Categories: Company Alignment | Sales Kickoff | Sales Productivity
As we start the new year, many of us are also launched into SKO season. As a revenue leader, you've invested budget, time and resources into this event - with the assumption that you will see ROI in terms of your strategic revenue goals. Your goal may be to improve upon last year's performance by training up new or underperforming members of the sales team and communicating expectations. The sales kickoff is a prime opportunity to build momentum, right the course and chart the path towards increased sales productivity and revenue. In order to achieve desired levels of growth and productivity, leaders must ensure that their presentation addresses the needs of every member of their sales team.
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Categories: Company Alignment | Sales Coaching Tools | Sales Productivity | Scaling Sales
The journey from start-up to maturity involves multiple rounds of iteration. Achieving product-market fit and getting your customers to pay and stay are the results of how your product and message adapted to your buyers' needs along the way. Now, reaching that next benchmark means continuing to refine and shift the way your company thinks about and talks about itself in the market. In our work with rapidly growing B2B SaaS and tech organizations, we’ve identified three common components that are crucial for satisfying the growth imperative. Here are three keys for leaders targeting the next revenue milestone:
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Categories: Company Alignment | Sales Productivity
In today's ever-changing sales landscape, stagnating is not an option. If it seems that you've reached a growth plateau, or you're struggling to increase recurring revenue to meet your goals, you may be facing an alignment challenge. Too often, companies function in silos, with sales, marketing, product and operations working separately rather than together toward common goals. As each department works to meet company goals on their own, inefficiencies become rampant, with sales performance likely becoming one of the largest frustrations. Removing those silos can create and capture customer value, as well as streamline internal processes and administrative burdens to increase overall productivity of your go-to-market teams.
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Categories: Company Alignment | Sales Kickoff | Sales Training Initiative
This week, we hosted a webinar with Force Management Senior Partner Tim Caito. Tim is our resident expert on sales negotiation and has years of experience planning and leading sales kickoffs. He joined us to share his do's and don'ts when it comes to planning a sales kickoff that drives measurable results on company strategic goals and revenue objectives. Keep reading to learn our takeaways from Tim Caito on the top three actions that will produce SKO results. If you find these valuable, check out the full webinar recording available on-demand. It was an engaging tactical conversation with some intriguing and relevant live audience questions.
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Categories: Company Alignment | Front-line Managers | Talent Management
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle The best leaders in the world are successful because they are able to align everyday company activities to their core revenue objectives. How do they do that? The answer is the Management Operating Rhythm (MOR). The MOR is a major way that organizations support their sales managers, outlining the actions necessary for repeatable success and holding them accountable to perform them consistently and at a high level. The operating rhythm helps leaders connect their role to the company’s strategy and execute the plan of action without getting bogged down in administrative burdens. Unfortunately, most companies don’t have a Management Operating Rhythm to make sure that their sales managers and their sales teams can be successful. You may have a certain cadence set for manager reviews, but is there consistency across the company with how these are executed? Do your managers have a clear idea of how to lead planning efforts and coach deals to ensure maximum revenue in every opportunity? Without a strong operating rhythm, there may be revenue falling through the cracks.
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Categories: Buyer Alignment | Company Alignment | Sales Messaging
Consumption pricing is associated with some of the fastest-growing SaaS companies of the past few years, including Snowflake, Datadog, Zscaler, and MongoDB. The consumption-based pricing model is popular because it helps these types of companies manage costs and gives the customer more control and transparency in how much they’re billed. But if the customer doesn’t directly see the value of your solution, they may stagnate or even fall in their usage. While commitment may be easier to gain on the front end without an upfront price tag, if the goal is to drive usage and growth over time, consumption model companies must constantly be proving their value. We can picture this as two sales cycles - one to close the deal, and one ongoing cycle to close the consumption. Companies that have been successful in driving sustained growth with a consumption model do so by achieving three critical levels of alignment.
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