A bad sales management hire can cost your company a lot of money. $3.5 million, to be exact. So identifying strong candidates is no trivial task. Many organizations prefer to promote one of their own reps to sales management, keeping the process internal. That makes a lot of sense. Your current sales team already understands […]
When finalizing our product roadmap at LevelEleven earlier this year, we came across a fascinating stat: Over 50% of LevelEleven’s product innovations in 2016 were inspired by customers. What an insight! Our company is growing based on constructive feedback from our awesome community. Which made us realize… 2016 was the year of sales management evolution. […]
I know what you’re thinking: Who has time for another meeting? And you’d be right if we were talking about just another meeting. But that’s not it. This is the meeting that will change the way you interact with those you coach. Every person you manage has unique motivations. It’s your job to understand them. […]
Managing sales teams is very different than being a salesperson. And yet, high-performing sellers are often promoted to management roles with little or no leadership training. This creates a problem: Because they’ve never been trained on teaching people how to sell, many sales managers end up just selling. According to a study of global B2B […]
Can you think of any profession other than sales management that provides so little training to such an important role in an organization? Sandler Training President and CEO Dave Mattson told us this is one of the major issues in modern sales management: People are thrown into the job with no real training. “Think about […]
