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Advice for Sales Managers
Last week, I wrote “What Is a Sales KPI? (You May Have It Wrong),” which explored the purpose of a Key Performance Indicator in a sales organization and how you may have been approaching it all wrong. Sound familiar? Sales leaders are often faced with a predicament: “Which KPIs do I want my team focused on that...
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In our last post, we talked about the importance of discussing sales KPIs with your team. Today we’ll share tips for acting on that advice. These tips serve as especially useful just before you finalize any new set of sales KPIs, such as you would at the beginning of a new quarter or year. If you won’t...
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When it comes to defining sales KPIs, you have a few options: You can sit in your office, choose your main KPIs and announce those metrics to the team, or you can get your salespeople involved in KPI decisions. Go with #2. Yes, it takes extra time, which is why many sales leaders find easy validation...
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Sales development teams have become a crucial transition point in the sales process. Acting as the gatekeepers between marketing leads and sales opportunities, your sales development reps (SDRs) influence much of what happens at the top of your funnel. But for such an important role, how do you know if your SDRs are performing successfully? Managers often...
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This is part 3 in the “Skill vs. Will Sales Coaching Series.” Read part 1 here and 2 here.  In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we’ve looked at using skill vs. will to analyze your team and introduced some of the personality traits you might come across. Now, in part III, we get to...
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When you think KPIs for your sales team, do you think sales quotas, average deal size or revenue per sales rep? Well, think again. Defining a KPI within a sales organization is often misunderstood and therefore, misused. To better understand how to get this right and build your own KPI-driven sales machine, this post will unravel...
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