LSA Global

MARCH 9, 2018

Wouldn’t it be nice to know the traits of successful sales managers? Sales managers have an awesome responsibility. They must motivate their team to achieve very concrete sales targets and do so under the constant pressure of executives who are impatient with excuses and for whom failure is no option. Accountable.

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LSA Global

JUNE 17, 2024

Create the Right Sales Culture The next step is to ensure that your sales culture is healthy enough, accountable enough, and aligned enough with the sales strategy to help, and not hinder sales performance. Do not underestimate the impact of sales culture.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Top Sales Leaders Drive Growth If you find a sales leader who Is not up to the challenge of accelerating revenue growth, you have not found a high performing sales leader. But you need more from a sales leader than simply a desire to grow the top line. They demonstrate how sales leaders drive growth.

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2023

According to research by the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, almost 70% of salespeople who exceeded their yearly quota graded their sales leader as excellent or above average. So, what is it that top sales leaders do better? Highly Focused on Results Top sales leaders keep their team focused on results.

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Zenefits

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In addition to salary and commissions, individual and sales team incentives may be offered as part of the total sales compensation plan. Sales reps can be enticed to open new accounts, manage a certain size book of business, or increase their sales volume.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In general, the roles represent two different, and often related, approaches to selling with each having an important part to play in sales growth. The roles differ mainly in how they go about generating revenue. What Makes a Good B2B Sales Hunter? Effective B2B sales hunters love going after and winning new business.

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AIHR

JULY 6, 2023

Employees are also aware of what is expected of them, facilitating accountability and performance tracking. Let’s take a look at how skills and responsibilities support each other within two very specific job roles—a software developer and a sales manager. Essentially, skills enable an individual to meet their responsibilities.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Our organizational alignment research found that workplace culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies. For example, one recent client had the abstract cultural goal of increasing sales team collaboration to win bigger deals faster while playing to people’s strengths.

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LSA Global

JUNE 25, 2021

The key is to identify sales goals that matter to you, your boss, and your sales team that are also achievable with reasonable but sustained effort. Goal Setting Let’s assume that overall sales goals are set by your sales manager. The Bottom Line Do not take goals and accountabilities for granted.

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LSA Global

JULY 16, 2021

Because often the biggest difference between the highest and lowest sales performers is not based solely on what they do and how they do it, but also to whom they were selling. Clarifying sales territories and forecasting their anticipated revenue give your sales reps meaningful and attainable sales targets to achieve.

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LSA Global

JULY 15, 2024

Sales leaders know that an underperforming sales force misses opportunities, loses deals, and negatively impacts customer loyalty. The good news is that when a sales force puts the customer first , adds meaningful value, and builds trusted advisor relationships , they grow revenues, margins, deal sizes, and relationships.

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Alison Green

JULY 22, 2024

As a manager, you shouldn’t be meting out punishments — that’s not the job. You should be ensuring people are well trained, coaching them when you see it’s needed, and holding people accountable for doing their jobs well. If an otherwise good employee did what you did, “punishing” them would be inappropriate.

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Walk Me

JULY 19, 2022

Companies depend on the success of salespeople, which is why the public often views sales departments as one of the highest-stress environments within a company. When change leaders throw the uncertainty and discomfort of a drastic transformation strategy into this mix, it can seem like a sadistic act upon sales employees’ heads.

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2024

But measuring training adoption and impact levels to reinforce coaching and accountability for change can provide a major boost. Examples of desired Level 4 outcomes from training include: — Increased sales revenue, margin, win rate, portfolio mix, deal size, and cycle time. Achieved project cost, quality, and time targets.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 19, 2021

Less than 20% of sales leaders rate their current sales training programs as highly effective. That is not the ROI sales leaders, sales reps, or sales trainers should expect or accept. Sales training should directly improve sales performance (e.g., revenue, margin, win-rate, cycle time, etc.)

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sales Leadership Techniques To Tell if You Have Realistic Sales Targets. Sales strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Setting realistic sales targets that drive higher performance is no easy task. Track Sales Rep Engagement and Turnover.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 28, 2019

Sales training reinforcement. While most organizations invest in business sales training with good intentions to improve sales skills, grow profitable revenue, and improve customer loyalty, most are wasting their time and money. Train their sales managers in how to effectively manage and coach their reps.

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BCW Institute

MAY 2, 2022

I had great experiences, going around the world, many different cultures, got to do everything from sales to sales management to industry marketing, channel marketing, product marketing, product management, you know, dealing with multi-million-dollar budgets and big teams of people. That’s a big one.

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