Sales managers play a critical role in the sales organization. As first-line managers, they have maximum influence on salesperson performance day-to-day; as leaders, they are instrumental in directing large-scale change initiatives. Their influence, therefore, spans a broad range of tactical and strategic outcomes, one reason why many consider the sales...Read more
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Research Report: Defining Sales Management’s Value 
30 June 2021
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Sales managers play a critical role in the sales organization. As first-line managers, they have maximum influence on salesperson performance day-to-day; as leaders, they are instrumental in directing large-scale change initiatives. Their influence, therefore, spans a broad range of tactical and strategic outcomes, one reason why many consider the sales...Read more
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Removing Legal Review Bottlenecks to Accelerate Deal Cycles
30 June 2021
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Legal review is an important and necessary stage in many sales cycles, but can often be the source of painful bottlenecks. This webinar offers best practice approaches to increasing cross functional alignment with the legal department to streamline collaboration, improve quality, eliminate needless delays, and speed deal flow.
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Research First Look: Defining Sales Management’s Value
23 June 2021
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Sales managers play a critical role in the sales organization. As first line managers, they have maximum influence on salesperson performance; as leaders, they are instrumental in directing change. Drawing on recently concluded SMA research, this webcast explores changes in sales management's role and impact. The research examines important value...Read more
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17 June 2021
Using contests, spiffs, and special one-time incentives can help bring needed emphasis to fast-changing sales force priorities. But these incentive programs are also fraught with potential pitfalls. In this session we consider best practice approaches to incentive design and implementation in support of short term sales goals and contests. Scroll...Read more
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Best Practice Incentive Compensation Practices for High Growth Companies
16 June 2021
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As companies scale, they outgrow incentive compensation approaches better suited for earlier stage firms. If incentive compensation practices are not appropriately calibrated to a firm's growth phase, sales compensation can undermine the sales organization's growth trajectory. In this webcast we offer best practice approaches to incentive compensation for growing firms,...Read more
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How New Cognitive Technologies Will Guide Sales Training and Enablement
9 June 2021
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Sales leaders could be forgiven their skepticism when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Tech marketers (including many in the sales effectiveness space) are quick to brand any computational capability as "AI," while pundits have been touting AI's disruptive impact seemingly for decades. Nevertheless, AI, and the cognitive technologies derived...Read more
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