SBI Growth

APRIL 24, 2013

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. There''s a good chance you''ll have a new VP of Sales within the next year. That new VP will have certain expectations of his Sales Ops leadership.

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Leadership Sales Acquisition Sales Leadership 103

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Ramp Time to Full Sales Productivity: Amount of time required to reach role maturity. Career Progression: Ability to source sales leadership from within the organization. Finish up 2012 with your current metrics and then implement a clean slate for 2013. Identify new forward-looking metrics for 2013.

Sales 113

Sales Sales Leadership Decision-making Organization 113

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Sales leadership is hard. Of all the new capabilities leaders could drive, here were seven that stood out in 2013. How many of the top seven from 2013 did you acquire? When looking at your next sales improvement project, ask yourself: Will the team acquire a new capability? How many did you and your team acquire?

Acquisition 113

Acquisition Sales Leadership Prioritization Leadership 113

SBI Growth

APRIL 2, 2013

It’s been a rough couple of quarters for the VP-Sales. SKO got your team fired up for 2013 and a new start. VP-Sales (You). What about your sales support resources? Sales Leadership Cadence. You’re the VP-Sales – if you can’t move the needle, who can? Your 2012 finish was below average.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

These bullets, by the way, are great indicators for Sales Management to step in when first known in order to take Reps out of this risk category. If an HR leader is on top of this, their proactivity in approaching Sales Leadership will be well received. Determine if the leaving Sales Rep is worth keeping.

Sales 115

Sales Sales Leadership Sales Management Leadership 115

SBI Growth

JULY 8, 2013

Altimeter Group research checked for formalized customer-facing social media efforts for sales. My colleague took his own informal poll on the floor of SHRM 2013. About half of them said their policies prevented sales reps from social selling. It’s time for a social media policy to allow sales to socially sell.

Suppliers 128

Suppliers Media Government B2B 128

SBI Growth

JULY 13, 2013

He wanted his direct reports (Sales Directors) to see how it was done. Assessed his sales leadership team and realized he needed to upgrade 3 of his sales directors. In July, decided to roll out a sales process across the Americas. The EVP of WW Sales was disappointed. He was expecting a faster impact.

Decision-making 124

Decision-making B2B Sales Leadership Sales Management 124

SBI Growth

MAY 29, 2013

Does your current sales training disrupt sales performance? Download our Agile Sales Training Guide. Developed from our Quarter 1 2013 research, It does two things. What is Agile Sales Training? Agile Sales Training is defined as adaptive and iterative training. It can give you back selling time.

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Sales Training e-Learning Sales Sales Leadership 122

SBI Growth

APRIL 30, 2013

Here’s an example of why it should be applied to Sales Leadership: Meet ''Just Getting by'' Jeff. Jeff has been a sales manager for 5 years. He was promoted after consistently high performance as a sales rep. Anthony''s Key Activities for 2013. Agile encourages rapid and flexible response to change.

Sales 123

Sales Sales Management Sales Leadership Meetings 123

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

In 2013, American companies alone spent $164.2 in 2013 on hiring sales training companies, one of the top five outsourced training expenditures, according to Training Industry. It features his renowned seminars on leadership, sales, and management effectiveness. Companies spent approximately $2.2B

Sales Training 112

Sales Training Sales Publishing Co-Creation 112

SBI

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

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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Decision-making Sales Sales Leadership Marketing 54

SBI Growth

JANUARY 18, 2013

This post will focus on a single example of HR’s positive impact for a sales organization. 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. And beyond.

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Decision-making Sales Leadership Sales Leadership 117

Tenfold

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Likewise, a 2013 Harvard Business School study has found that work productivity increases when employees are given unexpected financial gifts. A significant increase in income. The Gallup report has found that 41 percent of employees deem salary increases as very important for morale and work engagement.

Sales 61

Sales Decision-making Publishing Communication 61

SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2012

." - Jack Welch Are you questioning the ability of your sales leader to take your revenue performance to the next level? In your next board meeting, they will ask what you will do differently to make the number in 2013. To hire a top-performing sales leader, you have to remove legacy aspects of your recruiting strategy.

Decision-making 107

Decision-making Leadership Publishing Sales Leadership 107

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The ability to demonstrate marketing's return on investment is at the top of every CMO's plan for 2013. Build credibility with sales leadership by providing a reliable view of demand generation campaign success. The ROI picture has been elusive as marketers struggle to capture the full impact of marketing’s contribution.

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Marketing Media Acquisition Sales Leadership 117