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Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team

Harvard Business Review

As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise. The result is poor management of what matters. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics.

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

To avoid this, some companies establish a Strategic Deal Profile — guidelines and parameters that its sales force can use in conversations with actual customers — and make it part of selling behaviors through performance management practices. Following a strategic “Deal Profile.

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