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How to Conduct Sales Performance Evaluations

Highspot

Thats the difference between a sales team just getting by and one crushing quotas. Raise the performance bar: Actionable feedback helps reps refine their sales techniques, objection handling , sales presentation skills, and pipeline management. They feel unsupported, undervalued, or constantly chase impossible targets.

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AI Sales Coaching: Your Always-on Coaching Assistant

Highspot

In fact, 65% of high-impact sales organizations (75% or more of reps achieving quota) report that sales managers spend 20% or more time coaching. This tool acts as a virtual assistant that provides real-time guidance during sales calls, offering suggestions for objection handling, tailoring pitches, and delivering compelling messages.

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Why Are You Still Using Your Old Playbooks?

Partners in Excellence

We still train our people the way we always have, providing them endless product training and sales skills training (prospecting, qualifying, need identification, proposing, objection handling, closing). Yet year after year quota attainment plummets, our activities present fewer results, win rates plummet.

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Win Rate Hacks

Partners in Excellence

We can spend a lot of time focusing on specific selling skills, for example questioning, probing, objection handling, presenting skills, closing skills. When we look at pipelines, there are a few key factors in our pipelines: Quality/integrity, volume, velocity. Do the math on what that means for pipeline coverage.

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“A La Carte” Comp Plans

Partners in Excellence

I’ve seen numerous discussions around, “our people aren’t doing the prospecting needed to fill their pipelines, but if we compensate them on their prospecting efforts, we can incent them to do the work… ” Huughh???? How do they achieve their quotas, max out their comp plan, if they don’t do the whole job?

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Why 3x Pipeline Coverage Is a Terrible Strategy

Salesforce

The sales pipeline should be three times the annual quota.” You might know this as the “3x Pipeline Coverage” rule. ” Then I became a chief revenue officer, and the pipeline suddenly became real. Filling the pipeline with 3x quota wasn’t working, and we didn’t know how else to figure out coverage.

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How “Sales-speak” Limits Us

Partners in Excellence

Sales is no different, we have our own vocabulary, terms like prospecting, qualifying, objection handling, pipeline, funnel, discovery, closing, quota. Along with those, we develop tools that help us with those things, for example, objection handling techniques, closing techniques, qualifying techniques, and so forth.