Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

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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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. regardless of the business sales skills of their salespeople.

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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

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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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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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. Adjust your recruitment process to hire for potential.

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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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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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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.” However, not all the data was updated correctly.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Many will argue for the team of excellent salespeople: "It's salespeople — not managers — who develop and nurture the customer relationships that drive sales.". Replacing one average manager is easier than replacing an entire team of average salespeople.". "An An excellent salesperson doesn't need managing.".

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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

AUGUST 8, 2012

Until quite recently, business education might have been perfectly justified in skipping over sales. Perhaps a formal sales education couldn't add much to that. Sales, in contrast, got little respect. Within universities sales was at best a stepchild of marketing. Old-school sales was no-school sales.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In sales, where charisma and extroversion can be advantages, some people attribute success more to inborn personality traits than to skills that can be coached or taught. ”) But there’s a big difference between individual success in sales and success across an entire sales force. .”) Organization.

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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. Even in sales, network performance now accounts for about 44% of the impact. On the most effective sales teams, particularly B2B, the individual no longer reigns supreme.

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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. A fair payment scheme, it turned out, was a more powerful motivator than a generous pay scheme.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

To build a great company, it's important to have strong executives leading the sales organization. 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

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

But how do you identify which attributes (characteristics and competencies) belong in your sales success profile? Perhaps the best source, and one that is too frequently overlooked, comes from within your own sales force — your best salespeople. Most sales leaders think that they know who their best performers are.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces, which is three times more than they spend on all ad media. Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms. Yet, on average, companies deliver only 50% to 60% of the financial performance that their strategies and sales forecasts have promised.

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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. So how do you manage this hugely important sales input?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Recruiting. Denver Post/Getty Images. Talent matters. Interviewing and Hiring.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Recruiting. Denver Post/Getty Images. Talent matters. Interviewing and Hiring.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2016

The trend is heating up the sales field as well, enabling entirely new ways of selling. For example, AI applications can take over the time-consuming tasks of initiating contact with a sales lead and then qualifying, following up, and sustaining the lead. But what do they mean for sales — and the people who do it?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Many firms talk about talent management, but few deal systematically with a basic fact: average annual turnover in sales is 25 to 30%. This means that the equivalent of the entire sales organization must be hired and trained every four years or so, and that’s expensive. Consider these stats.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Even the best sales forces can’t keep every good salesperson. Poaching of salespeople also occurs when sales are driven largely by relationships. Poaching of salespeople also occurs when sales are driven largely by relationships. Managing the Withdrawal Period. First-line sales managers are critical to this effort.

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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 4, 2015

Redman offers this example scenario: Suppose you’re a sales manager trying to predict next month’s numbers. Perhaps people in your organization even have a theory about what will have the biggest effect on sales. ” “Six weeks after the competitor’s promotion, sales jump.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Boeing is America’s largest exporter and the only American defense contractor to have crossed $2 billion in sales to India. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. Two years later sales were stagnant in dollar terms.

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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 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

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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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

JUNE 6, 2016

She reported to the head of sales, who reported to the COO, and she and Brad rarely interacted at work. There were whispers from some of the younger women and what felt like relentless, albeit good-natured, teasing from the guys on the sales team. Claudia was the newest recruit to the sales team—young, eager, pretty.

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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

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. sales and marketing). The analysis involves determining the optimal number of employees who can report directly to a manager.

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