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Start Managing Using Your Sales Team’s Talents & Stop Focusing on Their Weaknesses
From you role in sales management, do you manage from a perspective focusing on existing talents or from a weakness one? If you truthfully answered from a more negative than positive focus, then can you answer this question?: Why do winning teams win because of their strengths or their weaknesses? Now is the team to change your management style especially if you wish to increase sales and have a high performance sales team.
What should I look for when I hire a salesperson?
Over the years, I have personally hired and developed many talented salespeople across multiple industries, and for me it's always about finding and developing salespeople who possess the 6P's for Sales Success:

Five Considerations in Selecting a GREAT Sales Manager
At times, VP's of Sales, entrepreneurs, and small business owners need to select a sales manager to lead a sales team. How do they select the right person? What considerations are important? What are five important areas for selection criteria - ones that make a performance difference in a sales manager's role, and ones that we want to pay attention to when evaluating candidates?
UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL AND OPERATING RATIOS
The analysis of ratios can and will prevent most business bankruptcies. The analysis of ratios can and will maximize your company's profit, sales, productivity potential. This article includes 31 of the most important ratios worth tracking. Each ratio includes the formula (so you don't need to go to your accountant)plus what the ratio could mean to your business.

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Ten Strategic Actions To Improve Sales Staff Productivity
How effective is your sales staff? Are they a high performance team, a mediocre performance team or a woefully “underachieving” and blatantly poor performance team? If you have mediocre, underachieving or poor sales people, what are you doing to change that? If your sales staff is not effective, not performing to its potential and is in need of improved performance, Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers ten (10) strategic actions to take to change that.

Field Sales Training Accompaniment
The purpose of the field sales visit is to review and analyse performance of the sales person – to observe performance, to catch them doing something right and to correct and retrain where needed.
Empowering Sales Beliefs
The sales results you create are based on your performance. Performance has many components for example, our activities and abilities that are typically where many organisations focus on. Yet beneath the surface, our beliefs about ourselves, our customers, our job, can either help or hinder our performance.

You can’t improve salespeople without improving sales management first
I am constantly appalled at the lack of effective sales management in companies these days. Not a week goes by in which I don't see a company make the mistake of focusing exclusively on salespeople in trying to improve sales performance. Experience has shown that sales managers are even more critical than sales people for creating durable performance change
How To Evaluate The Performance Of Your Top Sales Executive
This article present the performance appraisal factors that should be used to assess the performance of a top sales executive. Also, it provides the format of a monthly sales call report that should be used to record the sales call activity of sales reps.
Creating an effective sales performance management system
Following on from last week’s article about managing and measuring the right things in sales, I thought it would be worth looking at some of the key principles for effective sales performance management systems. The first place to start is to align your sales performance management system and subsequent key measures to your organisation’s strategy and goals. It’s then the job of the CEO and the Sales Leader to ensure the organisation (that means everyone else who supports the sales effort) is aligned to the sales performance management system. When this dimension is in place the organisation is best placed to sustain high sales performance.
Performance Management
A relatively new management buzz phrase, performance management, has been gaining popularity recently. Management, particularly sales management, has always been about getting results so clearly whatever sales managers have been doing prior to the emergence of this new concept should also be known as performance management. The article explains the tasks required to maximize performance.
Sales Compensation Plans: Improve Your Plan to Boost Your Profitability
Everywhere I go, CEOs complain that their sales compensation plans don’t seem to work as well as they had hoped. A bad sales compensation plan effectively converts “pay-for-performance” into “pay-for-non-performance.” If your sales incentive plan doesn’t create a win-win-win-for you, your salesperson and the customer-it is bound to fail sooner or later. Here are six key features of a winning sales compensation plan.
Don’t Make This Sales Management Mistake
You need to set the tone and set out a vision of where you want the team to head, over-performance from a sales performance standpoint. As far as leading and motivating, it comes down to individual tactics and techniques that you need to use with each one of your sales people because they are all motivated by different forces.
The Importance of Sales Management Motivation
The difference between sales performance above expectation and sales performance below expectation is largely determined by small things that a sales manager can do every day to keep his sales team at the top of their game and highly motivated.
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