How are you doing at overcoming sales obstacles currently? There are always obstacles in sales, but in our pandemic filled world, the obstacles are greater. However, the rewards are greater, too. I’m going to walk you through 10 sales obstacles that salespeople are facing right now in the pandemic and…...
What Sales Leaders Should Do in Their First 6 Months
A lot of the tactics and responsibilities effective sales leaders need to understand and fulfill aren't exactly intuitive. They can be tough to nail and navigate — especially if you're just settling into your role. While there's no be-all-end-all playbook for effective sales leadership, there are some tricks and strategies…...
4 Questions Sales Leaders Should Be Asking Right Now
Whether a business faces a sales slump or sales bump in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s difficult for sales leaders to predict what comes next. Most have already taken urgent actions, such as moving to virtual selling, redeploying sales effort, and reducing sales force capacity if faced with…...
How to lead a sales team without micromanaging everyone
Managing people can be tough. Managing a sales team can be even more challenging with all the priorities, tasks, pressure from the C-Suite and the stress of hitting monthly or quarterly quotas. The most challenging part of the sales job is having the right balance between not enough or too…...
Why You Believe There Are No Good Salespeople
Entrepreneurs and leaders often complain that there are “no good salespeople” available in their market. Maybe you’ve muttered that yourself. But even if the salespeople you hired didn’t produce good results, the truth is that there are good salespeople in every market! As a leader, it’s your responsibility to attract them and get…...
5 Questions Sales Leaders Ask to Improve Sales Performance
Inquiry is a powerful motivator. We use it to fuel conversations, problem-solve, and, ultimately, improve sales performance. High-value questions are a driving force to much-needed mental shifts — especially in today’s environment. When your mindset changes, so does your behavior. As sales leaders, we can’t control market conditions, but we can influence…...
A Guide for Building A Successful Sales Culture
What is sales culture? And more importantly, what is a successful sales culture, and what does it look like? Creating a sales culture is no easy task, but it’s one we hear about all the time from our customers. From 100-person sales teams to 5,000-person sales teams, every sales leader wants to feel…...
How Sales Leaders Can Rise to the Occasion
Leadership is on our minds lately. And it seems we’re not alone. In times of turmoil and disruptive change, leaders are more valuable than ever. They provide guidance, confidence, and stability for teams facing uncertainty. They chart new roadmaps for scenarios where none currently exist. Strong leaders are indispensable at…...
How to Teach Empathy for Sales Teams
Can Empathy be taught? Empathy has always been a necessary part of a successful sale. Heck, I believe it’s a necessary part of being human, having happy relationships, being good at your job and leading a full life. Before COVID-19 happened, empathy was taken for granted. Now, however, in the…...
How Effective Sales Managers Improve Team Accountability & Performance
Effective sales managers focus on building more team accountability and performance. An accountable sales team is the byproduct of an effective sales manager who holds salespeople accountable for daily behaviors, activities, and results. Effective sales managers improve the team’s sales performance when they commit to consistent coaching and adopt the…...
Six Tips For Sales Leaders On More Effective Hiring
Hiring is one of the most important things we can do as a leader… and yet for many of the people we work with, it remains something of a blind spot. It’s not a skill set they make a conscious effort to improve. Yes, there are a lot of priorities,…...
Leadership Competencies to Help Your Team Improve
If you are a leader, you might look at this list to shore up any liabilities you might have that prevent you from helping your team put up their best results. You might also look at this list and measure whether you are doing enough to develop in some areas you need…...
3 Surprising Operational Lessons from High-Growth Sales Leaders
In fast-paced business environments, improving the effectiveness of our senior sales leaders can be a huge force-multiplier in the battle for revenue growth and team development. Unfortunately, being a senior sales leader at a high-growth company can be a lonely gig at times. While the role comes with weighty responsibilities,…...
7 Lessons for Leading Sales Orgs in a Recovering Market
For many sales organizations, it’s been a challenging few months. As Scott Barker, Sales Hacker’s Head of Partnerships, put it in our recent webinar, “Mastering the Transition to Digital Selling”: There aren’t very many jobs where you’re put in an environment where you almost feel guilty for doing your job. This…...
