Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Thus, it’s high time that you look beyond the monetary-based sales incentives and explore more effective options of appreciating your sales team. Sales is an art in itself. And that makes sales people quite the organizational rockstars. Traditionally, sales incentives were synonymous with cash incentives.

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AIHR

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Here’s a quick breakdown of the benefits of the three most popular sourcing platforms: Google is perfect for a broad, unrestricted search, especially when you want to look for passive candidates with a specific skill set or those who have a strong online presence. LinkedIn is ideal for leveraging professional networks.

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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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Peter Winick

JANUARY 9, 2023

Listen in to hear some great insights from four amazing guests: Kelly Wright is the Founder of Culture Driven Sales which helps companies create exceptional cultures. Kelly helps us connect thought leadership and sales. Kelly shares what sales can do to aid in that goal and the tools they’ll need to succeed. How they connect?

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LSA Global

MARCH 17, 2025

Top 10 Sales Rep Performance Checklist: Essential Habits for Success We know from sales leadership simulation assessment data that top sales reps do not just wing it they follow a disciplined, strategic, and customer-first sales process. This includes: Mastering product benefits and differentiators.

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Peter Winick

MARCH 16, 2023

In addition, we can help you implement marketing, research, and sales. And I am very I’ve been focused for the last seven months on more of a B2C audience trying to get my Amazon sales, my Amazon reviews, trying to share people about my book and things like that. Contact us for more information. This is Peter Winick.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 12, 2017

High Sales Attrition Can Be a Major Problem. Most studies peg average sales attrition between twenty-five and thirty percent split fairly evenly between voluntary and involuntary attrition. Most studies peg average sales attrition between twenty-five and thirty percent split fairly evenly between voluntary and involuntary attrition.

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LSA Global

JUNE 25, 2021

Setting More Achievable Sales Goals You have heard over and over how important it is to set sales goals, so that you have a specific target to work toward. Otherwise, your sales activities lack focus and direction. Goal Setting Let’s assume that overall sales goals are set by your sales manager.

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Asana

MARCH 28, 2022

Meet AJ Kamara, a Commercial Sales Manager on the Business & Marketing team. The same goes for things like the Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and the executive coaching benefit. I’ve had people say to me, “Oh wow, you really bring sales to the table.” AJ joined Asana five months ago from Phoenix, Arizona.

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AIHR

AUGUST 23, 2022

Let’s look at the example of a sales department. Sales managers are often promoted into their positions because they are the top sellers. They could emerge as an excellent manager who drives better sales numbers. Organizations that adopt a high potential talent mindset will reap many benefits.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Product-Oriented versus Customer-Oriented Experienced sales managers know that their team’s sales presentations should orient their messages toward the customer rather than the product. Yet research shows that salespeople regularly stumble headlong into a product-oriented approach when making sales presentations.

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LSA Global

MAY 24, 2023

When a Sales Prospect Says No Most sales managers teach their salespeople to be persistent. However, salespeople are human, and when a sales prospect says no — to a sales meeting , to a demo, or to the sale itself — they may be tempted to think that “no means no” and stop or delay pursuing their ideal target client.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Two Starkly Different Calls – Which Has the Mindset for a Better Sales Call? Here are two very different sales calls from our sales management workshop. Top sales leaders understand both perspectives. But lately, your sales prospect has gone dark. Call Number One: You are the seller. What’s the Point?

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Alison Green

JULY 22, 2024

My coworker didn’t tell me he was applying for a promotion in our sexist company A long-time male acquaintance of mine, who I have known for 13 years, recently rejoined my industry after an eight-year hiatus and was swiftly promoted to the director of sales and marketing within just three months. But your friend didn’t do anything wrong.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

As a sales leader, it''s important that you analyze your current customers to help you identify the best places to focus your energies for finding new customers. That''s the advice of Brian Tracy in his new book, Unlimited Sales Success. What specific benefits does the customer receive from your product or service?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 20, 2023

A Sales Meeting with an Executive is Always High Stakes Solution sellers who get a sales meeting with a target company’s executive consistently close more complex deals than those who sell at lower levels. But the expectations and needs of C-suite buyers are higher and different from other stakeholders.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 28, 2019

Sales Training without Reinforcement Should Be Unacceptable. Based upon over 800 sales training measurement projects, we know that sales training by itself – even if it is highly customized – only changes the on-the-job behavior and performance of 1-in-5 sales reps. Sales training reinforcement.

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Zenefits

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

An effective incentive compensation plan can produce an array of short- and long-term benefits for both employer and employee. By benefiting when the company succeeds, they’re more likely to consider the big picture rather than focus only on their smaller part. These are most effective when paid at intervals on a sliding scale.

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15Five

APRIL 25, 2018

Christine is also not a fan of annual reviews and she offers a new approach to standard performance management, called Performance Motivation. Managers can inspire maximum performance not by grading it but by using a process that creates intrinsic motivation and benefits both the employee and the company.

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LSA Global

APRIL 24, 2017

To succeed, sales teams need to think less about their own sales process and products and more about their customer’s buying process and most pressing challenges. Rather than the sellers driving the sale through identifying new customers, discovering their needs and then proposing a solution, customers now drive the process.To

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Walk Me

AUGUST 9, 2021

Once we have those definitions in hand, we can explore the benefits and drawbacks of each. Digital transformation leaders will require different leadership traits from sales managers, who will require different leadership traits from board members, and so forth. What Is Servant Leadership?

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AIHR

MAY 19, 2021

Hierarchies organized themselves primarily along functional areas such as Sales, Marketing, or Human Resources. In the beginning, they separated into management, clerical, and production groups. Sales managers in businesses like auto dealerships can develop strong relationships with customers by providing a personalized touch.

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15Five

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

True, there are some scientifically-backed benefits of faking confidence, such as it helps our body release hormones that improve mood or self-assurance, but there is a difference between presenting the best version of one’s self and a false version. Let’s say your organization is hiring for a sales manager.

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LSA Global

MARCH 18, 2022

Savvy sales managers and leaders invest heavily in growing current strategic accounts. 3 Sales Context Tips to Increase Revenue from Existing Customers Outperforming B2B sales organizations ensure that their sales strategy and sales culture are defined and aligned to grow existing strategic accounts.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2022

The Truth about Sales Success Most seasoned sales managers know that it’s easier to sell more to current accounts than it is to establish new ones. The Fallacy of Growth Through Satisfaction First, you must not fall prey to a long-held business sales training misperception. And how do you expand current accounts?

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Chief Executive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

That means your organization may want to consider the value of investing in a managed travel program. One of the reasons managed travel grew 25.6% With a managed travel program, you get all the benefits of business trips without all the logistical hassles. The post Do You Need A Managed Travel Program?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

Most sales and service organization have invested more time and effort in the past five years in improving managers' coaching of reps than they did in the previous 50. This makes perfect sense: research by the Sales Executive Council shows that no other productivity investment comes close to coaching in improving reps' performance.

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Zenefits

JANUARY 11, 2023

The HR director creates HR policies and procedures, which the HR manager implements/manages by delegating to the junior HR staff. Middle management: Large business. In large companies, middle managers are typically department heads, such as finance, IT, HR, marketing, and sales managers, who report to upper management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Until quite recently, business education might have been perfectly justified in skipping over sales. The job was to carry a bag, get a foot in the door, and talk up your offering's features and benefits. Perhaps a formal sales education couldn't add much to that. Sales, in contrast, got little respect.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. Somewhere else?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Over the past decade, I''ve worked closely with hundreds of vice presidents of sales, and like all of people, each has a unique personality. But even as I observe their individual differences, I have recognized patterns of behavior, which have allowed me to catalog their styles of sales management. Some are gregarious.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

“What gets measured gets managed” is a longstanding business aphorism. But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. Wins are the most common metric used across sales roles and industries. Deconstruct Your Sales Funnel.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Somehow, "successful" sales training has become associated with a thick binder of material the salesperson lugs home from the class (never to open again). In this article we review four critical elements that are commonly missing from today's sales training programs.Take a look at your own sales training program to determine whether: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

There's no better place to get a sense of the potential downside of social media for business than in B2B sales environments. Sales managers are under a lot of pressure to get their reps to exploit interactive online technologies to the max, but that's a lot easier said than done.

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Chief Executive

AUGUST 8, 2022

In our experience, EPM enables managers to produce 10-30% year-on-year sustainable profit increases. The goals of a local regional sales manager, an SBU head, the CEO, shareholders, investors and others differ in fundamental ways. Whose profits are optimized. A related critical question is: Whose net profits are to be maximized?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

A distribution company pays its salespeople entirely though commissions on sales. Salespeople keep their accounts permanently after making a sale. Sales leaders want to realign accounts more equitably across salespeople to give newer salespeople a better chance to succeed while providing customers with better service.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

On the ride back from Redwood City to San Francisco, my manager John and I hardly said a word to each other. We’d just left the headquarters of Oracle, and one of my worst sales calls ever. John Rovens was a terrific coach, and he invested a significant amount of time in my development as a sales professional.

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