Create a Feedback Loop to Drive Sales Excellence
Having a feedback loop is essential for building a sales team that achieves consistent sales growth through ongoing improvements in sales skills and team members’ attitudes.
Take Action to Fix Your Post-Pandemic Sales Turnover Problem
Suppose for a moment that 25% of your sales team quit before the end of 2021. Recent polling suggests this sales turnover problem is possible.
5 Ways to Measure the Performance of a Sales Manager
This article provides specific and practical techniques for measuring the performance of your company’s sales managers. Perhaps no position in the sales organization has less accountability than the sales manager position—in part because many companies don’t know how to measure sales manager performance. For example, the primary (and sometimes only) metric most companies use to [...]
Building a Winning Sales Organization in 2021
The beginning of the new year is the perfect time for sales managers to make plans to achieve breakthrough sales performance in 2021. One year ago you had strategies for success, but then the pandemic hit, and everything changed. Like everyone else, you probably spent the year “dancing on a shifting carpet” to make your [...]
5 Sales Coaching Strategies for Maximizing 2020 Sales
Read this article to discover 5 sales coaching strategies for maximizing 2020 sales. Good, structured sales coaching has been found to increase win-rates by as much as 30%. High-quality sales coaching helps your salespeople better understand each sales opportunity, identify gaps in their thinking or approach, and develop more skillful plans of action. Here are [...]
Do Sales Managers Discriminate When Hiring Reps for “Cultural Fit?”
Surveys have found that 82% of managers worldwide consider culture fit one of their top priorities when hiring people. That matches my own experiences, leading me to this question: do sales managers unknowingly discriminate when hiring reps for culture fit? So I was intrigued when I recently read an article by Lauren Rivera, professor of [...]
How Remote Sales Managers Can Avoid Destroying Team Morale
For remote sales managers, this article describes three things you can do to improve the quality of your remote sales coaching. Better quality sales coaching is the key to improving your team's morale. One of the biggest fears that salespeople have with a remote sales manager is the fear of being micromanaged. According to the [...]
Book Review: “Selling is Hard, Buying is Harder”
"Selling is Hard, Buying is Harder" by Garin Hess. A counter-intuitive sales book that delivers solid how-to’s According to author Garin Hess, the key to success in sales is for salespeople to take charge of the buying process in order to help your customer sell for you. That’s a real role reversal. This book shares [...]
3 Tips for Hiring A Coachable Salesperson
This article describes how to hire a coachable salesperson. Here are the tangible qualities that sales managers should look for during the interview process to accurately predict whether or not a sales candidate will be coachable. When hiring a salesperson, sales managers are increasingly telling me that they’re paying more attention to “coachability” — mostly [...]
Great Sales Managers Answer “Yes!” To These 4 Questions
This article provides four questions that you can ask a sales manager to quickly judge if he or she is a great sales manager, or not. If you currently are a sales manager, ask yourself these four questions to assess your own sales management skills and areas for improvement. Do all of your salespeople implement [...]