There’s a certain sound in the air these days. It’s a collective sigh of relief that the dog-eat-dog, every-rep-for-themselves approach to sales is on the way out.
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At the beginning of each fiscal year, many organizations hold a sales kick-off meeting (SKO). It typically brings together sales professionals, sales leaders, and their colleagues in areas like marketing and customer success.
MindTickle's new funding reflects important sales trends for 2018, including a focus on sales enablement, increased spending on technology and the use of analytics to measure impact and ROI.
To bridge the gap between businesses and their customers, people must be empowered and enabled to fully play their role. But the enablement of people is not only a matter of creating a training program that magically changes their behavior.
To sales teams overall and those responsible for developing sales talent in particular: Welcome to the Generational Imperative.
Recruiting, onboarding and training a sales organization is a balancing act to take seriously. As a sales leader, you're always on the lookout for people who offer the right personality and team fit combined with competency in selling skills.
Sales managers are arguably the critical success factor in most sales organizations:
Too often I’ve witnessed sales teams flown in to exotic locations only to be crammed into a 50 degree room for several very long days of PowerPoint, role plays and flip charts ad naseum.
Ongoing sales training is essential for every organization. Sales are a unique and ever-changing skill; however, sales programs are too often standardized and forgotten.
Having a healthy sales culture means that everyone within an organization, whether they are on the sales team or not, is actively engaged in the processes and activities that result in increased sales effectiveness.