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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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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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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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What’s Your Strategy for Sales Talent Development? Part 2

Whats Your Strategy for Sales Talent Development Part 2

In the first post in this series, I defined Learning, Training, Development, and Education. Learning: Learning is the act of acquiring new knowledge and skills. Training: Training is job-related learning about what, why, and how (and maybe when and where) to do something (or multiple things), to be successful in a specific role. Development: Development […]

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Sales Enablers: For Best Results, Focus on Sales Force Performance (not Sales Reps)

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  Have you reviewed sales enablement job descriptions lately? As members of the burgeoning Sales Enablement Society or the Sales Enablement Community of ATD (and almost anyone close to the Sales Enablement market) will tell you, “sales enablement” means different things to different people, and is being executed differently in different organizations. This certainly is apparent in […]

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How to Align the Sales Performance Ecosystem to your Customer Lifecycle

I enjoy writing about what I call the Sales Performance Ecosystem.  I’ve written about it multiple times and have approached it from multiple angles. Aligning (the right) elements (at the right time) across the ecosystem is one of the quickest ways to radically improve your organization’s sales performance.  Since many of the elements intertwine and should […]

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Stop Wasting Money on Sales Training

Stop Wasting Money on Sales Training

If I hear, “Sales training doesn’t work” one more time, I think I’ll scream. If done well, sales training works fine, for what it’s designed to do. This may spark a semantics debate, especially with my friends in the sales consulting space and others with a performance-orientation, but to me, training – in and of itself […]

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