There are thousands of posts, hundreds of books that examine every nuance of sales enablement and performance management. Billions are spent in advanced or specialized sales training programs or sales enablement tools.
Last week, a sales executive at a large manufacturing company told me that his phones have stopped ringing. “We have the best products in the world,” he said, “but we’re losing ground.”
Are you looking forward to what 2016 has to offer? Like most sales leaders, I’m sure you are eager to dive once again into managing your B2B sales team. Whether you plan to redesign your sales compensation plan, increase the headcount of your sales team or implement a new sales process, one thing is certain: next year will be an exciting journey.
If it is one thing research shows time and time again, it is that top performing sales organizations adopt a structured approach to the way they sell. A key component of this structure is the sales process, which should reinforce the right behaviors and guide each member of the sales team towards the right next action.
According to Sales Benchmark Index, across the industry as a whole, 83% of sales revenues are generated by only 13% of the sales population. And even if the asymmetry within your own sales organisation is less pronounced, it’s a reasonably safe assumption that there is some sort of significant imbalance between the best and the rest.
As I engage with sales organizations around the globe, I’m sometimes surprised how respectable companies lack a modern sales infrastructure and accept old (bad) habits, causing yearly losses in the millions.
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