Great sales leaders have a sales management cadence that sets the rhythm of their team. The idea of a sales cadence is not new. Sales organizations have been using the concept for years to structure how and when sellers deploy touchpoints with prospects and clients throughout the buyer’s journey. Rarely, though, is a sales management…
Improve the quality and frequency of conversations between reps and managers with calibrated leadership teams How do you spend an entire day in a room with sales enablement, sales operations, and sales leaders? In constructive conflict of course! Throughout 2017, my team and I hosted a series of Sales Manager Effectiveness Workshops across the country.…
How Core Drives Can Deplete Or Increase Sales Manager Motivation This guest post was originally published on yukaichou.com: Why Sales Manager Motivation Needs A Makeover Previously, we explored the core drivers of motivation in the sales organization and why our traditional coin-operated, compliance-driven sales culture may finally be ripe for disruption in Why Seller Motivation…
Why Do Sales Leaders Make Resolutions That Are Bound To Fail? How did 2017 end for you? Did your team smash their goal, barely squeak by, or fall apart? As a sales leader, your success is based entirely on your team’s performance. So, no matter what happened in the past year, I’m willing to bet…
This year’s Sales Enablement Soiree, hosted during Dreamforce, demonstrates the momentum building in the function. Attending the Sales Enablement Soiree at Dreamforce this year was an eye-opening experience for me. The sophistication of the topics presented and the quality of the content made attendance well worth it. It was also a testament to the ongoing…
Build a millennial-minded sales organization to create a sustainable revenue machine. Putting whatever prejudices you may have about millennials aside for a moment, building a millennial-minded sales organization isn’t simply about appeasing the “entitled generation”. It’s also about building a sales coaching and development culture within your sales organization that will benefit employees of all…
The sales development loop helps you get your team to quota every quarter. Your revenue goal for the quarter is clear. How you reach it is not. In fact, it’s likely that only 57% of your sales reps will hit their quota. What might that mean for you if this trend continues? Let’s try not…
Formalize your deal review in 7 simple steps. As David Brock notes in his book, Sales Manager Survival Guide, sales managers spend their lives in reviews. So it might come as a shock that it’s likely that the majority of the time you spend in reviews is wasted. The core reason is that most sales…
Develop your sales team by borrowing these two powerful tactics from retirement saving. Previously, we explored why sales team development is a critical variable in your future success—much like saving for retirement. We discussed the cognitive biases working against sales managers in developing their teams and how to think about that investment the same way…
If long-term, sustained sales growth is part of your goal, you need to get serious about sales team development—before it’s too late. Do you often wonder why you should be saving for retirement? Probably not. But how often do you wonder if you should be investing in your sales team’s development? Here are two commonly…