Being a frontline sales manager is tough. Like any sales job, it comes down to the numbers you can produce. But the production is mostly out of your hands, you’re reliant on your sales team to get the job done. You can only control so much of what happens. If your reps are underperforming—or even…
Improve the results of your sales readiness initiative with these critical reinforcement elements Let’s begin with a quick talk about what sales readiness means. Sales readiness requires more than just training. It means that you have assessed and certified that your sales team has developed mastery of the new messaging, product or solution, geography, or…
The manager to seller 1:1 is a critical interaction that takes place in every sales organization, and yet it is a black hole for sales leaders “90 minutes of your time can enhance the quality of your subordinates work for 2 weeks or for some 80+ hours.” – Andy Grove, CEO & Co-founder at Intel…
Benchmark data spotlights four fundamentals to improve sales team performance There are some basics to every sales call that most sales teams tend to take for granted. Sales and enablement leaders assume that their teams are highly capable of executing the fundamentals of a sales conversation. They lack the visibility into daily sales interactions to…
New benchmark research highlights 5 sales performance fails that contribute to sales teams missing quota We are all well aware of the statistic that 53% of salespeople fail to hit their quota—and many claim that number will only continue to climb. I don’t think many sales leaders need to be told that, though. You’re living that…
A holistic approach to optimizing your sales team with data-driven sales management “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers In sales, it’s the close that gets all the glory. When that…
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…
Develop a high-performing sales team that will crush business goals with sales and enablement alignment Though sales and enablement are technically on the same team, working toward the same ultimate goal, the two functions in many organizations have grown apart. The reasons for this disconnect vary, but the solution to aligning sales and enablement in…
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.…
Improve sales performance with leader-first enablement. Leader-first sales enablement is a relatively new concept to many enablement organizations. The traditional approach is to train reps, but leave sales leaders and managers out because they either don’t feel like they need the training and/or they are too busy to participate. But then everyone wonders why the…