Although sales coaching’s importance and impact is widely acknowledged, coaching initiatives remain poorly supported in most sales organizations. Time and resource intensive, management’s coaching focus is too easily diminished by competing priorities, inconsistent practice, and ineffective delivery. Organizations’ efforts to support coaching are therefore essential to maintaining managers’ coaching focus,...Read more

How Concur Created a Data-Driven Sales Culture 
12 November 2015
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How do you satisfy a data-hungry fast-paced sales force, while maintaining accuracy and confidence? How do you efficiently provide sales leadership with high-level insights while also accommodating requests for customized inquiries, and quick drill-down capabilities? How can you best utilize the power of self-service reporting to provide actionable and accurate...Read more

Content Automation Trends: Is Your Sales Content Keeping Pace? 
9 November 2015
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As buyers demand more and better insights from supplier partners, the importance of content-based sales and marketing approaches has intensified. This webcast reveals emerging practices in sales organizations' use of content, and trends defining how effective organizations realize return on content investments. Based on Qvidian's first edition of the Content...Read more
Sales teams are learning to shape the sales process to follow the buyers journey. Along the way, many organizations realize their sales and marketing efforts are poorly aligned not only to buyers' expectations, but poorly aligned with one another. Exposing these gaps is the first step toward closing them. This...Read more

Making More Than the Number: a Navigational Approach to Sales Forecasting 
29 October 2015
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Sales forecasting should establish more than the number that represents the sales force's commitment. It should also deliver an inventory of known risks, contingent plans for course correction, a prioritized set of tactical objectives, and a road map of potential management coaching opportunities. Most firms realize few of these additional...Read more
Coaching is time and resource intensive. Done right it can create a big impact. However, without the right organizational support,coaching’s impact can be easily undermined by competing priorities,inconsistent practice, and ineffective delivery. This webinar takes a first look at insights on how business-to-business sales organizations support coaching initiatives. This includes...Read more

Learn-ablement, a New Approach to Sales Training 
22 October 2015
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In this webcast, SPI's Directors of Learning and Enablement will present a new approach for effective sales training that merges these previously disparate management practices into one unified -- and more effective -- way to train and enable sales professionals. Along with improved retention, sales leaders are now more effectively...Read more