Categories: Artificial Intelligence | Sales Kickoff
Is improving AI adoption, impact and outcomes a priority for your 2027 SKO? In this article, we provide detailed breakdowns and planning guides for the following (click to jump to section): How to Use the Sales Kickoff to Improve Adoption of Existing AI Tools How to Roll Out a New AI Sales Tool at SKO How to Prepare Managers to Reinforce AI Adoption and Improve Execution How to Measure Success of AI Adoption After the SKO Keep reading for everything you need to know about planning your 2027 SKO with AI top-of-mind. For more resources on planning a SKO that improves execution and sales performance, check out our Sales Kickoff Planning Resource Guide.
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Categories: Artificial Intelligence | Buyer Alignment | Selling Technology
Enterprise buyers are exploring AI solutions, but their curiosity doesn’t always translate to confidence. Many companies are racing to meet these evolving needs, but buyers are cautious and require clear evidence of why a solution matters, how it will be governed, and what business outcomes it will deliver. Sellers are challenged with making the connection between interest and trust by aligning with the most urgent priorities of buyers.
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Categories: Adoption and Reinforcement | Artificial Intelligence | Sales Productivity
AI delivers the greatest impact when it reinforces what already drives strong execution: a clear sales motion, a common language and a repeatable approach to creating, capturing and qualifying value. Too often, companies treat AI as the strategy itself, when it’s really the accelerator. Although 85% of organizations increased AI investment in 2025, just 10% repeated significant measurable ROI. To drive measurable ROI from AI investment, leaders must first define what “great execution” looks like, align the functions responsible for delivering it and create the structure and inputs AI can reinforce at scale. Without that foundation, even the most advanced AI tools struggle to produce meaningful results. We recently explored this topic in a discussion with leaders from Accord, Greenhouse, and Samsara, where we unpacked what it takes to operationalize AI in a way that strengthens sales execution. Here are three reasons many AI investments fail to deliver the expected impact.
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Categories: Artificial Intelligence | Sales Leadership
Great sales leaders know how to make the number, but the ability to do that consistently requires more than just great sales skills. The best revenue leaders understand the critical need to equip individuals with the proper tools for revenue success and drive organizational outcomes. A great sales leader understands the importance of a structured sales discipline while reinforcing methodologies that drive measurable results. Veteran Sales Leader and Current Shopify Chief Revenue Officer Bobby Morrison recently joined the Revenue Builders podcast with John Kaplan and John McMahon to talk through his lessons learned and his blueprint for great sales leadership. Morrison knows how to grow and scale companies; from his sales leadership roles at Verizon, where his leadership helped drive $8.3B in revenue, and at Microsoft, where his segment increased revenue from $15B to $25B. Now, at Shopify, he’s led their shift upmarket to an aggressive 30% revenue growth rate in Q1 of this year.
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Categories: Artificial Intelligence | Sales Leadership
The AI revolution is coming fast – it’s reshaping industries, redefining workflows, and promising unprecedented growth to sales organizations. Yet, many leaders are hesitant to make a big bet on AI. The wrong move could cost you time, revenue, and credibility. With the right foundational strategy and the right tool, AI should be a sales force multiplier enabling your teams to sell faster and more proficiently, bringing more value to customers and more impact to revenue. Our recent webinar on AI in Leadership brought together a team of experts to discuss AI, sales productivity, and what top companies are doing right now. Joining the conversation were Eldad Postan-Koren, CEO and co-founder of Winn.AI; Rob Moyer, Director of Partnerships at Gong; and Sriharsha Guduguntla, CEO and co-founder of Hyperbound. Their discussion with Force Management’s Head of Community Joe Huber revealed the common mistakes leaders are making today with AI and how they can take proactive steps to ensure successful implementation of these new technologies.
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Categories: Artificial Intelligence | Sales Enablement Technology
As AI becomes even more prevalent in society and business, leaders are looking for ways to embed the new technology into their go-to-market motion. Gartner predicted in 2023 that 35% of CROs would establish an internal AI Operations team by 2025. These teams help to manage change, compliance and adoption to ensure new technology is used in a way that promotes the company’s goals.
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