LSA Global

JANUARY 10, 2018

Do You Know What Stops Sales Managers from Coaching? If you are responsible for the performance of your sales team, you must first identify what stops sales managers from coaching so you can systematically remove the big obstacles to their acting as effective coaches. Why Sales Coaching Matters.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top 10 Key Sales Management Skills: Mastering the Art of Sales Leadership Sales leaders must routinely navigate high stakes internal and external relationships while meeting ever-increasing revenue targets and demands from their sales team. Customer Focus Top sales leaders put customers first.

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LSA Global

JUNE 17, 2024

How to Increase the ROI of Sales Training Even though $20 billion is spent on business sales training per year, more than a third of sales leaders admit that they do not have a clear idea of what measurable return they are looking for on sales training. All those sales skills make sense.

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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

The Top Sales Leader Effect ? What Top Sales Leaders Do Better than their Peers Getting the right person to lead Sales matters. The impact of top sales leaders is enormous. So, what is it that top sales leaders do better? Sales leadership is about effectively leading, managing, and coaching, not doing more selling.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The B2B Sales Hunters vs Farmers Sales Model The role of B2B sales hunter vs sales farmer has been discussed in business sales training workshops for decades. In general, the roles represent two different, and often related, approaches to selling with each having an important part to play in sales growth.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2021

Does Your Sales Team Know How to Avoid Bad Sales Hires? A good sales hire can successfully do their job. The problem with hiring salespeople is the very fact that they’re salespeople – they are good at persuading sales managers in job interviews that they can do things they can’t.

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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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LSA Global

JULY 16, 2021

Do the Math Trying to define high performing sales territories that are balanced, and consistently high producing is the source of many a sales manager’s headaches. There are so many ways to slice and dice sales territories but, however you do it, there is one constant – it should reflect real data.

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LSA Global

JULY 15, 2024

How to Deliver Better Sales Training We know from sales assessment data that far too many sales teams lack the proper business sales training , sales coaching, and sales support to consistently meet or exceed their sales targets. Most organizations need higher sales rep.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Stalled Sales Prospects Can Be So Frustrating Stalled sales prospects — it’s one of the most perplexing and frustrating challenges salespeople face. Your sales prospect initially showed a lot of interest, they claim to be authorized to make the final decision, and they have the budget to buy from you. What Gives? What gives?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2021

Shorten Your Sales Cycle In sales, time is money. The more quickly you can close the right deals with the right clients – or kick unqualified leads out of your pipeline – the more successful you and your sales team will become. For more sales in less time, don’t be shy. Don’t view referrals as an afterthought.

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LSA Global

JUNE 16, 2023

It’s All About Differentiation to Not Get Commoditized During the Sales Process Unless you are selling something that people can’t get enough of or you have no competition, your sales team needs to find effective ways to differentiate your product and services if you do not want to get commoditized during the sales process.

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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

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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LSA Global

JUNE 21, 2022

Confidence in Sales Experienced sales managers know that their sales teams need competence and confidence to succeed. Sales team confidence needs to be high. Here’s a research study from our microlearning experts that we weave into our customized business sales training workshops that answers that question.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2021

Frustrated by Disappointing Sales Training Results? If you are frustrated by the results of your business sales training investment, you are not alone. Lots of sales leaders feel the same way. Only 1-in-5 sales training participants change their on-the-job behavior or performance from standalone sales training.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Sales Training Design Best Practices Matter. Sales training design best practices matter a great deal. Why go through the expense, effort, and time to provide business sales training for your sales force if it is does not improve sales performance? 12 Sales Training Design Best Practices.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 28, 2019

Top 4 Sales Leadership Mistakes to Avoid – Complex Sales Can Be Complicated. Are your sales reps fully prepped to win? Are your sales reps fully prepped to win? Top 4 Sales Leadership Mistakes to Avoid. We work hard to address the specific needs of our sales clients. Sales leaders set the example.

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LSA Global

APRIL 11, 2018

Optimize Sales Success. Just casting your line to snag any client as they happen to swim by is no way to run a sales team or to optimize sales success. It may be the way to run a kid’s lemonade stand but not a high performing sales team. To succeed, sales leaders need to be proactive. llocating Sales Resources.

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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. Why Do Sales Leaders Struggle with Setting Sales Targets?

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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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LSA Global

AUGUST 20, 2019

All companies seek to experience high sales growth. A recent McKinsey study of more than 1,000 companies identified five meaningful things that distinguish fast-growing sales organizations from their lagging peers. Four Ways to Unlock High Sales Growth for Your Company. Why Do Some Companies Grow Profitably While Others Stall?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Not All Sales Leadership Scenarios Are of Equal Value Top sales leaders outperform their peers when it matters most. Knowing how to handle specific sales leadership scenarios can make the difference between sales success and failure for big deals and for sales team engagement.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Start a New Sales Territory. Being asked to start a new sales territory is often full of opportunities and challenges. Successfully ramping up and running a new sales territory is a big responsibility that could make or break your career and your sales team’s ability to meet its targets. Territory Success Metrics.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 18, 2022

While most consultative sellers believe that buyers have the advantage during the sales and negotiation process , customers report being overwhelmed, uncertain, and under tremendous pressure to get it right. Having too many options is overwhelming and slows down the sales process. But are we succeeding?

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

When it comes to creating trust — especially during a sales presentation or a sales call — mastering the art of nonverbal cues can make all the difference. But research does show there are behaviors and gestures that play a role in whether a new prospect considers you to be a trustworthy solution seller or sales presenter.

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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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LSA Global

DECEMBER 6, 2022

From the Abstract to the Specific Change management consulting experts know that leaders must be able to translate abstract goals into specific behaviors and then ensure appropriate business processes are in sync. To learn more about changing business practices to change culture, download Changing Corporate Culture: 4 Do’s and 3 Don’ts.

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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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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Here are three suggestions that can help managers combat a lack of resources: Prioritize Clients and Stakeholders Similar to projects, not all clients or stakeholders are of equal importance. Then ensure that sales managers focus most efforts on your most strategic accounts.

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LSA Global

MARCH 14, 2019

Each participant was asked for one example of how “coaching conversations with your manager have made a significant difference in a sales situation.” Are your sales managers coaching their direct reports to help meet revenue targets? The post Impact of Managers on the Transfer of Training appeared first on LSA Global.

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2024

Examples of desired Level 4 outcomes from training include: — Increased sales revenue, margin, win rate, portfolio mix, deal size, and cycle time. That allowed the client to target the sales processes and solution selling skills that had the greatest impact to their specific situation. Achieved project cost, quality, and time targets.

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