Categories: Sales Planning | Talent Management
Strategic Account Managers (SAMs) are charged with nurturing and cultivating business in your company's most important customer accounts. It's a critical sales role in every company; one that’s essential to achieving your revenue goals. Here are two steps you can take to support your SAMs and their ability to nurture and expand customer accounts.
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Categories: Talent Management
If you’re like most sales managers, you’re constantly taking shortcuts with the time you spend on sales talent management. In many sales organizations, activities associated with managing people often get put on the back burner either because we are uncomfortable handling them or because we’re too busy reacting to seemingly more pressing problems. Unfortunately, taking shortcuts in these key processes can bring negative consequences to your sales organization, including negative impacts to your bottom line.
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Categories: Talent Management
A top-performing sales team relies on its people. Once you have the right people on board, success becomes a lot easier. Attracting and recruiting top sales talent is a key, yet often overlooked component to sales effectiveness. As a sales leader, you need to actively recruit for your team. Don’t delegate it to human resources. It’s too important to the success of your team to not have your ownership.
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Categories: Talent Management
For a top-performing sales organization to thrive, managers need a viable coaching strategy. Developing a process around attracting and retaining top sales talent is a critical component to lowering turnover rates and improving your sales team’s bench strength. CSO Insights’ research repeatedly shows sales organizations struggle with developing processes that help them recruit and onboard top sales talent. Even more importantly, few organizations have a process that helps ensure they’re retaining their best hires. Even the best performers won’t succeed if you haven’t defined their success.
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Categories: Talent Management
Creating a process behind your sales talent management strategy can lower turnover, decrease time-to-productivity and improve sales team bench strength. Unfortunately, talent management is likely on the bottom of the list for most sales managers, as they deal with revenue goals, forecasts and endless administrative burdens.
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Categories: Sales Conversation | Sales Process | Talent Management
Today I’m sharing three posts that got my attention in the blogosphere. When it comes to improving your sales organization, who doesn’t love a good list to get you thinking? And, Oracle’s problem in sales execution (outlined below) is something I’ve seen with hundreds of clients. A sales execution problem centers on management’s operating rhythm. I’ve added my own thoughts to these posts. Let me know yours in the comment section below.
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