LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Impact of Great Sales Managers Companies that focus simply on the skills of their sales reps and neglect to provide targeted sales management training for sales leaders overlook a critical leverage point to increase sales performance. So, What Makes a Great Sales Manager?

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AIHR

JUNE 19, 2023

For example, this could involve identifying a future skill the business needs and organizing training to nurture that skill within the workforce or recruiting more staff. Recruitment and hiring strategies. At some point, you’ll need to recruit new employees from outside the business.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

You'll find this list of the ten most common mistakes made by sales managers toward the very end of Kevin Davis ' latest book about how to sync your sales approach with your customer's buying process : Failing to shift from "super salesperson" mode to managerial mindset. Being inconsistent in your recruiting and hiring process.

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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. Adjust your recruitment process to hire for potential. One of your crucial recruiting goals should be to attract and recruit high potentials.

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AIHR

JULY 10, 2023

Organizations are beginning to recognize that recruiting and retaining top talent is essential for meeting business goals and maintaining a competitive advantage. Contents What is shortlisting in recruitment? When does shortlisting occur in the recruitment process? When does shortlisting occur in the recruitment process?

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AIHR

JULY 6, 2023

Role descriptions are instrumental in the recruitment process to attract suitable candidates and serve as a basis for performance evaluation and career development within the organization. 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.

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Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Your content can also be a recruiting pitch, bringing in top talent that shares your passion and wants to be part of a better solution. Eric shares how thought leadership is important for the sales team, helping them understand and share the organization’s goals and values right from the moment of hiring. Eric Youngstrom Yeah.

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AIHR

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Then, to ensure recruits understand and embrace the culture, they complete a four-week ‘boot camp’ where they receive training in all departments of the company and are immersed in its philosophies and values. I also initiated a recruitment process to fill the vacant position.” ” 15. What did you learn from the situation?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Most studies suggest the cost per departed solution sales rep to be between $500,000 to $1,000,000 depending upon their role, tenure and industry. And those shockingly high figures do not include the time and money you need to spend to recruit, interview and train their replacement. The Top Three Reasons Behind High Sales Attrition.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

"Replacing one average manager is easier than replacing an entire team of average salespeople.". "An An excellent salesperson doesn't need managing.". Others will argue for the excellent manager: "Excellent managers consistently recruit the best sales talent. Of the $20+ billion that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

On the other hand, most businesses are operating with traditional models of salesperson recruitment and training. 15 billion is spent per year on sales training. Given the importance of skills and capabilities to sales performance, businesses need to reconsider who they recruit into sales roles, and how they train them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Every leader knows that the compensation plan plays an important role in recruiting and retaining the best talent. We saw dramatic evidence of this in a study conducted by our sister program, CLC Compensation , which looked at sales comp. Matthew Dixon is Managing Director of the Corporate Executive Board's Sales and Service Practice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

To the extent that instruction on how to sell was needed, the demand was met by a sales-training industry that included companies such as Axiom, FranklinCovey, and Miller Heiman. Within universities sales was at best a stepchild of marketing. Old-school sales was no-school sales. Fortunately, things have changed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

To add to that, the groups are far apart on basic elements such as recruiting, hiring, training, and role alignment. Simultaneously, sales managers went through a series of development sessions to develop their coaching skills. They changed their hiring/recruiting efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

Sales managers have a difficult relationship with luck. As a consequence, many sales managers de-emphasize luck, instead stressing the importance of stable, measurable, and controllable factors such as motivation and specific behaviors. They love it when it’s helping their teams, but they know how unreliable it is.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It's not enough to only rely on performance rankings, competency model assessments, and sales manager input. By assessing territory sales and sales growth relative to market opportunity, you can separate the impact of territory factors from the impact of a salesperson's ability and effort on performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

"In any sales force, you can get along without the vice president of sales, the regional sales directors, and the training manager," a sales leader once told us. But you cannot get along without first-line sales managers.". Take a backseat while giving team members credit for success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

We recruited 250 experienced purchasing and sales managers and allocated them between the experiments. Carter at Arizona State University, we simulated a negotiation episode between two firms. The buying firm, a tablet manufacturer, was interested in procuring an innovative hard disk drive model.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Getting them to market demands more than corporate systems can handle, so they must beg for IT upgrades, recruit and budget themselves, and even take on sales responsibilities to explain innovations to customers — which adds to the workload. So much pressure, yet they don’t seem to care about the money?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Poaching of salespeople also occurs when sales are driven largely by relationships. For example, wealth management companies frequently recruit advisors who have built a strong book of business at competitive firms. Minimizing withdrawal period sales loss requires a proactive approach.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

At the same time, the size of the sales force may be inadequate, leading to insufficient customer coverage (if there are too few salespeople) or excessive cost (if there are too many). The third component in making a great sales force focuses on talent – having and executing defined approaches for acquiring talent (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales teams must meet the immediate needs of their customers, respond issue by issue and account by account, and meet quarterly goals. As one sales manager noted, “In this job, if you don’t survive the short term, you don’t need to worry about the long term.” Recruiting. Talent matters.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales teams must meet the immediate needs of their customers, respond issue by issue and account by account, and meet quarterly goals. As one sales manager noted, “In this job, if you don’t survive the short term, you don’t need to worry about the long term.” Recruiting. Talent matters.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2016

Gathering customer or product information to determine customer needs, processing sales or other transactions, taking product orders from customers, and preparing sales or other contracts collectively account for approximately three-quarters of a parts salesperson’s time — and all can be automated.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

” Previous experience is the most common criterion used by sales managers in talent assessment. But because selling effectiveness depends upon a company’s sales tasks, “experience” is an inherently multidimensional attribute. ” Be clear about what you mean by relevant “experience.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Ninety percent of the team was recruited from beyond the insurance industry to enable it to challenge the status quo approach to decision-making. Don’t make the effort dependent on one or two initiatives : adopt a portfolio approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. We’ve also seen an increase in importance of network performance at the manager level. How can we signal to our reps that network performance is not only desirable but expected?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

In addition to recruiting team members with a mix of skills and experience, you’ll want to include individuals with a blend of different preferred think­ing styles, or unconscious ways of looking at and interacting with the world. The sales manager who is interested in art history may be your best big-picture thinker.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Forty years ago, two companies were known for aggressively recruiting minorities on college campuses: IBM and Xerox , both considered hot tech companies of that era. My senior year in college, a black sales rep from IBM encouraged me and a group of fellow black students to consider a career with the company. Hayon Thapaliya.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

We recruited 106 full-time workers of varying levels of seniority from across a number of industries to complete our study online. Each person played the role of a sales manager and answered a series of questions about the business they “worked” for.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

First of all, headquarters needs to be clear about their vision of their role in India over the next 2-5 years and recruit to match that vision.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Claudia was the newest recruit to the sales team—young, eager, pretty. A recruiter had contacted her just last week about a role at a Fortune 500—a big, impersonal organization where no one knew or cared about anyone else’s love life. Do you know who else was going?” “Um, I think Claudia?

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AIHR

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A job analysis is conducted by employees themselves, managers, Organizational Development (OD) professionals, or HR professionals for various purposes. This is also helpful in recruitment. HR can use the obtained information in their activities like recruitment, learning & development, and performance management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Redman offers this example scenario: Suppose you’re a sales manager trying to predict next month’s numbers. “As managers, we want to figure out how we can impact sales or employee retention or recruiting the best people. He also advises organizations on their data and data quality programs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Ninety percent of the team was recruited from beyond the insurance industry to enable it to challenge the status quo approach to decision-making. Don’t make the effort dependent on one or two initiatives : adopt a portfolio approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

. “I knew that if I could connect my own career path to the company’s overarching goals, it would make my promotion more compelling for upper management.” The job would involve managing the HR team, and also recruiting and hiring for the company itself. “You have to own your career.”

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AIHR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The span of control (also referred to as the span of management) is a calculation that assists HR in determining the number of employees reporting directly to a manager. For example, the average span of control for a sales team could be 10 salespeople per manager. What to consider when analyzing the span of control.

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