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10 Conversations to Retain Millennial Sales Talent

SBI Growth

Entering 2014, Sales and HR leaders face new trends causing turnover with top talent. This post offers solutions to Sales and HR leaders who ask this question: “How do we respond to demographic trends and retain top sales talent?” Retaining sales talent is a critical success factor.

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2022 Sales Compensation Trends: Notes from the WorldatWork Conference

Sales Hacker

Staying innovative and competitive in the war for sales talent depends on it. Most sales planning teams aspire to reach this goal. Budgets, territories, and quotas are opportune moments in the sales planning cycle. In my experience, few do.

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New Study: 2020 Trends in Sales Management

Miller Heiman Group

Sales organizations undergo constant change initiatives. Managers sit squarely at the intersection of these trends, yet for most organizations, sales management strategies have hardly changed. For all of its promise, technology hasn’t yet led to greater seller efficiency for many sales organizations. Hiring New Sellers.

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Why Sales Managers Struggle with Effective Hiring

Miller Heiman Group

Though sales organizations hire more sellers than ever to grow their business and compensate for losing salespeople, studies show that they may not be following hiring best practices: 84% of sales leaders say they lack the sales talent they need to succeed in the future.

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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. Most of these require salespeople to be onsite.

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How to Organize Your Sales Force to Generate More Revenue

SBI Growth

This post is focused on organizing sales talent to help you make the number. The cost of sales is increasing. Hiring ‘A’ player sales reps is expensive. A symptom of this is: your revenue trends haven’t increased with your sales expense. Often, sales reps are good at one or the other. Rarely both.

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Time to competency: the new essential metric in sales onboarding

BrainShark

Traditional sales onboarding metrics fall short in accounting for a new employee’s competency level. That’s why analysts are citing time to competency as the new essential metric in sales onboarding for not only accelerating onboarding but retaining sales talent.

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