Management Tool
The annual sales meeting is an important event to set the tone for the year with your sales teams. It is the perfect time to communicate strategy, set priorities, and generate excitement for the year. We have organized a toolkit to help you get started.
The Sales Management Association’s recent research identified “lack of field input on prioritized meeting content” as a frequently cited shortcoming of annual sales meetings. This document provides a survey tool for use in soliciting field input on their content priorities, and how best these might be presented at an annual...Read more
Sales can't be automated. There are too many variables in complex selling interactions that require sales professionals to be able to adapt in the moment. Instead, an effective enablement strategy must consider how to harness the best practices of your team and ensure these practices permeate the organization. Supporting the...Read more
Though most firms acknowledge first-line sales managers’ critical role, few organizations react quickly enough in responding to sales manager turnover. Vacant manager positions have an outsized impact on sales performance, since an entire sales team may be adversely affected. By developing sales manager “bench strength,” firms can more quickly react...Read more
Blog Post
Inside sales staffing is outpacing traditional salesperson growth by more than 50%, according to our recently completed study in inside sales trends. As expected, participants in our recent study (senior sales and sales operations managers) said inside sales’ lower cost structure helped drive headcount growth. However, even more important is...Read more
Webcast
Sales Compensation Plan Designs That Improve Profitability — 3 Case Studies 
10 November 2014
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Sales organizations must do more than simply grow the top line – they must grow revenue profitably. And most firms empower salespeople with enough decision-making authority to impact profitability. Decisions that involve pricing, product mix, solution development, and customer expense management can all profoundly affect profits as well as sales....Read more
Research
Our recently concluded study on inside sales trends surfaces emerging issues, management priorities, and best practices associated with inside sales channels in large sales organizations. Research topics include: Current approaches in inside sales force deployment Leadership’s inside sales management challenges Assessing the adoption and effectiveness of enabling technology used to...Read more
Webcast
Extending a Learning Event: Best Practices for Sales Managers
6 November 2014
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Sales Managers are integral to driving change in organizations, especially when implementing training or learning initiatives. The key to successful adoption of any of these new initiatives lies in developing a strong framework for supporting the acquisition of new skills and processes over time. In this webinar, Nattalie Hoch, Executive...Read more
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