Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Sales Leaders (sales managers report to them) are usually the least aware of their sales leadership weaknesses and similarly lack insights into their sales managers and salespeople. 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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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In the fourth quarter, both sellers and buyers have additional incentive to get deals done. As a football coach may pump up the team for the fourth quarter, sales managers can provide extra motivation. Like a gift card to Starbucks, incentives can be the gesture that says it’s pumpkin spice season. Incentivize. Ramp Up Coaching.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

One obvious factor and lever is incentive. I keep hearing, as I have heard throughout my sales career, that incentive drives behaviour, if so why do so many companies (senior sales executives), continue to reward sales people on the price they get, rather than the profit that sales person contributes?

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Steven Rosen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Speak regularly with your fellow executives in marketing and ensure that your company’s sales processes work in tandem with its marketing operations. As an executive, it’s your responsibility to ensure that your sales managers are coaching their reps effectively.

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Xactly

JANUARY 18, 2019

When it comes to designing sales compensation plans , there are many factors that can affect the success of your plan. To help ensure you set your sales team up for success, here are six steps to setup a commission plan. Data is the most important and useful tool for any part of a strategic sales plan.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 9, 2022

Even the most seasoned, effective salespeople can struggle when hashing out how to lead a sales team. Taking the reins doesn't come naturally to everyone, and even born leaders might need a little guidance when transitioning into a sales management role. Goal-setting is central to effective sales leadership.

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Sales Gravy

JUNE 4, 2021

What does emotional intelligence have to do with sales leadership? According to Colleen Stanley, who is the author of the hit new book Emotional Intelligence for Sales Leadership, a high EQ matters a lot. In fact, it is the real secret to building a high-performance sales team.

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Sales Leadership: How to Ensure You Exceed Your 2015 Quota. The end of the year is rapidly closing in and while everyone in your organization is focused on achieving their targets; as a sales leader it is crucial you are also focused on the new year. You need to test it and plan how to roll it out.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 21, 2021

Not only are there are many external factors that affect motivation, every person requires different incentives and motivational tactics. In my decades as a sales leader, I’ve used the following strategies to successfully motivate my team and drive motivation through the roof. How do you want to be managed?

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Sales Leadership: 2013 Sales Theme. Last week I was speaking at a conference on: “ Building and Maintaining Sales Motivation ”, after the program several individuals came up to discuss my concept of a “Drive Statement. Creating a “Drive Statement” can assist you.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Worse still — and this is the biggest problem — the newly promoted sales manager may not have had any practical training on how to manage a sales team. They may not have the personality traits required to be a successful sales manager. Having said that, a top sales rep is accustomed to earning top dollar.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Whether you are a CEO, vice president, or sales manager, you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition from vapid outbound prospecting to selling through referrals. Sales Team Questions.

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 8, 2021

How to Motivate Your Sales Team. Sales leaders agree that a highly motivated and engaged sales force drives greater performance. So one would naturally ask the question, “how do I motivate and engage my salesforce?” Management must keep upping the ante to keep sales reps motivated to perform.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. Building and Leading a High-Performing Sales Team Only 31% of sales managers had strong confidence in their sales team’s ability to meet key business objectives. Encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing.

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 30, 2012

Sales Compensation and Having a Fun Summer. Sales Leadership Ideas. At this time of year sales management must be looking at pipeline levels and goals for July/August and determining if there is the necessary level of activity to ensure targets will be exceeded. A Contest Sampler.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

I always advise clients against offering incentives for referral business. Forget about incentives. Want to learn how to multiply trust with a proven referral system? He writes, “Trust is to human capital what money is to financial capital. Of those few things to get right, trust is on the top of the list.”. Trust should.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 14, 2014

Or “what do you want me to do, get sales or complete the KPI’s you gave me?” ” It doesn’t help when sales leaders are incented on meeting KPI’s rather than result. I hear reps say “well I delivered against the KPI, I got eight meetings every week this quarter.” What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto .

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Xactly

MARCH 22, 2018

Most of the time when I speak about the middle performers, it is because I am trying to convince a sales leader that there is value in focusing on the middle performers rather than explaining the sales incentive tools available to increase their performance. Final Thoughts–Aim for Simplicity.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fortunately, there are a few key strategies you can implement as a sales leader to ensure your sales team — and sales process — doesn't experience serious growing pains as your business scales. Keep reading to learn AWS Principal Startup Advocate Mark Birch 's tips for preparing your sales team for growth and long-term success.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2013

And now that we’ve got a compensation system that motivates us to show the customer just how much we can offer, we’re all incented to go that extra mile. Sales Process' I love the process of establishing trust with what were once arms-length prospects. customer loyalty.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The quality of your sales culture determines how much your salespeople sell, how productive they are, how long they stay with your organization, and what benefits can your sales organization expect to reap from how you’ve structured your sales team. How to build a winning sales culture.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 26, 2016

Since this series focuses on sales leadership, I’ll focus on it from a management point of view, hopefully helping sales professionals understand some of the issues that drive thinking around compensation. Sales people are pummelled with SPiFs, incentives, contests.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 7, 2020

Provide monetary incentive, leadership opportunities, and exposure to new roles and projects. Provide monetary incentive. With the power slowly shifting more and more in favor of employees, employers who continue to behave in this manner are in trouble. Serve Their Needs, Not Yours. So, what should we do instead?

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 13, 2012

One of the most common sales leadership complaints is sales people don’t use the CRM. Getting sales people to use the CRM has been an on going challenge for sales leaders for far too many years. They just end up frustrating the sales people and irritating leadership.

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The Pipeline

JULY 16, 2012

” Really, you would leave money on the table just because of that, your sales leadership can’t figure out a way to overcome this insignificant obstacle to revenue? There are number of answers or solutions to this common challenge, the fact that it still persists speaks more to attitude and quality of leadership.

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

In this guide, we’ll give you everything you need to know to implement a revenue-driving sales operations team and cover topics including: What is sales operations? Why is sales operations important? What is the difference between sales enablement and sales operations? Sales operations roles.

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ExecVision

JULY 15, 2018

Think about the DNA of your top inside sales reps. Know how to spot these in candidates you interview. Know how to handle low performing reps who bring the rest of the team down. SPIFFs are Short-term Performance Incentives for Fun. Peer pressure is huge and particularly effective for team goal incentives.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2023

Both of these types of responses give little guidance to the sales rep — in fact it probably just makes them more frustrated with the exercise. Learn how to Create stronger coaches with Coach Insights for Scorecards. How to coach well — sales coaching best practices for coaches, enablement teams, and sales managers 1.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 12, 2017

In business there has always been a lot of attention directed to leadership. Yet far lesser attention to this idea of self leadership. As has been noted earlier, many presume people know how to lead themselves through earlier educational experiences. Peter Drucker said leadership is all about results.

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Jonathan Farrington

JUNE 11, 2013

If you missed that post, do please scroll down as it will provide you with an insight and some background for today’s post, which looks at the essential of management and also offers you the opportunity to take the “Sales Leadership Health Check” – if you dare! Ready to take that “Sales Leadership Health Check?”

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A post for Sales and HR Leaders to find root causes of Sales Manager (SM) vacancies. The Sales Manager position is the fulcrum between sales leadership strategy and sales force execution. Teams without effective sales managers lack morale and discipline. Hiring profile not right.

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Circleback

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This indicates that a new type of sales team is on the rise, requiring an entirely different kind of sales leadership to help it grow and comply. To deal with this new sales legion, as well as the GenX population, sales leaders must have the necessary passion, enthusiasm and an ability to constantly motivate their diverse team.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 22, 2011

There is an incentive for that person to maintain or improve his or her performance to stay at the top. KEY POINT OF UNDERSTANDING: Incentives and awards are economic stimuli of the first degree. In challenging economic times (how’s that for putting it mildly), sales are what will make a company recover. Categories.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 26, 2017

You must quickly learn how to juggle the needs of your salespeople with the demands of your organization’s leadership. Improving your professionalism as an experienced Sales Manager is just as hard. At the same time, sales management is one of the most rewarding jobs in business when you know what to do and how to do it.

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criteria for success

JANUARY 27, 2021

Simple Strategies for Team and Self Motivation: Offer incentives. Since most salespeople are still working from home, you will probably have to get creative with the incentive. Instead, set clear goals, and let your team figure out how to accomplish them. How to Build an Impactful Learning Culture (Within Sales and Beyond).

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

That’s why the salesmen and saleswomen who cultivate relationships and leverage them for introductions to prime prospects get meetings faster, fill their pipelines with hot sales leads, and convert prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time. Our topic: “How to get the one-call referral meeting.” You can listen here.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 13, 2022

Finally, set compensation structures accordingly so your reps have reasonable base salaries but appropriate incentive compensation plans to keep them motivated and on track to reach company goals. Align your sales process with the buyer’s journey. Still wondering how to improve sales performance?

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