Highspot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

With the war for sales talent at an all-time high, scaling your team with top performers is a tall task. Talent can be homegrown. Through a formal sales development program, you can not only strengthen your talent pipeline, but also empower the next generation of leaders and secure sales success at scale.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 2, 2014

Losing top Sales Reps is bad enough – losing top Sales Managers can kill your future. This post discusses reasons why top Reps and Managers are leaving your sales force. Talent Management Sales Training Human Resources Leadership Development Sales Turnover'

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 8, 2022

As basketball is an apt metaphor for sales, it’s a great time to discuss a sales talent audit. After all, when the sales environment shifts, teams need to reshuffle and improve to keep up. Yesterday’s sales team might not stack up against tomorrow’s challenges. A sales talent audit is no different.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Aside from helping you make money, training may save you money too. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here’s how a startup can successfully compete in the war for sales talent. Present your sales team’s mentorship program and any special leadership training program that you offer. Show candidates your sales team culture. Finding top sales talent is one thing. Proactively work on employer branding.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sales talent enablement is also a hot topic in many workplace environments, and there seem to be many inclusion initiatives to help diversify the job market. I†ve worked on a lot of sales talent enablement projects over the years, and I know what it takes to make sure they are successful. Role-Specific Acumen.

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Appbuddy

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Therefore, it’s crucial to attract the right talent to your company and hold on to the top performers—especially in the current job market. Let’s dive into how you can attract, coach, and retain top sales talent. The talent war is heating up. Finding the right sales talent has always been a challenge.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Sales Talent Is A Problem, Is it Worth Solving , by the folks at CSO Insights. How do we reduce the variability in sales people and what they do, creating the lowest cost ability to acquire customers. Many would also cite technologies that, supposedly, diminish the need for sales talent.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In either case, it’s exit time for the best sales talent. Onboarding is more than just scheduling new hires for Sales Training 101 class. For top earners it marks the end of the 2012 comp accelerator. For others who failed to Make their Number, the payout is disappointing. What can you do? Will this happen every February?

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sales Training Programs Online. Sales training programs online could become the preferred delivery channel over the next few years. Online sales training has both advantages, disadvantages, and parity with the more traditional approach to upskilling salespeople. Sales Training Programs – Online.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. Before that happens, though, the AI has to be trained?—? This creates a new challenge for sales management: how do you train your sales team?—?including

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SalesFuel

MARCH 19, 2024

Organizations spend billions on B2B sales training every year. Despite the heavy investment in training, some businesses won’t benefit as much as they should. That’s because they overlook the way the B2B sales world has changed. Businesses that want to recruit the best sales talent might tout higher training budgets.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I wrote The Coming Sales Talent Crisis , focusing on the struggles our customers face in their buying journey. ” They are referring to the data that we see about the revolving door of sales talent we see in too many organizations. Related Posts: Sales People/Manager Churn Is Unacceptable!

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2013

Last year’s top talent is struggling. Training dollars are being misallocated. Her sales manager knew her potential and sent her to a weeklong sales training. The Need-Payoff that she had been trained on was thrown out the window. Budget has been invested in Training and Development in the past year.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Now the economy is growing again and you are looking to hire more sales talent for your team. The bad news is your sales managers have maxed out their bandwidth with their current responsibilities and daily activities. This leaves you with a critical decision regarding how to ramp up the new sales hires.

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Miller Heiman Group

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Are you confident that your sales team can meet whatever new challenges arise in an increasingly unpredictable sales landscape? Align Sales and Service. Sales sells the first deal; customer service helps sell every deal thereafter.

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Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Many of the sales training coaching programs focus on bad sales talents or sales skills (what people do not do well) instead of good talents (what people do well). They may even abandoned their natural sales skills because of this focus on bad sales talents.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Training or Individual Development Plans that go unfinished or without progress. These bullets, by the way, are great indicators for Sales Management to step in when first known in order to take Reps out of this risk category. Determine the Rep’s ability to evolve by looking at what training they have completed or even requested.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As much as we love a good rags-to-riches story, the truth is, talent can’t be trained into someone—it’s hardwired. And if you’re trying to force a square peg into a round hole by “developing talent” in someone who simply doesn’t have it, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. You either have it or you don’t.

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SBI

AUGUST 1, 2018

Product training? But we all know the reality – even with the most organized onboarding program, it’s going to take weeks of reinforcement, training, and coaching, and months before it can be determined whether a new sales rep is successful. However, sales performance metrics alone don’t tell the whole story.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Help prevent thrashing early on by providing them with focused training. C ompensation – Your incentive plan will help you attract the best talent. Your time is too valuable to waste hours in the weeds on sales activities. Improving your sales talent will allow you to focus on being the CEO who crushes the number.

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Pipeliner

JULY 3, 2023

If we look at quote to cash vs. order to cash we will be able to understand how it enhances a sales professional’s effectiveness in driving revenue and customer satisfaction. In such instances, hiring top sales talent requires putting their needs first and showcasing them throughout recruitment.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 28, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Before we discuss how to improve sales training, a quick promo for the latest and greatest taking place over at the ever improving Top Sales World. The June issue of Top Sales Magazine has been published and you can download it here. The Talent Warp.

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Sales Training Connection

JUNE 9, 2014

Developing sales talent. Sales managers, like many other managers, have a tendency not to focus on their top performers. How long will it take and how much will it cost to recruit, hire, and train replacements for the top performers we lose? ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When considering in-house or outsourced sales training, the question is not, “which method is better?” This question requires leadership to determine which sales problem they are trying to solve. Not every company is a good fit for partnering with a sales training organization. The In-House Sales Training Model.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It turns out the challenge in B2B buying is not what we have traditionally thought, or what we have trained our people do to: Help the customer select a solution (Ideally ours). Are we training and coaching them to help our customers navigate their buying journey? Our customers struggle.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 15, 2021

To better understand the reasons why I spoke with several sales leaders who were, in fact, providing support to their sales managers. One of the VP’s said he was not happy with the impact of the corporate training program that he was mandated to use. I asked him what they were doing to sustain their excellent training.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 9, 2022

Recruiting and hiring future sales reps for your organization requires a different criterion than it did in the past. Do you believe in the mantra, “Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill?” But with the right attitude, employees can be trained to develop the sales skills they need to be successful.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We believe that talent + training + tactics = performance , and today we are bringing you a recap of the most popular blog posts we've published in 2022 on all things talent. Check out these top articles on sales talent from 2022 and let them kickstart your 2023 sales strategy.

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Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 15, 2019

Discovering these gems strengthens sales now and protects you from a strategy of hiring new salespeople to make up for lagging sales numbers, which will be critical if your organization faces a hiring freeze or if economic conditions shrink your talent pool. Take the Sales Performance Meter.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

Who is involved in the interview process, onboarding process, and ongoing support and training process? This way, you can be sure you’re training yourself to interview optimally (instead of falling for the same tricks over and over again). What’s not getting done today/tomorrow without this hire? If so, how? This is a team effort.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

While sales is undoubtedly the lifeblood of any organization, the thought of implementing a successful sales training program is enough to give even the strongest business leader pause. There’s clearly a gap between perceived and actual ROI when it comes to sales training, with good money being spent on ineffective practices.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

AUGUST 18, 2022

Bruce Wayne trained for 12 years to cross the globe and learn martial arts and forensics. Doctor Stephen Strange trained for 4 years, but he had the forces of Kamar-Taj in his favor! The Center for Sales Strategy firmly believes that you have a few innate sales traits (best discovered through our Sales Talent Assessment).

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The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 20, 2021

Soft skills sales training is becoming just as important as the hard skills training, we are most familiar with in the world of training. We know we live in unprecedented times but most of all, when it comes to the sales profession, these are times of profound change. Soft Skills Sales Training Checklist.

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The Digital Sales Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Sales training topics that actually get results can be challenging to nail down. There is the hard sales skills V soft sales skills debate not to mention social selling, customer profiling, outreach tactics and all the steps in the sales process. For many companies sales talent is now a key differentiator.

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The Brooks Group

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The value of top sales talent can’t be understated, so it pays to make sure strong performers are satisfied with their positions, engaged, and motivated to grow with you for the long-run. The 3 Fundamentals for Keeping Top Sales Talent. How to Retain Your Top Performing Sales Reps.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s 25% Increase in Sales Training ROI – Sales eXchange – 115. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Hiring Sales Talent , Proactive , Proactivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales eXchange , execution. Given that, why train them?

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