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Onboarding Sales Talent The Right Way: The Sales Manager’s Perspective

Janek Performance Group

Sales professionals not only need a stimulating job with a lot of room for growth, but also social interaction, a positive work environment and recognition and respect from sales executives. Ask questions like, “How would you handle a customer’s price objections?” Throw in a few colleague-to-colleague questions as well.

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Why Evaluate Potential Sales Talent? - A Great New Case Study

Anthony Cole Training

One of Objective Management Group’s (OMG) partners, Market Sense, in Austin, Texas, had an opportunity to work with 15 MBA students that had never sold. They were evaluated with OMG''s sales person assessment, and assembled into 5 teams, all selling the exact same product. This kind of story doesn''t happen every day.

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Four Approaches to Find Hidden Gems Among the Sales Talent You Already Have

Miller Heiman Group

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. Not necessarily.

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The Great Migration to Inside Sales - Will You Get it Right?

Understanding the Sales Force

How about these: By sales talent - What roles are your salespeople best suited for? By location of the sales talent - Where can you find the ideal sales talent for your company? It may not be where the territory is or where the company is located. It''s not a quick or simple answer.

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Do You Really Have the Best Sales Team Possible?

SBI Growth

Do I have the right talent on my team to meet these initiatives? Is my talent aligned to accomplish this objective? Do I have my talent in the right place and on the right accounts? Are they in the right territories? 5) Reallocate the C player territory to your A players. Seize control of your destiny. ‘A’

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The Pipeline ? Shrink Your Way To Success

The Pipeline

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. They say you can’t shrink your way to success, but perhaps there are situations in sales where you can. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense.

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In the Age of AI, Training Is More Critical Than Ever

Sales and Marketing Management

And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. This creates a new challenge for sales management: how do you train your sales team?—?including This is unexplored territory?—?and What will it do? including the B- and C-players?—?to

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