Get Lighthouse

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Anyone that you interact with regularly on another team is a good candidate for a peer one on one and in particular here's ones I've seen work well: Any pairing of a Product Manager, Designer, and Engineer, especially team leads. Sales and Customer Success leaders. Marketing and Sales managers. Have a goal in mind.

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Zenefits

JANUARY 11, 2023

As the buffer between upper management and lower-level employees, middle managers are oftentimes overlooked. Middle managers have become even more important as remote work increases and the physical distance between employers and employees widens. What is middle management and what is their role?

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15Five

APRIL 25, 2018

A successful employe feedback strategy focuses on all aspects of the team experience, from employee learning and development to management effectiveness. Ready to take your one on ones between managers and employees to the next level? Research by Zenger/Folkman found that nearly half of all managers dread giving negative feedback.

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AIHR

JUNE 19, 2023

When that happens, it can be tricky for a team, manager, or even a whole business to adapt. For example, if the data shows that, based on current trends, a company’s sales division is expected to grow by 40% then HR can determine that more sales managers will be needed to keep up with growth within the business.

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15Five

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether sales are stagnant or growing, many leaders of sales teams face the same challenges – they need to understand why their methodologies worked or didn’t work, so that insights and learnings can be shared throughout. Most sales people measure their careers by how many deals they get done or how many quarters they made quota.

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15Five

MARCH 28, 2018

workers and found that when promotions are perceived to be fair and well-managed, employee engagement and retention soars. Is she receiving employee feedback that outlines performance expectations? Has her manager asked her about her career aspirations and discussed ways to get there? The Good, The Bad, and The Disengaged.

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15Five

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

While we’re quietly faking it, we’re probably also projecting distrust onto our coworkers and managers. Let’s say your organization is hiring for a sales manager. Managers can help transform the old paradigm by working with employees, creating a trajectory of growth and acting as coach and mentor along the way.

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LSA Global

MARCH 14, 2019

Impact of Managers on the Transfer of Training. What is the true impact of managers on the transfer of training? Manager coaching is directly linked to skill application on-the-job. The Coached Group scores were nearly 20% higher than those who did not receive coaching from their manager. 2x Greater Performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

Do the best salespeople make the best sales managers? Almost unanimously, when we ask sales leaders this question, the answer is "no." Yet paradoxically, and too often, sales leaders look for candidates among the sales ranks and select the best salesperson for the manager job. He manages by results only.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 8, 2019

If you want your sales team to change on-the-job behavior and performance, then you need your sales leaders to not only understand what is being asked of their teams (i.e. put them through the same sales training) but to also become effective sales coaches. Reinforce the Sales Training. Model the New Way.

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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. The result is poor management of what matters. Deconstruct Your Sales Funnel.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Among the departing reps, 32% left primarily because of their relationship with their first line manager, 27% left primarily because of inadequate pay, and 21% left primarily because of the lack of promotion opportunities. The question: What should the sales leader do to fix this problem?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

As ongoing account management activities consumed more and more sales time, new customer acquisition slowed down–and the company’s revenue growth began slowing, too. The Pros and Cons of a Single Sales Role. Those who are more patient, collaborative, and focused on gaining loyalty can become account managers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

To motivate, manage, and reward B2B salespeople, many companies use sales incentive plans that link large commissions or bonuses to individual results metrics, such as territory quota achievement. New Sales Management and Culture. This involves changes such as: Deploying new sales team structures.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

But far fewer understand and operationalize the core sales factors that materially affect each value creation lever. Hence, the customer-selection criteria of sales managers, and call patterns of sales reps, directly impact the first value-creation lever: which projects the firm invests in. But consider the basics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

But just as in the military, talented top officers can't make up for weakness in the ranks of frontline leaders, the mid-level managers who are vital in driving day-to-day sales performance. "In But you cannot get along without first-line sales managers.". As people managers, weak FLMs: •Hire the wrong salespeople.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

alone spend more than $20 billion annually (by conservative estimates) to train salespeople on products, selling skills, and territory management, demonstrates the widespread belief that you can help “make” salespeople great. direct sales, selling partners, inside sales, e-channels) or sales role (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

HP's dilemma illustrates one of many two-edged swords of sales management. These swords are reasonable choices that sales leaders make that have a sharp beneficial edge, but the very nature of the benefit is tied to another sharp edge that has drawbacks. . Sales is full of such double-edged swords. Unreasonably so.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

A district sales manager says: "These district sales rankings are unfair. Market potential also enables better tactical sales force decision-making. Coaching and performance management. If sales managers know account potential, they can coach salespeople on the best strategies for driving revenue growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

The solution: Recognize that when you downsize the sales force, you downsize your sales, too. Gradual sales job reduction can be effective when the need to make cuts is not urgent and the process is well-managed. Ask a sales manager to participate in the transition.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

” Coaching, performance management, and sales goals reinforce communication, while metrics track performance: “What gets measured gets done.” First-line sales managers also helped boost motivation by encouraging salespeople and recognizing their successes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

” No manager wants to hear that someone on their team has another job offer in hand. “Whether or not the employee ends up taking the other offer, this is a rich opportunity,” says Dick Grote performance management consultant and author of the HBR Tools on Goal Setting and Performance Reviews.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Achieving sales force excellence, or addressing a sales opportunity or challenge (such as revitalizing growth or enhancing customer retention), typically requires improving upon a mixture of several sales force effectiveness drivers. Set sales force goals that are challenging, fair, and well-understood by the sales force.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

You’ve probably encountered managers you admire more for their technical skills than for their actual leadership skills. In other words, organizations manage careers so that everyone “rises to the level of their incompetence.” And if so, how do organizations manage around the Peter Principle?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In these and many other similar (but often less high-profile) cases, much of the blame gets placed on the sales goals and incentives. Salespeople are offered a large monetary reward linked to the achievement of sales goals — goals that employees perceive as excessively high. Things escalate and spread from there.

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AIHR

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It helps draft better job descriptions and develop effective training and development programs, leads to a safer work environment and more effective workforce planning, and is pivotal in performance management. Managing expectations about waiting times. We’ll discuss all you need to know about job analysis in this article.

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AIHR

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In a senior role, they may need to manage teams, make important decisions, oversee larger projects, or lead strategic initiatives. An employer promotes a Payroll Executive to Payroll Manager. While still on the same level, they now have: Project management duties Mentorship responsibilities 3.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

What really matters is how technology, data, and analytics can help salespeople, sales managers, and leaders improve fundamental sales force decisions and processes. Helping sales managers. business demographics) and sales force input. These are valid concerns, but here is the crux of it all.

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