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: Company Alignment | Sales Kickoff | Sales Productivity
As we start the new year, many of us are also launched into SKO season. As a revenue leader, you've invested budget, time and resources into this event - with the assumption that you will see ROI in terms of your strategic revenue goals. Your goal may be to improve upon last year's performance by training up new or underperforming members of the sales team and communicating expectations. The sales kickoff is a prime opportunity to build momentum, right the course and chart the path towards increased sales productivity and revenue. In order to achieve desired levels of growth and productivity, leaders must ensure that their presentation addresses the needs of every member of their sales team.
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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: Company Alignment | Sales Coaching Tools | Sales Productivity | Scaling Sales
The journey from start-up to maturity involves multiple rounds of iteration. Achieving product-market fit and getting your customers to pay and stay are the results of how your product and message adapted to your buyers' needs along the way. Now, reaching that next benchmark means continuing to refine and shift the way your company thinks about and talks about itself in the market. In our work with rapidly growing B2B SaaS and tech organizations, we’ve identified three common components that are crucial for satisfying the growth imperative. Here are three keys for leaders targeting the next revenue milestone:
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Categories: Company Alignment | Sales Productivity
In today's ever-changing sales landscape, stagnating is not an option. If it seems that you've reached a growth plateau, or you're struggling to increase recurring revenue to meet your goals, you may be facing an alignment challenge. Too often, companies function in silos, with sales, marketing, product and operations working separately rather than together toward common goals. As each department works to meet company goals on their own, inefficiencies become rampant, with sales performance likely becoming one of the largest frustrations. Removing those silos can create and capture customer value, as well as streamline internal processes and administrative burdens to increase overall productivity of your go-to-market teams.
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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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