In today’s day and age, the rate of growth for sales accelerates at a striking pace. According to research from InsideSales.com, sales leaders project a 30.5% year-over-year sales growth from 2016, up from the 23% growth reported in 2015.
What’s more, average deal sizes climbed 5.5% in 2015 and 17.1% of companies are using predictive technologies to successfully drive up deal size.
So what’s going to really set you apart in such a competitive market? Your modern sales team, of course.
5 Key Modern Sales Team Components
Let’s make sure you have these 5 elements already in place. If not, take some time to work through them, as they provide the basis for your modern sales team:
- Recognize the sales industry has changed: Buyers have changed, which means that sellers and sales leaders need to change, too.
- Define meaningful metrics: The key performance indicators (KPI) for your organization should be a mix of leading metrics (controllable behaviors) and lagging metrics (outcomes of behaviors).
- Implement company-wide visibility: Sales reps and leaders benefit when KPIs are tracked on personal scorecards and team leaderboards.
- Coach around KPIs: The one-on-one meeting is the time to pause and review or adjust behaviors based on how reps are performing against their KPIs.
- Evaluate your sales stack: Ensure the sales technology you purchased is enabling your sales process, not distracting away from it.
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What Else Makes a Modern Sales Team? (According to Experts)
Now that you’ve got the basics in place, give these tips from top sales experts a read, and choose 3 to really focus on. Once you have those implemented, consider moving on to the additional advice provided.
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