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How to be Indispensable as an Incentive Compensation Manager

The Spiff Blog

As an incentive compensation manager, you hold a critical role that keeps your organization running. In this day and age, no one doubts the importance of sales compensation when it comes to driving growth for a business. What does an incentive compensation manager do? The same goes for your relationships with sales leadership.

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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve.

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On Forecast Accuracy

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been having a fascinating discussion on forecasting and forecast accuracy. While we will never be perfectly predictive, we can get better than the current forecast discussions as illustrated below: Manager: “What’s your forecast for the quarter?” Related Posts: What About The Forecast?

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Your Forecast Is Not About The Numbers!

Partners in Excellence

Imagine you are a VP of Sales. You justify hiring and onboarding 100 new sales people over the next two quarters. You work with your VP of HR to find and hire those 100 sales people. I wasn’t able to find the right sales people, but we’ve hired 100 SEs. We don’t need 100 people, we need 100 sales people!”

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5 Steps to a Competitive Sales Incentive Plan

Xactly

Compensation drives sales behavior, which means your sales incentive plan is a critical factor in sales performance and objective achievement. The incentive compensation planning team faces the challenge of balancing executive priorities and designing incentives that motivate reps. Set the Foundation.

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Improve Sales Forecasting to Improve Sales Performance?

Anthony Cole Training

Yes, the title, "Improve Sales Forecasting to Improve Sales Performance?" It remains a question despite the millions of dollars spent on CRM, sales force automation, training and hype. And, because of these problems, there are challenges in the predictability of future sales. is a question. A couple of things.

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Hitting the Forecasting Bullseye with Machine Learning

InsightSquared

Your forecast is just a number. Just a number implies that your forecast holds no real value — no purpose behind it. Forecasting is all about precision. The closer your forecast aligns to actual earnings, the more efficient and effective your organization runs. The Common Sales Forecasting Misconception.