Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Achieving revenue targets can be tricky, and it’s tempting to overlook training. A sales training strategy is your blueprint to equip sales teams with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel. It addresses all of sales, from product knowledge to customer relationship building.

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Bigtincan

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Traditional product training for enterprise sales organizations and retail employees often includes hour-long training videos, reviewing lengthy recorded calls, reading through documentation, and a bunch of other time-intensive training processes that require your sales reps to absorb and, hopefully, retain product information.

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Xactly

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. Sales managers and their reporting reps will have responsibilities in their roles, which means your compensation plans should be tailored to different roles. Constructing Commissions in a Sales Manager Compensation Plan.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Explore how they drive their team to achieve immediate goals while building loyalty for long-term business growth. This guide reveals how to lead with unparalleled skill. What Makes a Great Sales Manager? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart? What Sets Great Sales Managers Apart?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. Start a free trial 3.

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The Spiff Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Real World Examples of How to Motivate Employees During Tough Times Let’s look at an example of how motivation and reward go hand in hand. Though we won’t go as far as comparing sales management to dog training, it’s an easy analogy that illustrates the same idea. Let’s get into it!

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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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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. Weak sales strategy.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

This article puts the spotlight on what sales productivity means, why it’s crucial, and strategies you can employ to take your team’s productivity from 0 to 100 fast. Table of Contents What is sales productivity? Why is sales productivity important? DOWNLOAD Ready to become a better sales leader?

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What’s the difference between the “how” and the “why” of sales compensation? How you pay sales reps depends on the way you design your comp program, what metrics relate to what incentives, and so on— all the details we’ve covered in many past articles about comp plan design.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 16, 2022

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s hard out there for your average sales manager. Sales trends like ever-expanding buyer expectations, changing sales methodologies and nonstop transformation initiatives have coalesced to make their role more challenging than ever. Implement a Rigorous Hiring Process for Sales Managers and Leaders.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 14, 2014

So why didn''t the training on consultative selling stick? That same finding is used to determine how quickly a new salesperson will ramp up and apply what they learned from training. When you provide sales training, it''s not just new skills that you ask people to learn. That could be the punchline but it''s not.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 28, 2021

Investing in team training is a critical part of business success and growth. Your sales team is the backbone of your company, and your employees are just as vital to business success as your customers. You can’t simply train your sales reps once, send them out into the world, and expect them to adapt to new challenges without fail.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The Sales Manager Boot Camp. Becoming a new sales leader is overwhelming. Suddenly you go from having a quota to managing the quotas of multiple people. You must quickly learn how to juggle the needs of your salespeople with the demands of your organization’s leadership. For the New Sales Manager.

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LeadFuze

MAY 17, 2021

What is a Sales Manager. A sales manager is a person that’s responsible for building, leading, and managing a sales team within an organization. . A sales manager will work closely with managers of other departments, as well as communicate with prospects and customers on a regular or semi-regular basis.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 25, 2022

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?

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In this post, we’ll take a closer look at why sales goals are important to sales teams, how to set effective ones, examples of common sales goals, and steps you can take to track and achieve them. What are sales goals and why are they important for your sales teams?

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Braveheart Sales

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It shouldn’t be surprising that we spend a lot of time training sales teams and coaching the sales team leaders. Our experience doing it for clients provides much insight into how to get maximum benefit from this kind of help. Here are five elements that must be considered before any money is spent on sales training.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Even if your sales team is already driving good results, establishing a sales process or improving your existing one can take your business to the next level of growth. Just keep reading to get started with creating a winning sales process. Why is it important to have a structured sales process? Read this first.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’ve rounded up an awesome panel of sales leaders who spend their time unlocking the secrets to sales team motivation. And yeah, they’ve come up with super cool incentive programs… but they also know that high-performing sales teams require more than that.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So you want to become a sales manager ? First you’ll need to make sure you’ve got the right skills, experience, drive and track record at the helm in both selling and at managing others—in order to back yourself up. Want to get a ready-made set of resources to manage a sales team effectively?

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LeadFuze

JULY 7, 2023

Knowing how to set sales goals is a crucial skill for any business owner, sales manager or marketer. It not only drives revenue growth but also helps in managing customer churn and acquisition costs effectively. But setting effective sales goals involves more than just choosing an arbitrary number.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 2, 2022

Instead, even the best products need a sales strategy centered around the people who sell. Here’s how to build your sales strategy around your most important asset, your sales team: Create a Winning Culture. To create a winning culture, consider these tips: Encouragement Motivation Incentives Recognition Team Building.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

The problem is with typical sales metrics. If sales managers hold their people accountable for the number of phone calls they make, emails they send, and invitations and InMails on LinkedIn, that’s how they’ll prospect. Put a referral system in place, with training, metrics, and accountability for results.

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The Brooks Group

JUNE 11, 2017

By adding in a few carefully selected sales incentives, you can capitalize on this competitive streak and really get your team to race full speed towards sales goals. Sales incentives can be broken down into three categories. Sales incentives can be broken down into three categories.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 28, 2014

But once the task required “even rudimentary cognitive skills” a larger incentive “ led to poorer performance”. Other studies have supported these findings yet sales leaders have continued to use higher incentives to drive performance. I shared with him the research on sales mangers coaching and sales rep performance.

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Xactly

JULY 5, 2018

One of the most important things to consider when designing plans are the different roles on your sales team. Sales managers and their reporting reps will have responsibilities unique to their roles, which means your compensation plans should be tailored to different roles. Annual Target Incentive. On-Target Earnings.

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Allego

APRIL 2, 2019

Today’s sales training and enablement professionals can’t afford to be dismissive of ROI: if your sales training and coaching programs aren’t generating tangible results – in terms of higher revenues, faster ramp-up, shorter sales cycles, etc. – you need to find out why and apply the available fixes.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Sales is the most important function with any company, and the sales manager plays a critical role within it. That said… The importance of your sales manager cannot be understated. The sales force drives the company’s revenue and it’s the sales manager’s job to drive the sales force.

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Xactly

MAY 7, 2018

Sales operations and compensation professionals must compile a team to piecing together metrics and goals, which carries an incredible amount of responsibility. The resulting incentive plan must develop a compensation process that will motivates the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth.

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criteria for success

OCTOBER 20, 2020

What makes an effective sales manager? Acting as sales manager can be a difficult job because you wear two bulls-eyes: one on your front and one on your back. Your senior management is pushing for results, numbers, revenue, and profit. Your sales people are looking to you for guidance. Coach, don't manage.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 30, 2018

Being a sales manager today is less about managing and more about developing, inspiring and growing the skills of your team. This is not easy and can leave a lot of sales managers chasing their tails trying to work out how to improve the performance of their team. Coaching improves your skills.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In order to achieve success in your market, you must help your sales reps cultivate and realize their potential and fast. With those almost insurmountable stats, why should Sales Management even bother working with ‘C’ players? Having the right data at your fingertips enables you to be a nimble manager. features per call.

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Mindtickle

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In order to achieve success in your market, you must help your sales reps cultivate and realize their potential and fast. With those almost insurmountable stats, why should Sales Management even bother working with ‘C’ players? Having the right data at your fingertips enables you to be a nimble manager. features per call.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 14, 2014

Examples in sales may be lead to opportunity conversions, or proposals to close. You often hear sales managers and director speak of how they are doing against their KPI’s. Or “what do you want me to do, get sales or complete the KPI’s you gave me?” What do you want me to cut?” “No Tibor Shanto .

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So you’ve just been promoted to sales manager -- congratulations! In your first three months as a manager, you’ll have to learn an entirely new set of processes -- some related to sales, some not. Assess your strengths as a manager. Understand how your team wants to be managed. Potential value: $100.

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