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5 Key Pillars of Effective Sales Performance Management

The Spiff Blog

These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. Incentive alignment : Shared goals enable the design of incentive structures that motivate sales reps while aligning with the broader success of the organization.

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Unleashing the Power of Frontline Sales Management, Part 3: Institutionalizing Sales Management

Sales and Marketing Management

They set clear objectives for manager-rep interactions, and they use a consistent set of leading indicators that drive the right activities. For instance, if a sales manager is responsible for 10 sales reps, each of whom is charged with bringing in $1 million in sales, the manager’s target should be tied to the team’s $10 million objective.

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Presidents Club Winner…NOT

Steven Rosen

Many companies I work with tie their program to sales vs. objectives. It is much easier to show big percentage increase over a smaller base of business in comparison to a large base of business. Conclusion: When designing your sales “Top Performer” incentive program, it is critical that your plan is fair and equitable.

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Are Women in Sales Less Trainable?

Understanding the Sales Force

Objective Management Group recently evaluated a sales force of 24 women. When either of those elements is found to be lacking, the salesperson will not have enough incentive to change. Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Before I get into trouble for the title of this blog, let me 1.) explain from where it comes and 2.)

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Bridging the Gap Between Sales and Finance

Xactly

If your company takes the initiative and automates their incentives and commissions process, you’ll easily remedy the main point of contention between Sales and Finance and bring your organisation closer together as a whole. A commission plan with too many incentives is sure to end badly. Reason 1: Plans and Afterthoughts.

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How to Set Sales Pay Levels in 5 Easy Steps

Xactly

Target incentive for employees on a sales or local incentive (excluding employees on the annual management incentive plan) was around $222.7M Add base salaries amounts to the target incentives and the percentage to revenue jumps to 4.8 percent of revenue. That is some serious cash!

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How to Build a Sales Process: The Complete Guide

Nutshell

Your steps may vary based on your industry and how thorough your process needs to be to secure leads, but in general, you’ll want to have strategies for each of these moments in the sales funnel: Prospecting Qualifying Developing rapport Presenting solutions Handling objections Closing the sale Following up 1.