Tag: Sales Force

The Gist:

• Leadership isn't an easy role, especially when it comes to leading a sales force.
• There are many ways a leader might unintentionally ruin their sales force.
• Reversing the factors that ruin a sales force will help make your…

The Gist:

• There are only two ways to acquire the talent you need: buy it or build it.
• Many leaders mistakenly believe it is easier to buy talent than build it and are disappointed with their results.
• Building talent is not only a more…

The Gist:

• Some sales organizations have sliced up their sale roles, believing that they are increasing efficiency.
• Clients generally don’t find being qualified a valuable experience.
• To create value in early sales conversations, start…

Salespeople need to be good business people. Why? Because business acumen is the new sales acumen.

You don’t create value by overcoming objections but by resolving concerns. You don’t create value by pitching features and benefits unless they…

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet.

There are three reports a sales manager…

Sales enablement is an important role with lofty goals. The mission extends way beyond sales operations; it includes sales management and sales leadership. But what are you enabling?

Are you enabling your team to do their very best work? Are you…

Today I was a panelist at my friend Gerhard Gschwandtner’s Sales 2.0 conference. It’s a great conference; you should attend next time. Gerhard opened the show with a keynote about the power of video in sales enablement.

But Gerhard didn’t just…

Every sales organization has a spiritual sales leader.

There is a sort of religion that develops within the sales organization, and the spiritual leader establishes and maintains that religion. The rest of the salesforce looks to the spiritual…

You were a great salesperson. You were truly special. Selling came easy to you.

You were born with the ability to create rapport. You like people and they like you. People have always trusted you, and you’ve always taken on more responsibility…

Value is the killer app in sales. Without it, you are relegated to competing on price. Here’s why your sales force is unprepared to create value and what to do about it.

No Business Acumen: Your sales force doesn’t have the business acumen, the…