Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When considering in-house or outsourced sales training, the question is not, “which method is better?” This question requires leadership to determine which sales problem they are trying to solve. Not every company is a good fit for partnering with a sales training organization. The In-House Sales Training Model.

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Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Many of the sales training coaching programs focus on bad sales talents or sales skills (what people do not do well) instead of good talents (what people do well). For example, what are the first three (3) words most babies speak? Don’t speak to strangers.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Training or Individual Development Plans that go unfinished or without progress. These bullets, by the way, are great indicators for Sales Management to step in when first known in order to take Reps out of this risk category. Determine the Rep’s ability to evolve by looking at what training they have completed or even requested.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Remember, the goal is to shift sales tactics off your plate to lift your strategic focus. For example, you set a goal to spend 15 hours per week in the sales bucket. Perhaps your sales leader isn’t good enough. Help prevent thrashing early on by providing them with focused training. Look for areas of imbalance.

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The Digital Sales Institute

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This is our list of sales skills with examples to give a glimpse of what it takes to be successful in selling today. This leads on to questions such as what sales skills are required for each step or stage? Increasingly, it takes specialized sales expertise to beat the competition. List of Sales Skills with Examples.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. The Example Salespeople (anyone, with any title, whose primary role is selling) don’t know about their own skill gaps and blind spots. We didn’t know what we didn’t know.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 9, 2022

Recruiting and hiring future sales reps for your organization requires a different criterion than it did in the past. Do you believe in the mantra, “Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill?” But with the right attitude, employees can be trained to develop the sales skills they need to be successful.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

For example: Do we have a lead generation strategy in place, and what does that really look like? If you’re unsure of what questions you need to ask yourself about your ideal candidate, here are some examples: Why am I hiring? For example: Complexity of the deal. For example, an average of 7.5 Who do I need now?

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Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 15, 2019

For example, they may have inherited the account from someone who built a strong relationship and “farmed” it well or have a strong territory assignment. Here are four steps to take to find the hidden sales talent among your current sales force. Take the Sales Performance Meter. Take the Sales Performance Meter.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

While sales is undoubtedly the lifeblood of any organization, the thought of implementing a successful sales training program is enough to give even the strongest business leader pause. There’s clearly a gap between perceived and actual ROI when it comes to sales training, with good money being spent on ineffective practices.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 20, 2021

Soft skills sales training is becoming just as important as the hard skills training, we are most familiar with in the world of training. We know we live in unprecedented times but most of all, when it comes to the sales profession, these are times of profound change. Soft Skills Sales Training Checklist.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 25% Increase in Sales Training ROI – Sales eXchange – 115. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Hiring Sales Talent , Proactive , Proactivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales eXchange , execution. Given that, why train them?

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 27, 2014

For those who think that Desire and Commitment are enough, and for those who think that strong sales people will succeed even without Desire or Commitment, and for those who wonder how OMG''s Sales Candidate Assessments can be so predictive, this story is a great example.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 10, 2013

This post is for small business CEOs struggling to hire top sales talent. ACETECH is a non-profit organization helping train and mentor CEOs of technology companies. ~75 I’m conducting a workshop on SBI’s Topgrading for Sales methodology. It validates our research that finding top sales talent is priority #1 for CEOs.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. The Pipeline Guest Post – Jonathan Farrington. take over again and the reactive mindset returns.

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Did you know that by 2025, 80 percent of B2B sale s interactions between buyers and sellers are predicted to happen virtually? That’s how fast the remote sales landscape is evolving. Virtual sales teams allow organizations to optimize costs, hire the best sales talent worldwide, and engage with prospects in different time zones.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you consider sales training to be the first of several steps toward boosting profits, it’s easy to see why it’s such a crucial investment. Sales training lays the foundation for future revenues by increasing your team’s satisfaction, loyalty and competence, all of which improve their interaction with the customer.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

These are the skills your sales team needs to survive. If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. A unique tension exists in the transition from individual salesperson to sales manager that can lead to ineffective coaching. Training by inquiry is more personal.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Regardless of whether you are an experienced sales manager or a brand-new hiring manager, this article will help you in your search for superstar sales talent. The myth of a perfect salesperson is something many sales managers pursue because the need for high-performing sales reps is greater than ever.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Help me understand your approach to our particular vertical markets and examples of net new name business won. How would you expect a sales team to motivate themselves? How would you go about recruiting great sales talent ? How do you evaluate a person’s sales skills, other than the results they achieve?

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SBI

MARCH 19, 2019

3 Ways to Retain Top Talent with Sales Readiness. Finding the right sales talent isn’t easy – but even when you hire the perfect candidate, keeping them for the long-term can be a whole different challenge. Here are 3 ways sales readiness can help you retain top talent. #1: 1: Make onboarding agile.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. A few recent examples: Selling to the C Suite. The Death of Event-Based Training. Each of these articles focuses on your sales reps. Effective ways to enable your sales reps to make the number. Why Sales Managers Fail.

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The Pipeline

JULY 22, 2013

Dictionary.com , defines a paraprofessional as “a person trained to assist a doctor, lawyer, teacher, or other professional, but not licensed to practice in the profession.” In certain instances one can turn to a paralegal to get the job done without the price tag of hiring a lawyer, simple filings, traffic court are a couple of examples.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 27, 2013

We’ve seen this occur especially in Sales talent/recruiting efforts. Instead, agree to give quick compliance reviews to any pending Sales projects. More Sales complaints we’ve witnessed: Can’t engage a world-class external training program. HR doesn’t always take time to proactively partner with Sales on strategy.

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Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 12, 2019

More than 80% of sales leaders believe they don’t have the right talent to succeed in the future, according to CSO Insights’ 2018 Sales Talent Study—a talent gap that’s disrupting most sales organizations. We suggest adopting the following: Use digital training modalities to reduce travel expenses.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 10, 2013

You''ve seen this before: a sales leader makes an urgent call to the HR business partner. Or, the sales talent isn’t ready to handle a sudden competitive threat. This post will help sales leaders Make the Number with the help of their HR partners. The two examples below illustrate the stark contrast: Robert the Reactor.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And the sales department is not immune to this phenomenon. To reach your sales goals in 2022 preventing a sales talent exodus is critical. In this article we will explore what the Great Resignation is, how it will impact sales departments, and what you can do about it now. According to the U.S.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For football, basketball, and sales teams, superstars will always be in high demand. For sales leaders, the challenge is twofold: finding top sales talent and coaching high performers to expand their capabilities. It sounds like this: “I’ve been in sales for two years and the top rep at my current company.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 5, 2023

Demand for high-performing sales talent increases in a downturn because their value increases. Improving sales talent in a downturn leaves CEOs with two options: Go into the market and upgrade their sales talent or get serious about training and developing the current sales team.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Sales training 101 teaches that you must always maintain eye contact with the prospect during a sales interaction. In fact, there are three times during the sale when you do NOT want to look the prospect in the eyes. As an example, you have two sales people in the presentation, one senior who is training the novice.

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Highspot

JANUARY 10, 2020

Take, for instance, sales proficiency metrics. Sales proficiency encompasses many areas including onboarding, training, coaching, and sales talent acquisition and retention. Without a strong foundation beginning with onboarding , companies jeopardize the potential of their talent.

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Sell Integrity

JANUARY 28, 2021

Hiring, training and severance and bonus packages all figure into the hard-dollar costs. firms spend $15 billion a year training salespeople and another $800 billion on incentives. In the meantime, the sales manager has to invest time in helping that new hire get ramped up. Profitability finally comes around month 21.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Like most things in life, hiring sales talent is a matter of timing. Especially since the best candidates with strong sales skills are usually snatched up within 10 days. Unfortunately, you generally need skilled talent more than they need you. Do: Move quickly to hire sales talent — empty seats mean lost revenue.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In today’s post, I'm going to give you step-by-step details on how to onboard sales talent with success. In fact: these are strategies that we’ve used and seen others use to turn people with no sales background into some of the best in the industry. CRM training can make or break any organization.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 28, 2020

Sales organizations are using data-driven insights in just about every aspect of their business. Sales Organizations Need to Equip Sellers With New Skills. In our 2018 Sales Talent Study , we found that 84% of sales leaders don’t think they have the sales talent to succeed in the future.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 18, 2020

After that, it’s sales reps’ responsibility to get those materials into those customers’ hands. For example, if you design and sell HCM software, HR directors and COOs would be key personas with notable needs such as more efficient open enrollment processes and a better-performing employee portal.

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Gong.io

JULY 25, 2022

One answer to this question is the Sandler pain funnel, a method of establishing need and urgency with prospects that feels more like a consultative interview than it does a sales pitch. In this guide, we’ll explain how the Sandler pain funnel works and illustrate the sales methodology in practice with an in-depth example.

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