Category Archives for "Sales Force Transformation"

Unleashing Growth: Overcoming 7 Common Barriers to Sales Transformation

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the role of Chief Revenue Officers (CROs) or senior-most sales leaders (by any title), has never been more critical. These architects of growth are tasked with navigating complex market dynamics, driving revenue streams, and fostering a culture of success. However, achieving the highest levels of growth remains a challenge […]

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How to Radically Improve Your B2B Sales Win Rates

How to Radically Improve Your B2B Sales Win Rates

In this post, I’m going to share some simple concepts that I’ve seen deliver radically improved results across a sales force. And by “radically,” I mean improve opportunity management effectiveness and skyrocket win rates by 25-40%. I’ve been part of delivering these results, multiple times in my career, for both employers and clients. It’s entirely […]

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There are Limits to What Sales Enablement Can Fix

There are limits to what sales enablement can fix

Senior sales leaders and C-suite execs, this one’s for you. Pay attention. This is free consulting. Background & Context Enablement is Booming In an expanding number of vertical industries (but not yet everywhere), the concept of “enabling the sales force” has exploded. According to Paul Krajewski’s blog, where he tracks the profession, there were 15,000 […]

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How to Resize and Retool Your Sales Force

How to Resize and Retool Your Sales Force the Right Way

This is a post I never wanted to write. I originally posted it as a LinkedIn Article in August of 2020 and unfortunately, find it relevant again already in mid-2022. At the time I published it initially, I had hoped the worst of the pandemic-fueled layoffs were behind us. Unfortunately, many company executives still needed […]

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The Sliding Scale of Sales Transformation

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Sales Transformation. It’s a term that means different things to different people. I’ve been involved in sales transformations that were entirely focused on getting the best-possible performance out of the sales force (ranging from a 30 to 600 percent increase in sales), independent of retooling the rest of the organization. In my experience, the potential […]

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Sales Enablers: Have you OD’d yet? You Should!

The War on… Sales Productivity?  Based on the sales research results I see (much of which is based on survey results from folks like you), I know it must seem that our efforts to increase sales productivity (which I define as “revenue per salesperson” over a given time period) or sales velocity, are as challenging […]

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