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…...
Three Tips For Retaining Great Salespeople This Summer
Attracting and keeping good salespeople is at the top of every sales manager’s list of priorities. The better we are at inspiring and holding on to great salespeople, the happier, the more engaged, and the more successful they will be. Getting the best contributors to stick around makes our sales…...
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,…...
9 Critical Beliefs of a Confident Salesperson
One of the variables to success in sales is self-confidence. You create a sense of certainty for your clients when you are convicted about who you are, your ability to help produce better results, and the advice you provide them. When you are not confident, you create a sense of…...
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,…...
8 Tips to Advance Your Sales Career in Uncertain Times
No one could have predicted COVID-19, but the people who can adapt are the ones who will advance their sales careers during this time. With the current state of sales, everything is changing fast. Approximately 50% of B2B companies have reduced their budgets. Digital is now the preferred sales interaction, with a 250%…...
Lead Your Sales Team Through Uncertain Times
My first tour of duty as a VP of sales coincided with the onset of the 2001 recession. Often referred to as the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the recession worsened after the 9/11 attacks, and while the economy technically recovered in the fourth quarter of that year, unemployment continued…...
Playing for Keeps: Retaining and Growing High Performers
Jessica Klek is RVP of Enterprise Sales at SalesLoft, the leading sales engagement platform, helping sales organizations to deliver a better sales experience for their customers. I’ve always been intentional with my career. Even though my plan has changed many times, just having a plan gets you where you need to go.…...
5 Ways to Get Great Results from Your Sales Team!
Is your sales team struggling to meet their quotas? While even the best sales pros experience one or two bad months per year, witnessing deteriorating performance month after month should be a cause for concern. Not only is your sales team responsible for selling a brand's products or services,…...
6 Ways to Use a Whiteboard to Track Team Activity and Boost Your Business
With current growth projections among the leading companies in the U.S. becoming increasingly optimistic, developing innovative strategies that keep employees motivated and productive has become imperative in order to be competitive. In today’s candidate driven market, it is essential for a company’s long-term health to be able to not…...
Are You Missing This Powerful Selling Skill?
Sales organizations invest thousands of dollars in sales training every year. They offer such programs as lead generation, asking effective questions, negotiation, and account management.There’s good news and bad news when it comes to training. The good news is that the company is investing in its sales team’s professional development.…...
Are You Missing This Powerful Selling Skill?
Sales organizations invest thousands of dollars in sales training every year. They offer such programs as lead generation, asking effective questions, negotiation, and account management.There’s good news and bad news when it comes to training. The good news is that the company is investing in its sales team’s professional development.…...
