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3 Places Sales Leaders Should Look if You Missed the Number in 2012

SBI Growth

But you can excel in 2013 because of your shortcomings in 2012. And with these answers come chances for improvement in 2013. Talent Assessment of Sales Leadership and Sales Reps. It’s easy to make talent decisions based more on gut reaction than facts. Sales teams can generate their own leads.

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Can Your 1.0 Talent Succeed in a Sales 2.0 World?

SBI Growth

They only report history and offer little predictive insight to make course corrections. For example, the sales metric of "revenue performance" is a lagging indicator. Every sales organization needs a mix of leading and lagging indicators for human capital. These are essential to navigate the journey to Sales 2.0.

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An ‘A’ Player’s Rise and Fall

SBI Growth

You will learn if you possess the relevant skills of an “A” player sales leader. You will get a view to what others are doing to make the number. Dave was promoted to be Acme’s VP of Sales for the Americas. Assessed his sales leadership team and realized he needed to upgrade 3 of his sales directors.

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How to Become a Sales Ops Leader To Watch

SBI Growth

SBI recently accepted nominations for the Top Sales Operations Leaders to Watch in 2013. Each one of these individuals has been identified as an outstanding Sales Ops leader. This post provides a strategy for making the list in 2014. There''s a good chance you''ll have a new VP of Sales within the next year.

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The Sales Leader Pledge: Will You Take the Oath?

SBI

You can network across a growing array of social and business platforms and talk to your fellow sales leaders. It is all too clear that there are specific, fundamental elements of sales leadership that seem forever unresolved, no matter which ‘linkage’ attracts the greatest number of ‘followers’. . I will take charge of change.

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How to Boost Sales Team Morale Before Year-End

Tenfold

Barely a month before the year ends, the pressure is on to reach targets and make quotas. Sales gamification is a tried-and-tested strategy towards achieving an immediate boost in employee engagement, however short run. 71 percent of these enjoy spikes in their sales performance by 11 percent to 50 percent. It’s crunch time!

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The Biggest 2013 HR Challenge for Sales is 2014

SBI Growth

During the interview, I was surprised to hear the biggest HR challenge for 2013. This B2B technology provider already has world-class sales talent. They practice Topgrading ; they rigorously develop their sales teams. Their challenge is the evolution of how their customers make buying decisions. They are evolving.