Imagine if 96% of the people you hire one year later would not only be working for you but performing at a higher level than the candidates you’d hired previously for this position.
Strategic Discipline Blog
Topics: People Decisions, Objective Management Group, Topgrading, Sales Evaluation, Sales Candidate Assessment
Perhaps the most surprising results from the RAINGroup.com’s What Sales Winners Do Differently research were the top two things that winners do more often than second place finishers:
Topics: Sales Process, Objective Management Group, Sales Training, Sales Evaluation, What Sales Winners Do Differently, RAINGroup.com, Sales Candidate Assessment
Connecting. In our monthly sales training with one of my clients we’ve established that building rapport, respect, trust and the relationship is the most important part of the sales process. The RAINGroup.com’s study What Sales Winners Do Differently includes tips and research that diminish this aspect of selling in today’s environment.
Topics: Sales Process, Sales Training, Sales Evaluation, What Sales Winners Do Differently, Sales Discipline, Connecting
Determining how to compensate your sales team or person is often one of the biggest challenges a business can face. Finding capable sales people is a challenge onto itself and then determining who the keepers are makes this muddier. If you want to keep the performers, you have to come up with a formula that pays them for performance and yet doesn’t hook the company too long compensating them just for potential. One of our strategic partners, Dave Kurlan of Objective Management Group wrote a blog Sales Force Compensation - X Marks the Spot that offers great insights in the process of rewarding your sales staff.
Topics: Objective Management Group, Sales Training, Sales Evaluation
Last blog we discussed the Fourth Discipline, developing work process flow charts. Would it surprise you to discover that 91% of small to midsized business don’t have a formal structured sales process? One of our strategic partners is Objective Management Group. OMG is the originator of sales force evaluations and have evaluated over 8500 different sales forces, and 450,000 sales people. Most of the businesses they evaluate are larger companies since in order to evaluate sales teams; you need four or more sales people and managers. The 91% number comes for their evaluations of these 8500 companies. You can imagine what that number might be for sales teams smaller than 4 people.
Topics: Work Process Flow Charts, Objective Management Group, priorities, Sales Evaluation, Sales Discipline