Sales leadership and sales management sometimes get used interchangeably. After all, both are positions of power and influence in the organization. Plus, both have a big impact on the success of your sales team and your company. But sales leadership requires very different skills from sales management...
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Addressing Today’s Toxic Sales Culture: Five Solutions
With staff churn in sales at 35% and rising, you’re likely blaming the Great Resignation – or those younger reps preferring to chill out than hold down a job long term (the Big Quit). It’s much more difficult to swallow the fact that one cause of high...
read more5 Crucial Tasks of Sales Leadership with Younger Teams
As an experienced team leader, you already have an edge when it comes to providing the best sales leadership with younger teams! For example, consider your trepidation and uncertainty when you first started out in the sales arena. Chances are you discovered the best way to learn...
read moreCauses of Turnover of Sales Personnel
Here’s a poser: If the US spends around $15 billion annually on training sales reps, and around $800 billion on sales personnel incentives, what proportion of those figures is your business wasting due to turnover of sales personnel? Of course, you can’t answer exactly because you’re not...
read moreSales Teamwork: Why It’s Important
We established in another post that it’s not usually poor sales training that leads to poor business performance but lack of sales team leadership. That remains true, but you need to also focus on sales teamwork. You may not have a huge sales team or even a...
read moreIt Starts with Sales Team Leadership
You don’t have to have the top sales talent in your industry to succeed. You do have to have sales team leadership. Ask any political candidate, football coach, or successful businessman. They will all tell you that to improve performance and drive better results in any endeavor,...
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