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Key Takeaways Tailoring evaluations to specific sales roles ensures feedback fits the job, enhancing sales team performance where it counts. Sales performance evaluations often feel like a box-checking exercise for managers and a stress test for sales reps. What is a Sales Performance Evaluation?
Key parameters to be included in sales training programs. Sales leaders should focus not only on completing learning materials but also on assessments of whether they can perform key sales actives. Leverage peer learning Peer learning will help sales rep to harness the ‘tribal knowledge’ of veteran sales leaders.
In the face of all this, for the most part we are training our sales people in the same skills I learned many decades ago, and my predecessors learned decades before that. And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.).
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Unfortunately, as I talk to executives and sales people alike, particularly around skills and competencies critical to sales success, I get the impression we are focused on “where the puck is.” While there are great technologies that can help sales people, and things like AI offer great promise.
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The problem is, when one looks at most of these “transformations,” nothing looks that different from before, certainly the outcomes don’t look any better-much of the research data would suggest sales/marketing performance is getting worse. We don’t see changes in management behavior.
The sales person called wanting to talk about sales performance management. I’m always interested in sales performance management and learning more, after all, the majority of SalesManager Survival Guide is about sales performance management.
These are the luxuries afforded to the typical inside sales rep. But aside from the obvious environmental difference, there’s a lot more that separates inside from outside sales teams, and that’s what we’re going to explore here. What is inside sales? . Inside sales vs. outside sales .
It might be because another rep is handing off the deal, there’s been a territory change, or the deal has closed and an accountmanager is taking over. Objectionhandling. You should welcome objections: They give you a chance to address your prospect’s reservations and reasons not to buy. It’s been a while.
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