It’s a no-brainer that motivated sales teams enjoy their work more and do their work better, resulting in a healthier bottom line. However, achieving this doesn’t come from cracking jokes all day (What’s the best way to stay happy at work? Take longer vacations!) and expecting morale to be high.…...
Set goals for employees with these 5 strategies
Set goals for employees to boost engagement When employees don’t feel supported in their goals — or don’t see opportunities for advancement within their company — they become disengaged. They’re less productive, more likely to miss work, and — as noted above — they eventually leave for a better gig.…...
Tips on Establishing Your Own Sales Hiring Process
Whether it be deciding on the right time to hire salespeople or identifying potential candidates, developing a sales hiring process will certainly help streamline recruitment decisions. A clear and comprehensive sales hiring process can save resources, reduce turnover, and produce an efficient sales team. Devising a thorough process in objective…...
Virtual Sales Team: 8 Tips for Managing a Successful Team
Managing virtual sales teams is becoming a common theme in the workplace. As times change, so does the average worker. Many companies are turning to virtual sales teams to save money on office space and create a flexible working atmosphere. This trend will most likely continue to increase with the…...
What Is Sales Management?
Sales management is how sales managers organize, motivate, and lead their sales reps while tracking — and improving — team performance. This includes hiring top talent, training sales staff, coordinating operations across the sales department, and implementing a cohesive sales strategy that drives business revenues. Think of it like a…...
How to Motivate Your Sales Team: 9 Tried-and-True Strategies
Motivation is more than Vince Lombardi quotes and quirky posters on the wall. It’s one of the most important components of sustained sales success over time. As a sales manager or director, you can only influence your team’s sales performance in two dimensions: Their skill set (what they can do)…...
8 strategic tips on how to sustain a high-performing sales team
In sales, you are only as good as your last deal. Every day, week, month, or quarter is a fresh start where, once again, your team needs to gear up and deliver. Great sales leaders are able to push or pull a team whether they are at 120% or at…...
6 Characteristics of the Most Effective Sales Leaders
Sales is a cutthroat industry that can be incredibly difficult to succeed in. One key element of any sales team is an effective sales leader – they can mean the difference between teams struggling to hit their quotas and consistently exceeding them. A strong leader can identify strengths and weaknesses…...
The 16 Do’s of Highly Effective Sales Managers
Ronald Reagan once said, “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” As sales managers, we may not be leaders of the free world, but we are uniquely positioned to influence and…...
6 Steps for Recruiting Top Sales Talent
In 2020, companies in virtually every industry had to turn their sales strategies on their heads. Account executives accustomed to wining and dining clients had to find new ways to build rapport virtually. Sales managers had to learn how to motivate and manage their teams remotely. Companies had to figure…...
3 Tips to Make Your Weekly Team Meetings More Effective
Taking the time to strategize, clarifying your immediate and long-term goals is essential for a well-run, successful team. Weekly meetings should be an essential part of any organization that is striving to work as a cohesive unit. Unfortunately, not all meetings are productive endeavors and they often tend to be…...
5 Ways to Measure the Performance of a Sales Manager
This article provides specific and practical techniques for measuring the performance of your company’s sales managers. Perhaps no position in the sales organization has less accountability than the sales manager position—in part because many companies don’t know how to measure sales manager performance. For example, the primary (and sometimes only)…...
What to Expect of Great Sales Leadership
“How do I build a great sales culture at my company?” I get that question often from small business owners. And what I always share is that it starts with your leaders. When hiring for sales leadership roles, you have to think well beyond just promoting an experienced account executive…...
Five Simple Strategies for Motivating Your Sales Team
Everyone has a set of factors that influence their performance at work—some of these factors are work related, but many are not. The same goes for motivation; what motivates one employee might discourage another. Many managers gravitate towards complicated reward systems, accountability strategies, or other similar tactics that promise to…...
The Cost Of A Bad Hire
Hiring the wrong sales leader or salesperson can seriously hinder your business in more than one way. Why aren’t more companies taking the necessary steps to make sure their new person is right for their company? Financial Cost When it comes to the cost associated with a bad hire, people…...
The 5 Demands of a Competent Sales Leader
The word “demand” or “demanding” can induce an adverse reaction, and not without good reason. The way we are using the word “demanding” here does not point to the autocrat or despotic leader, who doesn’t care about their people. The term “demand” as we are using it here means being…...
