sales competencies
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Are (Lack of) Results Due to the Salesperson or the Company?
- July 9, 2012
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Whether your salespeople are underperforming or doing well, are they responsible or is it your company, culture, advertising or offerings that’s responsible?
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Must Read – Accenture / CSO Insights Sales Optimization Study
- December 2, 2011
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
In their latest study (thanks to Charlie for sending it to me) – Accenture reported on the 2000 companies worldwide that CSO Insights surveyed. I identified some very interesting findings and if there was a big surprise it was that nothing surprised me! In fact, it supports everything I’ve written about here for the past 5 years. Consider the following:
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The Myth of Sales Habits and Competencies
- February 23, 2011
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If they realized that they had gotten out of the habit of doing anything, then did they really ever have a habit? When something is a habit, one always does it and nothing would prevent it from getting done. So it is far more likely that there was never, ever anything even close to resembling a habit.
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Tom Peters Top 9 Items for the Sales Force
- May 11, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Tom had dozens of items on the list and an argument can be made to include more of them as staples of the sales force but these are a really good start. If you were to pick just one to work on first, which one would you choose?
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Great Sales Opportunities That Don’t Close
- March 2, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If getting opportunities into the pipeline is the most universal sales challenge, then getting opportunities closed comes in a close second. I’m talking about prospects who aren’t ready to say, “yes” but are still “very interested”. These calls pose problems for salespeople for several reasons:
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Your Sales and Sales Management Questions Answered Part I
- December 15, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
In an article last week, I provided the post to a sales competency contest. The final question in that survey asked the participants for any sales issues they needed help with. Today I’ll answer the first four of those questions below:
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Sales Competencies Contest – Win Prizes
- December 10, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Speaking of Sales Competencies, Rocky LaGrone was back on Meet the Sales Experts yesterday and what a great show. In addition to sales competencies we also discussed training and coaching competencies. I think this episode was one of the fastest moving shows we’ve produced to date.
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Practice – 9th of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies That are Key to Building a Sales Culture
- October 26, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
This is the 9th in the series of articles on the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies That are Key to Building a Sales Culture.
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Options – 7th of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture
- October 22, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
This the 7th in my series on the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture.
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Talking – 4th of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies That are Key to Building a Sales Culture
- October 14, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Today, as part of my continuing series on the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies That are Key to Building a Sales Culture, I present:
#4 – You Can Talk – It’s Your Mind that Has to Shut Up