Resources

Sales leaders often talk about sales culture, but how many work proactively to shape positive cultures in their organizations? Many assume culture is a construct too vague to define, let alone manage. In doing so, they miss an opportunity to harness one of the most impactful drivers of sales productivity....Read more

A quick way to increase productivity in business-to-business sales forces is through efficient sales territory design. Sales territories – salespeople's assigned set of customers and prospects –are often created out of expedience or outdated assumptions. A more considered approach yields significant and immediate improvements in sales effectiveness. In this webcast...Read more

Large firms typically have both a sales function, and a sales force effectiveness (SFE) function. With names like sales operations, commercial effectiveness, revenue operations ("RevOps"), or sales excellence, they provide direction and support to the sales organization, which remains focused on execution. Corporate SFE functions require an unusual combination of...Read more

Cold outreach – the sales force’s efforts to attract new prospects through proactive calling and messaging – has never been easy, but a growing number of pundits now say cold outreach is dead. They are quick to point out that email platforms, including Google and Microsoft, are implementing more stringent...Read more

Technology in sales organizations is developing rapidly, generating plenty of shuffling in sales tech stacks. As firms adopt new tools, many are reevaluating long-standing investments, and reexamining the objectives and success criteria associated with sales tech. This session examines a range of approaches firms use to evaluate the effectiveness and...Read more

Sales compensation is a lightning rod for legal risk — something many firms overlook, finding out only too late how costly sales comp disputes can be. In this webcast we consider what steps management can take to safeguard the firm from legal hot water when developing sales compensation programs. We’ve invited...Read more

This research identifies corporate practices in sales performance management. It considers a set of core management practices important to guiding and supporting sales organization productivity, including resource and goal allocation, incentive design and management, performance reporting and analytics, and data management. The research identifies prevailing approaches and best practices in...Read more

Sales activity metrics form the basis of a scientific approach to sales productivity, but in making decisions, most sales organizations substitute gut feel or unchallenged assumptions for data. In this webcast, we consider actionable approaches for improving management insights into sales activity, and describe practical approaches for modeling workload and...Read more