LSA Global

JULY 15, 2023

3 New Sales Manager Tips for Success for Your First 90-Days We know from our sales management training that being a high performing solution seller often leads to a promotion to sales management. Twice as likely to plan for having a long-term future with their company. Organizationally, there’s good reason.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2017

But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics. Consider the results of a survey of key performance indicators (KPIs) being used by more than 800 sales teams across industries.

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Jerry Fletcher

MAY 8, 2021

Meeting name. Don’t call it a Discovery meeting or chat or whatever. In most cases the answer will be that some metric in the sales equation is off. You need an answer in terms of: Savings Increased Revenues or income Outcome for individual or department or company How it would present to those involved.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 20, 2024

For skin care companies aiming to establish a successful brand, launch innovative product lines, and navigate the competitive beauty industry, partnering with business experts can be a strategic advantage. Skin care brands benefit from experts through consulting services.

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2024

While most companies believe in the need to upskill their employees to execute their strategies and retain top talent, leaders are frustrated with the return on their training investments. Only 3% of respondents to a recent McKinsey survey said their companies’ skill-building programs are “always effective” at achieving desired objectives.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

To motivate, manage, and reward B2B salespeople, many companies use sales incentive plans that link large commissions or bonuses to individual results metrics, such as territory quota achievement. The right sales incentive plan creates a double win. The right sales incentive plan creates a double win.

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LSA Global

MARCH 10, 2019

Are corporate training metrics simply an exercise in futility that pleases training experts and HR but otherwise has no meaningful value to the business? Successful companies have learned that corporate training metrics have tremendous value in three areas: Helping to evaluate what matters (where to focus your efforts).

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

You have to meet them at their point of departure and use your power skills that I'll be sharing in this episode to influence them in a better way. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

The goal trap for small businesses Small businesses realize as they grow that they need goals and goal setting to manage their company but often fail to adopt them. Here we show what are the most common mistakes and the best practices setting the right goals and align your company behind them. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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LSA Global

APRIL 10, 2020

High performing B2B social sellers build relationships on digital platforms and turn online connections into offline sales conversations and long-term customer relationships. LinkedIn’s recent State of Sales report found that 62% of B2B decision makers look for an informative LinkedIn profile when considering talking with a sales rep.

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LSA Global

MARCH 15, 2020

Every Sales Team Would Like to Convert Sales Leads Faster. Your sales conversion rate measures the effectiveness of your sales team at turning sales leads into new customers. It measures how often your sales reps are turning prospects into real business. New sales leads grow cold surprisingly fast.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Why a Winning Sales Strategy Matters|. Strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. When it comes to a winning sales strategy, our clients work most effectively when they begin by answering six very basic sales strategy questions. Where Do You Begin?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. companies spend more than $37 billion dollars a year on them. Employees in American companies spend more than one-third of their time in them. They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Session 2: Metrics vs Strategy. Input metrics are essential as these metrics are leading indicators of your eventual output metrics and results achievement. They have a significant tendency to focus on outcome metrics instead of their company strategy. Learn more about Session 1 and register here: [link].

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LSA Global

AUGUST 14, 2018

High Performance Sales Needs High Performance Sales Planning. If you want better sales performance, you need better sales planning. The goal for most sales teams is pretty straightforward – grow profitable sales. It takes a clear go to market sales strategy combined with a sales plan to make it happen.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Your company may discover that it needs a strategic do-over. Instagram has played an integral role in helping to lift sales for brands including Gatorade. So how do you ensure that your social media efforts are aligned with what matters to your company — and that you are positively contributing to the bottom line?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. In fact, a recent survey found that connecting with a prospect now takes 18 or more phone calls, callback rates are below 1%, and only 24% of outbound sales emails are ever opened. Why are more and more buyers avoiding salespeople during the buying process?

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. Are you having a strategy meeting soon? Get our free 2-Day strategic planning agenda.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles. At the highest level, Workplace Analytics can provide a factual foundation for decisions on sales structure and roles.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

They know that when you do this employees excel at work, and as a result the company excels. 5 Companies that Lead by Example through Servant Leadership Check out these examples of companies that have applied servant leadership principles. Starbucks: Starbucks is a company identified for its commitment to servant leadership.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

62% increase in strategic clarity 75% increase in strategic alignment and commitment 29% increase in executive team norms and role acceptance This global and growing Digital Marketing Firm wanted to create senior team alignment to meet aggressive growth, EBIT, and hiring targets. Learn more about getting aligned.

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Next, I want to shorten the sales cycle. People die, someone gets promoted, companies get put into play… we have a pandemic… A million things can happen that can cause the deal to die. My clients are frustrated that there’s not a common agreement in the company as to the future strategy of the business. Cheers, Robert.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

What constitutes project accounting in a company is based on several factors including company type, the number of projects and company size. Companies which are not externally project driven may use project accounting to track internal projects such as a marketing campaign, or some type of capital improvement.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

This change will result in a short-term financial loss for the company and will affect how they do business with their customers. The roles and responsibilities within the company will shift for many employees. You want everyone on board when it comes to a major change in your company.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

This change will result in a short-term financial loss for the company and will affect how they do business with their customers. The roles and responsibilities within the company will shift for many employees. You want everyone on board when it comes to a major change in your company. Share Results with Your Team.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

For some networking meetings, the agenda is obvious: Your companies are considering doing business together, or you’re looking for a job and this person might help you get one. But many professionals find themselves in networking meetings where the goals are murkier. What projects are you most excited about and why?

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LSA Global

JUNE 18, 2020

Does Selling as a Competitive Advantage Make Sense for Your Company? Perhaps the most powerful attribute of a good strategic plan is how the company plans to distinguish itself from the competition in a way that is not easily replaced or replicated. The Sales Challenge. Let’s start with the current state of sales.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2023

But our organizational alignment research found that the majority of companies do not demonstrate enough strategic speed to meet their own growth goals. We were also not surprised to find that most companies are pretty good at seeing opportunities and deciding to try to take advantage of them.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

Companies less frequently offer formal training – a trend that has been on the decline for years. During my 11 years at PepsiCo, mostly during the 1990s, “personal development” was treated as a major company initiative. What are job goals and key success metrics? Drawn Ideas/Getty Images.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 21, 2023

For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. Through planning meetings, training, and coaching we ramped up the initiative. As a result, the company achieved a 75% gain! Through feedback, the company’s branches listed recognition and coaching as the top initiatives that helped.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. What caused this slump?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. But it’s also the responsibility of the company to cultivate a culture that shuns corner-cutting and prevents it from accumulating into major scandals, ones that damage the credibility of the business, endanger jobs, and threaten the entire enterprise.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2019

The asset management industry is a steward of money provided by individuals and institutions, and manages this money in order to meet the unique return objectives of each client. If the PM is seen as a driver of AUM, whether through sales or performance, he can command a much higher share of the proceeds than a PM who is not.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 16, 2018

The opportunity to bounce around to different companies and add more value. Set definite goals for your business with dates and metrics. What company size is most relevant to your expertise? Your goal in your sales process is to be concerned about issues far greater than simply getting a signature on the dotted line.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity. This is giving us the opportunity to experiment with different change strategies within chosen populations in the company.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For reference, my first three questions to owners are: Have you worked with a financial advisor to see how much money you need from the sale to support your next great adventure in life (and do you know what your business is worth – not just what you want for it)? What will you be doing after the sale? Pretty straightforward, right?

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. A number of the high-profile attacks on large companies — including Equifax , Netflix , Best Buy , and Target — occurred this way. The supplier was a small, privately held HVAC company called Fazio.

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