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Mentoring – The Ultimate Salesperson Accelerator

Finding great talent is only the beginning of the process when you want to improve your sales team. Have you noticed a difference between pre-hire expectations and actual sales performance? Are you sick of having to deal with high turnover rates and poorly qualified salespeople who underperform and leave you feeling overworked? Sales should be a fun and exciting career, not a constant battle. If you are ready to start making lasting changes in your sales team, mentoring is an effective way to improve your team’s performance and start in a new direction. The sales industry is changing every day.
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Sales Assessments

How To Determine Whether Your Sales Candidate Is Really a “Self-Starter”

Many of our clients have told us that they want their salespeople to be “self-starters,” operating with high levels of independence and initiative, sometimes even from a home office. Learn how self-starters are beneficial for business in a multitude of ways. Benefits of Self-Starters: Decrease the amount of time managers have to spend overseeing employee activities Improve productivity, naturally Step out of the box and fulfill needs that are not within a job description Inspire others and serve as role models within a team Can be long-term assets to a company What Makes a Self-Starter? Self-starters are defined by their
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The Sales Manager Factor | How Sales Performance Can Be Affected

While most sub-par sales performance is blamed on salespeople as a reflex, it is important for companies to closely monitor the relationships between their salespeople and sales managers.  It is not uncommon for potentially productive salespeople to be stifled by inexperienced or incompetent sales managers who are protected by their superiors at the salespeople’s expense.
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Sales Assessments

Can Sales Tests Be Faked? Learn How to Separate Actors from A-Players

One of the most common questions we receive is whether a sales assessment test can be faked. This is an important concern, since the purpose of a sales employment screening is to separate the good actors from the high potential candidates. It is prudent to take a good look into any test before relying on it to screen your candidates. Unfortunately, many tests are very easy for candidates to quickly size up and fake their way through, creating a false impression of their level of motivation or ambition. These tests can create even more wasted time and money than if
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My Favorite Candidate Did Not Score High on Drive! How is That Possible?

When recruiting “hunter” salespeople, hiring managers occasionally “fall in love” with a candidate with a great resume, who subsequently scores lower than expected on Drive.  It can be tempting to ignore the test results, and move forward anyway, trusting gut instincts over the diagnostics.  However, we ignore the warning of the test at our own risk. Here are three common reasons this situation occurs, and the key to avoiding it: The candidate has built up a great book of business over the years, but is more interested now in dialing back his/her work commitments.  The candidate may talk a good
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[Infographic] 5 Biggest Sales Hiring Mistakes That Cost Companies Millions!

Hiring high aptitude and high performance salespeople is really hard, but hiring managers don’t make it any easier on themselves by often making the following sales hiring mistakes. Let’s take a look… Text Version: Hiring high aptitude and high performance salespeople is really hard, but there are some common sales hiring mistakes that make it even harder. Avoid these mistakes and start hiring better salespeople. Lack of Testing: Managers do not use online sales assessments to vet for the core aptitude that research shows is common to almost all sales producers. No Behavioral Interview: They do not use a thorough behavioral
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