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25 Sales Experts on the Importance of Coaching Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone. Sales Managers don’t want to coach because it takes away from personal sales.

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The Data: What Percentage of Salespeople are Really Coachable?

Understanding the Sales Force

Dennis Connelly, Derek Baer and I were sharing our experiences coaching salespeople, sales managers and sales leaders, and comparing those who were and weren’t coachable. The data from Objective Management Group’s (OMG) assessment of 2.5 It wasn’t personal.

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Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Understanding the Sales Force

With all that, shouldn''t the quality of sales, sales management and sales leadership candidates be on the rise? The darker dotted line is the trend for the percentage of sales management candidates that were recommended by Objective Management Group for the same time period. Yes, it should.

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5 Tips for Designing Successful Sales Incentive Compensation Plans

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Few leading indicators are more predictive of a company’s future sales performance than its incentive compensation plans. While multiple factors influence the effectiveness of your sales incentive compensation plans, 5 tips stand out: 1. Creating incentive programs that work require balancing multiple design choices.

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How to Fuel Explosive Revenue Growth with Kick-ass Sales Incentives

Sales Hacker

If you’re looking to get a little extra from your revenue team, examining your sales incentives program is a great place to start. . An effective sales incentive program is not just the fuel to drive your revenue team. Why It Matters to Invest in Sales Incentives R ight N ow.

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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

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. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it.

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7 Sales Leadership Rules for New Sales Managers

Janek Performance Group

If you are in sales, you likely see yourself as a leader. If you are a sales manager, you must be a leader. But if sales management is a new role for you, it can feel like you are swimming upstream. First Rule of Sales Leadership: Know Your Purpose . What is that purpose of a new sales manager?