Sales Operations
Buy your salespeople iPads, and they’ll play more Angry Birds. But that shouldn’t stop you from pushing your sales organization to adopt tablets. That’s one finding from our recently concluded Study of Sales Force Tablet Computing Trends. Another is that salespeople are adopting iPads on their own as fast as...Read more
Coaching As you read the word ‘coaching’ above, one of several thoughts might have come to mind. Perhaps you recalled the coaching model that your company wants you to use with your reps. Perhaps you were reminded that you haven’t been doing enough of it recently. Or maybe you thought,...Read more
“Coaching” salespeople yields tangible productivity benefits for sales forces, as research (including our own) has shown. Yet although coaching is considered important by sales organizations, it is under-supported by executive leadership (see the exhibit from our research below). And despite acknowledging coaching’s benefits, very few sales organizations field credible coaching...Read more
Sales Management Association underwriter Domo gave us 50 copies of this very cool infographic-turned-poster, and we’re giving them away to Sales Management Association’s blog readers. The poster is a beautiful visualization of what you might be able to do with an extra two hours. Just the thing for our sales...Read more
A guest post from Miller Heiman's Sam Reese Buzzwords are in vogue. Whether the word is transformation, enablement, re-engineering, what they really mean is change. But to truly change, one cannot just focus on one silver bullet. The fact is any change initiative will have many moving parts and interdependencies....Read more
iPad adoption hasn’t yet peaked in sales organizations, The Sales Management Association’s recent research shows. Only about one-third of salespeople currently use a tablet, whether it’s their own or a company-furnished device. But there is impressive momentum gathering behind company-sponsored tablet initiatives impacting the sales force. Most sales forces are...Read more
This spring’s Sales Management Association chapter meetings in Chicago and Atlanta included panel discussions on “Motivating the Sales Force.” [Our spring meetings were the first featuring a common topic, something we’ll continue as we add new chapters (including Houston and Twin Cities in the fall).]. In support of these sessions,...Read more
We know you’re busy. You can’t be expected to comb the internet searching for the best sales management articles. Who has that kind of time? I do. I have that kind of time. Here are five, from blogs you should be reading (but may not be). Comparing Leaders Aboard the...Read more
