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Key to Significantly Improve Sales Training Results

Understanding the Sales Force

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. If we translate all of that baseball to selling, the only two things that change are the activity and the age of the people being coached and trained.

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How you manage makes a difference

Sales and Marketing Management

You can build a great brand in your territory that differentiates you from the competition just by treating your reps with respect and recognizing their efforts. What sales managers can do, part II: Be careful with peer comparisons. What you do and say will end up impacting your customers by way of your reps. it backfires on you.

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A 2026 excursion to the future of sales training

Sales Training Connection

Sales Training – 2026. As a way of exploring the future of sales training, let’s time travel to the year 2026 and examine the major trends of the day. The presentation was developed as a comparison to what is happening in 2026 versus ten years earlier in 2016. Let’s tune in and listen to what Dr. Beckett has to say.

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How HR Can Help Sales Attract Top Talent - Beyond the Obvious

SBI Growth

Every top performer has experienced the dreaded year-end “opportunity drop,” which from the rep’s point of view includes: The most rewarding territories are “re-balanced’ (split up). Management changes – another new boss to train. What opportunity (accounts, industry or geography) does the new territory hold?

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Drinking Our Own Champagne: How Xactly Insights Data Improves Sales Performance Analysis

Xactly

Are we assigning effective territories? Having a “heads up” on performance dips and issues helps sales leaders retain top talent and improve their sales planning, whether that means reassessing territories , adjusting training and career development, providing more enablement opportunities, or offering additional incentives.

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3 Ways to Optimize Sales Performance and Be Ready for the Coming Boom

Sell Integrity

Here’s what he said: Be Ready for Virtual Sales Performance: As Bruce explains, this is a territory coverage play. Product knowledge and selling skills, by comparison, are much less predictive of sales success. And yet…few of them say they’re providing much training — if any — on these key sales success drivers.

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How to Identify your Team’s Most Effective Prospectors

LeadIQ

TL;DR: Measuring a prospector’s effectiveness requires a comprehensive, qualitative comparison of each person in the team. Valuable leads are handed to the wrong SDRs, needed training goes unnoticed, marketing adjustments are missed, and sales productivity remains low. . The question is, what numbers do you look at?