Categories: CRO Best Practices | Sales Kickoff | Sales Leadership
The sales kickoff is often one of the biggest investments of the year. The event not only requires budget, it also takes a large share of resources in terms of time and commitment from your go-to-market and enablement teams. That also means our focus is largely on planning and executing the event - but what happens after the SKO? As your teams wrap up the event and start focusing on revenue-driving activities, do you have a plan to ensure that you can drive clear return for this investment in a way that is relevant to your company's top priorities and revenue goals for the year? Force Management has worked with hundreds of organizations to help them execute sales kickoffs that advance their strategic revenue goals. Today, we're calling on insights from three of our veteran facilitators who design, plan and lead kickoff training events that get results. Here are the leadership actions after the sales kickoff that they've seen drive positive business outcomes.
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Categories: Economic Change | Sales Kickoff | Sales Messaging
The start of the year is an opportunity to capitalize on the mindset of a fresh start. Your revenue teams are setting their goals and habits for the new year, and SKOs and strategy sessions are shifting their approach. The first month or two will be crucial in setting the foundation that will determine your organization’s success this year. Now is the time to lay out a bold strategy and empower your teams to take control of closing bigger deals, stacking pipeline, and driving toward organizational goals. Here are three strategies that leaders are using to start the year strong with a message that delivers ROI and aligns with your broader vision for growth and profitability.
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Categories: Podcasts
This month's Revenue Builders Podcast episodes shared a central theme of delivering value. In sales we often think about value as something we deliver to our customers, which is true - but value is also something delivered to teams by their leaders, to reps by their organization and to sales organizations by their customers. In the below episodes, we were joined by some highly accomplished guests who shared new ways of thinking about value and how we can become the most valuable leaders, service providers and individual contributors that we can be. Dig in. We publish two episodes per week, sharing lessons for sales leaders at all stages of their careers. Make sure to subscribe to the Revenue Builders podcast on your favorite podcast player, so you never miss an episode.
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Categories: Sales Negotiation | Sales Process
A well-defined negotiation strategy is a critical component of an organization’s success. A great negotiation strategy goes beyond individual seller skills - leaders should create a repeatable framework to ensure negotiation is being executed consistently across all deals to ensure maximum revenue. If your team repeatedly loses margin on deals, loses to competitors based on price or struggles to expand deal sizes, it may be time to assess your negotiation strategy.
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Categories: Sales Coaching Tools | Talent Management
Sales talent is a cornerstone to a best-in-class sales organization. As a sales leader you need the right people on board if you want to hit your revenue goals every quarter. Without a process to attract, hire and retain top sales talent you will waste money on mis-hires, lose talent to the competition and have no way to build a bench strength for growth.
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Categories: Podcasts | Sales Kickoff | Sales Leadership
Force Management Co-Founder John Kaplan and five-time CRO John McMahon recently had an in-depth discussion on the Revenue Builders Podcast about sales kickoffs. Combining their years of experience, they hashed out what works and what doesn't when it comes to planning and leading a kickoff event as a revenue leader. Listen to the full podcast conversation here. Today, we're sharing the top leadership tactics that Kaplan and McMahon have seen make a successful SKO that drives productivity, revenue and valuation. Keep reading for four things that all the best SKOs do.
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