Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Indeed, I’m not sure I’ve met a CEO who has made learning more central to the corporate culture than Ridge has, or has found more ways to develop a thirst for learning among his colleagues. WD-40 is an unlikely setting for such a learning-obsessed culture. It is hardly a glamorous brand, but it is iconic in its own way.

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LSA Global

MARCH 9, 2018

Wouldn’t it be nice to know the traits of successful sales managers? Sales managers have an awesome responsibility. They must motivate their team to achieve very concrete sales targets and do so under the constant pressure of executives who are impatient with excuses and for whom failure is no option. The Job of a Sales Manager.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

All three create the culture and work environment. It shows them where their disconnects are and the implications, for example, if they decided to change their organizational strategy by reducing their headcount to both their people strategies and the achievement of their business strategy and culture.

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Asamby Consulting

JUNE 2, 2022

Welcoming the decade of Organizational Culture. This article will explore the rise of organizational culture as a key element for healthy organizations, and how it can become a competitive advantage for SMEs. One culture is always present. Which work culture was created by the goal-setting and was it a desirable one?

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LSA Global

APRIL 28, 2021

Sales Alignment Keynote Address. The Sales Enablement Soirée is the largest virtual event exclusively for sales enablement professionals to connect live and collaborate in real-time with peers and industry luminaries. Only then can you enable the sales team to perform at its peak. To watch the video, go to: [link].

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The B2B Sales Hunters vs Farmers Sales Model The role of B2B sales hunter vs sales farmer has been discussed in business sales training workshops for decades. In general, the roles represent two different, and often related, approaches to selling with each having an important part to play in sales growth.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Does Your Team Learn from Sales Wins? Many high performing sales teams learn from sales losses and projects that go awry. Most experienced sales leaders and coaches are adept at post-loss reviews and uncovering what went wrong to improve future close rates. Why Sales Teams Do Not Debrief Sales Wins.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Best of Sales Conference Keynote Speakers: Sales 3.0 Las Vegas Nevada Last month, insights from Best of Sales Conference Keynote Speakers representing various industry groups, including CEOs, CROs, business analysts, best-selling authors, and experts in sales technology were shared at the Green Valley Ranch Resort Spa.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 10, 2024

What Is Tolerated Is Your Workplace Culture: Understanding the Subtle Forces Shaping Organizational Identity We know from Action Learning Leadership Development participants that workplace culture is more than what leaders say and celebrate. Workplace culture is also defined by what is implicitly tolerated.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Pressures Faced by Sales Managers Are Unique to Their Role A sales leader’s average tenure is less than two years, which is far shorter than the tenure of most other managers. In fact, a recent survey by PayScale uncovered that 73% rated the role of sales account manager as “highly stressful.”Unlike Why is this?

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2023

The Top Sales Leader Effect ? What Top Sales Leaders Do Better than their Peers Getting the right person to lead Sales matters. The impact of top sales leaders is enormous. So, what is it that top sales leaders do better? Sales leadership is about effectively leading, managing, and coaching, not doing more selling.

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LSA Global

MAY 5, 2020

Every High Performing Sales Leader. Being a high performing sales leader is not easy. Sales leaders are responsible for building and scaling the sales team, designing meaningful compensation plans, training and onboarding new hires, and simultaneously meeting quarterly revenue and margin targets.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Impact of Great Sales Managers Companies that focus simply on the skills of their sales reps and neglect to provide targeted sales management training for sales leaders overlook a critical leverage point to increase sales performance. regardless of the business sales skills of their salespeople.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

Businesses need agility throughout the organization, and a truly agile business needs every department—from research and development to sales and marketing, product and operations, and even HR and finance—to adopt an agile mindset. Sales (78 percent). times more likely to have a culture to support risk-taking.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Challenge of Culture Change Organizational change is always challenging, but culture change is especially difficult because it requires changing employee mindsets and behaviors as to how work gets done. It requires changing business practices to change culture. Organizational culture matters.

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LSA Global

JULY 16, 2021

Do the Math Trying to define high performing sales territories that are balanced, and consistently high producing is the source of many a sales manager’s headaches. There are so many ways to slice and dice sales territories but, however you do it, there is one constant – it should reflect real data.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Top Sales Leaders Drive Growth If you find a sales leader who Is not up to the challenge of accelerating revenue growth, you have not found a high performing sales leader. But you need more from a sales leader than simply a desire to grow the top line. They demonstrate how sales leaders drive growth.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Competitive or Collaborative Culture in the Workplace. When designing the ideal organizational culture to best execute your business and people strategies, what is the best balance between healthy competition to motivate performance and smart collaboration to ensure that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 12, 2017

High Sales Attrition Can Be a Major Problem. Most studies peg average sales attrition between twenty-five and thirty percent split fairly evenly between voluntary and involuntary attrition. Most studies peg average sales attrition between twenty-five and thirty percent split fairly evenly between voluntary and involuntary attrition.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sales Leadership Techniques To Tell if You Have Realistic Sales Targets. Sales strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Setting realistic sales targets that drive higher performance is no easy task. Why Do Sales Leaders Struggle with Setting Sales Targets?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Do you know how to design an effective sales kickoff? What would make your sales kickoff high performing? Unfortunately, not enough people know how to design an effective sales kickoff – one that you and your sales team find valuable and worth their time. Six Tips on How to Design an Effective Sales Kickoff.

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LSA Global

JUNE 10, 2018

Corporate Culture Affects Revenue Growth. If you want to create year over year revenue growth , be sure you understand the relationship between corporate culture and growth. Smart leaders know growth strategies must go through culture to produce results. What Corporate Culture Is. What the Corporate Culture Research Says.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? Are you and your sales team agile enough? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. Do you need to pivot your sales strategy or sales approach? 3 Steps to Pivot Your Sales Strategy During a Crisis.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Unfortunately when they do focus on growth strategies even the best solution sellers and sales leaders can fall prey to the pervasive sales growth myths. Three Sales Growth Myths to Overcome. Three Sales Growth Myths to Overcome. Sales Myth #1 – Creating New Customers, Products, and Services Is Always Best.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 10, 2018

Do You Know What Stops Sales Managers from Coaching? If you are responsible for the performance of your sales team, you must first identify what stops sales managers from coaching so you can systematically remove the big obstacles to their acting as effective coaches. Why Sales Coaching Matters. Too Complicated.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 8, 2020

High Performers Excel at Difficult Sales Scenarios. As carefully as you plan your sales calls , realize that some will inevitably go awry. Handling specific sales situations well becomes a test of sales experience, resilience, and creativity. High Performing Salespeople Prepare to Handle Five Difficult Sales Scenarios.

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LSA Global

JULY 5, 2021

A True Customer Focused Culture There’s a lot of talk lately about focusing on the customer. And it is easy to see how a customer focused culture could benefit an organization compared to organizations who don’t pay as much attention to what matters most to their customers. The post What Is a Customer Focused Culture?

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. 5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. 5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Sales Training Design Best Practices Matter. Sales training design best practices matter a great deal. Why go through the expense, effort, and time to provide business sales training for your sales force if it is does not improve sales performance? 12 Sales Training Design Best Practices.

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LSA Global

JULY 17, 2020

Meaningful Sales Training Outcomes Require Meaningful Steps. To execute their growth strategies , CEOs and sales leaders often need their sales teams to behave differently by selling differently to different buyers. A Special Note about How B2B Sales Have Changed during COVID-19.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 16, 2023

What We Know Works – High Performing Sales Managers Ask any savvy sales executive what drives high revenue growth other than having “the next iPhone,” and they will most likely tell you some version of skilled sales managers who know how to lead, manage, and coach their sales teams to higher performance.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

As the organization moved forward with acquisitions as outlined in the strategy, Brimstone worked with the organization on integration, building one culture, and identifying operation synergies and efficiencies. Download Case Study. Additionally, Brimstone partnered with the CEO to hold an annual leadership summit.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience. By contrast, Tesla’s technology mindset has it thinking in terms of software releases and downloads rather than model years and shipments. Musk has said, “Most cars don’t improve over time.

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LSA Global

JULY 20, 2017

Some leaders think they must set goals for a high performance culture that are impossible (or almost impossible) to reach in order to motivate their teams to provide maximum effort and peak performance. To set goals for a high performance culture, they must be “just right.” We believe that both sets of leaders are wrong.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2021

Does Your Sales Team Know How to Avoid Bad Sales Hires? A good sales hire can successfully do their job. The problem with hiring salespeople is the very fact that they’re salespeople – they are good at persuading sales managers in job interviews that they can do things they can’t. That’s a recipe for bad sales hires.

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LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2024

Designed poorly, strategy success metrics can lead to unwanted behaviors, misaligned actions, and unhealthy cultures. Wells Fargo: Strategy Success Metrics Gone Bad To best implement their customer growth strategy, executives identified strategy success metrics linked to cross-sales to customers to measure performance.

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