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...
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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...
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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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Most senior executives and sales leaders focus on what they should be doing right. That’s a good thing, of course. But often your sales team can be successful by just focusing on what not to do wrong! So – here are 10 tips for creating a successful...
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Why look at soft sales leadership skills? Aren’t the hard ones most effective at pushing your sales team to achieve? Well, no – although it might seem counterproductive at first. In the current, ultra-competitive world of sales, where disruptive startups are challenging traditional sales methods, it’s more...
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How do you assess your sales management team? You might just look at numbers and who can close more deals and feel you have an understanding through data alone. Yet, people are more than just numbers and data. There is always room for improvement, on any level...
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