Dave and Mike discuss the common sales leadership sins that destroy sales performance, damage the sales culture, and drive away top-producers. They also offer the recipe for creating and sustaining a healthy, high-performance sales culture that every organization craves.

A recent study asked sales leaders to name the top challenges holding their organizations back. The number one answer?  An inability to cut the time it takes new salespeople to close their first deals.

Every leader needs a framework to become and remain successful. When all is said and done, there are five critical business levers that, when used properly, turn good leaders into great ones.

Everyone knows that gaining access to executives is often critical to success in B2B sales. On one hand, technology like Caller ID, Voicemail, and Email Filters have made it harder than ever to reach C-Level executives.

Just as B2B sales strategies must adapt to increasingly savvy buyers, sales training must change too. This brief discusses how newer training content and methods can result in a better, smarter sales force.

Managers and leaders find themselves stuck in three vicious circles. They’re frustrated by teams who have become overdependent on them. They’re overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to do. And they’re disconnected from their own Great Work - the work that has impact, the work that has meaning. Sound familiar?

Belief drives behavior! Success in sales doesn’t just happen because someone follows a mechanical set of process-driven rules. It begins within the head and heart of the salesperson. The challenge today is that most sales managers aren’t equipped to understand or address these internal drivers/barriers, much less engage in a meaningful conversation about them with their reps. Unfortunately, that can lead to sales leaders to ignore the emotional side of selling and end up with an anemic sales team or a revolving door of talent. 

Ask a CEO to name his or her organization's most important asset and you're sure to hear "our people," followed closely by "our customers." Everything  else  takes  a  backseat, and  yet few books are written about how these two most  valuable assets interact, engage, align, collaborate, innovate, and create value together. Beyond the Sales Process focuses on the frontline of engagement with customers. It is specifically intended for salespeople, account managers, their managers, and sales leaders, as well as others who have responsibilities and pressures associated with developing and winning business, and those  who  are  tasked  with  extending  and expanding their relationships with customers. In the case studies that follow each section, you'll learn how top companies engage differently and grow successful customer relationships based on collaboration, innovation, and mutual value creation and co-creation. These case studies provide an in-depth perspective on how industry leaders across the globe engage, win, and grow with their customers. Adecco Staffing U.S., BNY Mellon, Hilton Worldwide, Honeywell Building Solutions, Merck/MSD, Panasonic Corporation, Securian Financial Group-Group Insurance, Siemens AG, and Zurich Insurance Group have generously provided us with their stories. While this book is largely intended for those who want to consistently be at the top of their professional peer groups and are willing to consider new ideas to help them succeed, it will also be of value to the managers and leaders who motivate, coach, and support the efforts of their teams. Thus, this  book  is  for  those  customer-facing  professionals  who need to drive their performance to the next level of effectiveness. Click VIEW below to download these valuable strategies.

Join Chris Cowan, VP of Sales at AchieveGlobal and Stephen Berry, head of corporate sales training at Waste Connections in an online discussion and Q&A session to reveal the success story about how Waste Connections, a leading solid-waste handling services provider, built a unified, skilled, and productive field sales organization through the use of skills training.

There is little question that many sales hiring authorities are taking a new look at this misunderstood, but critical function. They have learned, all too painfully, that their hiring methods of the past don't apply any longer.

Hired and fired! It’s the revolving door of hiring salespeople and firing them 90 days later for poor performance. It’s as if there is an affliction turning rock star sellers into bumbling fools during their first three months with companies.

How do you maximize performance in your sales process?  How do you identify and share best practices strategies and tactics among your sales people?  How does your organization support their performance beyond training?  How do your sales managers coach?

Sales Effectiveness Leader Jeff Weiss will share insights learned and strategies developed from over 25 years of assisting F500/G1000 sales organizations in dramatically improving negotiated results and profit margins.

How does an organization unify a geographically and culturally diverse sales organization around common sales skills, behaviors, and languages? In this webinar, discover how Waste Connections, a leading 29-state solid-waste handling services provider on a quest to gain market share, recently built a more cohesive, skilled, and productive field sales organization.

So you’ve run some lead generation campaigns but haven’t gotten the results you expected. Now you want to know what went wrong and what to change to fill your pipeline.

Learn about some of the hidden, but very common issues preventing salespeople from performing more consistently and effectively by developing a better understanding of what’s under the hood of your sales force.

Sales professionals are known for their ability to be persuasive; so how do you determine which ones are the most successful?  During an interview, a charismatic sales professional can convince you that they are the best person for the job, when in reality they may not be.  By discovering what a candidate’s previous managers and colleagues candidly say about their work style, skills and behaviors, you can objectively assess the candidate’s ability to be a top performer.

Today’s global and multicultural economy offers unprecedented opportunities to expand your business and increase sales revenues in rapidly growing markets at home and abroad—if your company’s executives, leaders, and managers understand how to operate effectively in this complex business environment.

Watch sales people react to any marketing presentation, and the disconnect between the teams is palpable.  When the reps’ most mundane smartphone updates are more compelling than the marketer’s plans to facilitate their success, it’s clear that marketing and sales are operating from different playbooks.

Selling in today’s hyper-competitive business environment forces sales teams to gain and maintain new capabilities. Sure, basic Sales 101 is required.  If a sales person doesn’t possess those basic skills they are not going to perform to expectations.  But the problem doesn’t stop there.  A sales person with excellent basic skills pursuing business against another sales person with the same basic skills will not have any competitive advantage.

This 7 day program is comprised of a live webinar and 7 day follow up course designed to help you sell value and avoid price objections.

Your business has great potential - if only you could hire the right sales people. But whenever you invest, the sales reps aren’t what you expected. Some are still not producing six months into the job. Others don’t quite understand your solutions. They aren’t prospecting or closing.

How are today’s leading companies becoming more strategic to their most important Customers and what types of strategic account management (SAM) solutions are they deploying to expand key customer relationships? How are they gaining competitive advantage through the implementation of SAM best practices and accelerating growth of their most significant accounts?

There is tremendous misinformation as to what sales managers should be spending their time doing.  This fast-paced session will highlight the 5 competencies on which sales managers should be spending 80% of their time, explain what is involved to master those competencies, and how much time should be spent on each.  Here are some favorites that are not on the list: