Sales Outcomes
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Front-line sales managers are the key to enabling behavior change in salespeople. To that end, changes in sales manager behavior must come first; however, front-line sales managers live in a hectic environment – pressures from leadership, their teams, and other functions such as marketing, sales operations, HR, etc.
Louise Collins Associates
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
My observation across multiple organisations is that KAM often lacks the leadership required to make it work. In most organisations KAM sits within the sales directorate and the responsibility for leading key account teams sits with the first line sales manager. This is not the role of the first line sales manager.
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Sales Latitude
AUGUST 2, 2018
Whenever I coach sales people and sales managers, I ask them specific questions to see how much they know about their customers and prospects, with an eye towards understanding the quality of their pipeline. Do Thorough and Proactive Account Planning. Sure, ok – that’s true. But that’s not the whole picture.
Openview
MAY 11, 2018
The building blocks of developing a great sales team have not changed – recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training and development. However, the nuances within each discipline have modernized, requiring sales leadership playbooks to be updated. Here are 3 ways fast-growing startups build sales teams differently.
SBI Growth
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
Most sales organizations use documents with similar names. Opportunity Plans, Account Plans, etc. They contain things like key personnel, sales campaign objectives, competitor information and so on. Get the Word out – let the reps and sales managers take the spotlight for success. Not entirely.
Mike Kunkle
MAY 11, 2022
This includes an understanding of processes, political savvy, culture, collaboration, consensus building, and the ability to execute on all the above plans effectively. How to plan and organize effectively. Strategic Account Management. Territory Management. Account Planning. Sales Call Planning.
SBI
APRIL 4, 2018
Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? Garry: Selling tools from Outside In help B2B sales teams to increase competitive advantage. They do so by increasing the operational productivity of the sales team. Garry: First is to focus on sales leadership.
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