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Your Sales Kick-Off Meetings Are a Waste of Time!

Igniting Sales Transformation

The activity KPI’s we set today, which incent the wrong behavior? The end goal should be that salespeople leave the event having improved their selling skills. The skills that decision makers expect of them. The skills that position your sellers to achieve their quota and deal profitability objectives in year ahead.

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The Ultimate Sales QBR Playbook for Sales Leaders

Sales Hacker

Sales reps can use this forum to showcase their key selling skills, strategic and critical thinking capabilities in the past quarter. You can evaluate how well reps did against quota. If not, how long until they can hold their weight of the quota? Wins: Discuss what worked well for individuals and the team collectively.

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Understanding the Fundamentals of Effective Sales Rep Management

Xactly

Sales reps may share one common goal—closing deals—but managers need to understand different personalities, adapt to unique learning styles, and provide the tools each rep needs to hit (and ideally, exceed) their quotas. Consider your sales incentive plan –it works in the same way. A little can go a long way with incentives.

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Outbound Prospecting: Thinking Above The Sales Funnel

The Sales Developers

Yet, surprisingly most aren’t getting better at achieving quota. and allow more time for non-selling activities, like hitting quotas. Most sales funnels follow the 80/20 rule, where 80% of the time is wasted on non-selling activities, such as insufficient data, wrong channels, and bad timing. The Current Data Problem.

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The 5 Requirements to Maximize ROI on Sales Training

Braveheart Sales

Create one that incents the behavior you desire and eliminates subjectivity and ambiguity. For instance, if incentives are based off of quota attainment, then quotas cannot be subjective and frivolously set by managers. Are you ready to make improved selling skills and behaviors part of an individual’s development plan?

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Why Emotional Intelligence Training is Vital for Sales

LeadFuze

After all – aren’t we drawn to positive, enthusiastic people than the one who are negative and desperate to reach their quota? Hitting each call with a hard-sell approach instantly screams “desperate”. It’s more about getting your customers to convince themselves to buy from you as opposed to influencing with “amazing selling skills”.

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Managing Change when Implementing Sales Readiness Tools: a Four-Step Approach

Mindtickle

The Champions completed missions on Mindtickle – they practiced their selling skills on the platform and were measured on how they learned and what they had learned. This approach worked well, particularly with the younger reps who were keen to learn and improve their selling skills.

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