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New Sales Manager Tips for Success

LSA Global

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. Unfortunately, experience as a high performing solution seller does not fully prepare sales reps to lead others.

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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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It’s 10 AM. Do You Know What Your Sales Reps Are Doing?

Harvard Business

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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Salespeople Need a Strategy for Selling to CEOs

Harvard Business

As Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com has noted , “When I look at [our] largest transactions…every transaction was done with the CEO [and] that’s why we’re selling more enterprise software than Oracle or SAP.” What happens after a C-level meeting is at least as important as what happens during the meeting.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

To successfully transform to a more agile enterprise, companies must make conscious choices about where and how to become agile. Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog. Systematic Inc.,

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Integrate Analytics Across Your Entire Business

Harvard Business

One of the reasons analytics is working for the companies in this select group is because they tend to deploy analytics technologies and expertise across the breadth of the enterprise. and Western Europe are aggressively adopting analytics across the entire enterprise. Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.”

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6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It

Harvard Business

What are job goals and key success metrics? After a presentation or big meeting, state one thing you think went well and then ask for advice on one thing you could improve. Try to meet in an informal way: in the coffee shop in your company’s lobby, at the company picnic or golf outing, etc. Seek good counsel and mentoring.