Resources

Two questions underlie every firm's efforts to build a successful sales force: What qualities make salespeople successful?? and How do we develop these qualities?? This research identifies how organizations answer these two fundamental questions. Most importantly, it investigates the alignment between management's priorities (suggested by the first question), and the...Read more

Join us for a first look at recently concluded research on how firms develop salespeople, the value sales leaders place on specific salesperson characteristics, and how well actual sales training and development activities align with those values. The research defines how companies answer the question, What makes an effective salesperson?...Read more

Process discipline characterizes the approach many productive sales organization take to managing selling activity, but those same firms often neglect to treat sales manager activities with the same rigor. This webcast makes the case for establishing sales management process, while detailing how successful firms implement effective management process.

Sales enablement leaders map content investments to crucial buyer/seller interactions. A comprehensive “content map” helps promote cross-organizational endorsement and aligned objectives. This webcast reviews best practices for taking stock of available content, prioritizing needs, and positioning content where sales and marketing teams can make the most of it, while developing...Read more

Sales coaching is widely acknowledged as a high value productivity investment, a view reinforced by Sales Management Association research. Yet few sales forces have impactful coaching programs due in part to the challenges of effectively allocated management's limited coaching bandwidth. This webcast focuses on how technology enabled analytics can focus...Read more

Sales organizations invest mightily in salesperson training. But these investments are often ineffective, in large part because desired outcomes are not observed, validated, and certified. This webcast explains how mobile video can address these challenges, transforming conventional training approaches and dramatically improving training outcomes. Topics addressed include: Shortening ramp time...Read more

What if not just what? you sell, but how? you sell is your most compelling competitive advantage? To answer that question (and many more?) an increasing number of companies are investing in sales enablement talent and technology as a means to increase team productivity, improve competitiveness, and ultimately, grow revenue....Read more

The New Year is an excellent time to reexamine the sales enablement initiatives. This webcast reviews how to craft a coherent sales enablement strategy around practical objectives for 2017, focusing on foundational ideas relevant to firms just starting their enablement journey, as well as best practice approaches for optimizing existing...Read more