Recruitment and Training Building a competent, successful sales team is crucial. Managers are involved in recruiting, sales coaching and training, and onboarding new sales representatives. Incentives, training, engagement, and process strategies are proven to work based on the motivation and urgency they drive upon sellers.

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

In this video, I’m going to show you some top sales management training tips on this concept. One of the most important sales management training ideas is the concept of putting a product in place that essentially sells itself in some ways. Aligning incentives is the backbone of any successful sales management training initiative.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 2, 2022

Of course, compensation is important. Sales Coaching. One of the best ways to ensure sales success is regular coaching. For best results, this should be a mixture of both group coaching and one-on-one sessions. Critical to all coaching is assessment and goal setting. This makes one-on-one coaching so critical.

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