How to Know If Your Team Is Producing The Intended Results

A sales leader must do more than just provide their team with the tools and resources they need to sell well. A sales leader must also ensure their team’s efforts are producing the intended results. Tracking a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a good way to do this but how do you know…

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Undoubtedly The Best Managers Are Good Coaches.

It’s not uncommon to hear about the importance of good managers in the workplace. Google – being the innovator it is, wanted to prove that manager quality does not impact business performance.    Enter “Project Oxygen.” Google’s People Innovation Lab analyzed how past performance appraisals, employee surveys, and interviews impacted performance.   The result? Google’s…

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How to Optimize Performance with Sales Enablement

Orchestrating Leadership

Last week, we talked about the seven elements of sales enablement and their interdependence for creating a far more effective strategy than sales training alone. This week, we will explore – how you can optimize your organization’s performance with Sales Enablement. To do so, we must establish that Sales Enablement is more than a strategy, it’s…

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How AI Can Reduce Unconscious Bias, So Organizations Can Thrive

Artificial intelligence has the power to reduce unconscious bias out of the performance management process; providing accurate insights into team members’ capabilities so that managers can customize coaching that elevates team performance. “Unconscious bias – judgments and behaviors toward others that we’re not aware of – is everywhere in our lives,” says an article in…

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When Data and Stories Collide: Leveraging Human Connectivity to Close

Data Storytelling

Sales professionals throughout history have leveraged their power to persuade as the determinant in the close of just about every deal. I mean, unless a product or service is legitimately one of a kind, the difference between one company and another who are offering some variation of, or maybe even the exact same version of…

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