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How to Use a Sales Diagnostic to Improve Performance

The Center for Sales Strategy

Have you ever thought about how the 10,000 foot view from an airplane is often more interesting and illuminating than the proverbial 30,000 foot view? This is true when looking at a sales organization as well. We use a process called the Sales Diagnostic to take the 10,000 foot view. The 30,000-ft. The 30,000-ft.

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How to Measure the ROI of Your Sales Enablement Program

Mike Kunkle

In this post, I will offer advice about how to measure the ROI of your sales enablement program. I do have a video on this topic, from my newsletter, Sales Enablement Straight Talk , as an additional resource. This is why Buyer Acumen is the first block in the Building Blocks of Sales Enablement framework.

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Enablement is Hard. Do It Anyway.

Mike Kunkle

Purposefully orchestrating organizational performance improvement is difficult. The goal of “enablement,” whichever term you use for it (sales, revenue, buyer, buying, performance, other) is ultimately to improve organizational performance. Therefore, enablement is hard work. See what I did there?

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How Powerful are Your Conversations with Customers in Crisis?

Miller Heiman Group

Sales organizations can elevate their enterprise sales strategy by adopting a sales methodology designed to improve sellers’ conversational skills. That’s why we’ve developed our diagnostic, the Sales Conversation Metric. Consistently conduct mutually valuable sales calls.

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How to Resize and Retool Your Sales Force

Mike Kunkle

At the time I published it initially, I had hoped the worst of the pandemic-fueled layoffs were behind us. If you absolutely can’t avoid it and find yourself needing to resize and retool your sales force again at this time, I have some advice that I hope might help. This is a post I never wanted to write.

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The Sliding Scale of Sales Transformation

Mike Kunkle

Sales Transformation. I’ve been involved in sales transformations that were entirely focused on getting the best-possible performance out of the sales force (ranging from a 30 to 600 percent increase in sales), independent of retooling the rest of the organization. The Elements of Sales Force Effectiveness.

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How to Develop a Sales Enablement Plan That Delivers Results

Mike Kunkle

It’s a cruel twist of fate for senior sales and revenue leaders that as the year barrels toward a close with urgency to maximize the remaining time, that strategic and tactical planning for the next year must happen at the same time. And for sales enablement leaders who are integrated into the sales force they serve, it’s no different.