Account management High impact Pipeline 
Partners in Excellence
JANUARY 24, 2025
For example, the manager for one of the highest performing sales teams I know only tracks about 5 metrics, YTD performance against plan. Forecast performance against plan (his team has 92% forecast accuracy), Pipeline health, Completed committed tasks (as a %), New committed tasks to be completed.
Partners in Excellence
MAY 3, 2022
When I meet with managers, I ask them, “What data do you use to monitor performance?” ” They say the obligatory answers, “We look at forecast data, pipeline data, YTD quota performance, and so forth. You don’t have enough in your pipeline. You aren’t going to make your forecast.
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Highspot
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Trying to build a high-impact sales team? Heads up: Your team will only ever be as good as its manager. In fact, a reported 69% of sellers who exceed annual quota consider their sales managers as being “above average” at their jobs. But here’s the problem: A good candidate for sales management is hard to find.
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 1, 2021
How could they possibly have a high impact conversation with senior people? It’s not the role, I think the role can be very impactful. Why wouldn’t we align the resources that have the ability to have high impact conversations with the people we are targeting? The SDR/BDR role can be very impactful.
Sales Gravy
OCTOBER 23, 2022
Sellers were getting more done, in less time, with better outcomes because all of the distractions that typically took them away from high impact sales activities were gone. Impactful things that generate revenue growth. If you're an account manager, you make an impact by expanding and retaining your accounts.
Partners in Excellence
DECEMBER 9, 2018
If may be prospecting avoidance for any number of reasons–“That’s the SDRs job, I can’t get them to respond, I’ll focus on the people I’ve worked with before… ” At the same time, their pipeline’s are empty. Pipelines help us understand whether we are doing enough to achieve our goals.
Partners in Excellence
AUGUST 26, 2020
We are inundated with training, content, articles, books on “You have to prospect, You have to build your pipeline, You have to follow the process, …… ” These focus on what sales people have to do, they are generally closely followed by techniques and tools focusing on how we do those things.
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