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Sales Productivity Insight

A highly productive sales force is the lifeblood of a healthy, thriving business. We help you select and manage sales professionals who will succeed in your unique culture.

How can you help your sales force succeed?

  • Understand their ability to handle sales opportunities
  • Understand their core behaviors that are common to top performers
  • Provide insight into strengths and weaknesses
  • Help sales managers motivate and coach their direct reports

The 80/20 Rule Holds True

In sales there is something called the “80/20 rule?” This means 20 percent of your sales team makes about 80% of your annual sales volume.

Why is it so difficult to find sales people who year after year bust difficult sales quotas and consistently make their new business development goals?.out -perform the rest of your sales force.

TalentValue It sell consistently? TalentValue offers the answer and solutions to overcome the “80/20 rule.”

Recruit Sales People Who Consistently Achieve Sales Goals

Research shows there are specific skills and personality traits to that are common to consistent producers. Our experience is that about 25% to 35% of sales people will not be consistent successful sales representatives because their skills will not be properly developed, or they are selling the wrong product or service.

Further, hiring people who do not fit your culture, have poor selling skills and do not have the core cognitive abilities, personality and behavioral traits will cause you to miss your sales goals and adversely affect your sales person turnover.

Several ways we help source, select, develop, and retain great sales producers.

  1. Automate recruiting marketing strategies to find passive job seekers.  TalentValue can help you promote your company by developing a strategy to reach passive and active candidates who frequent niche job boards like Linked-in, Glass Door, Indeed, and specific association niche job boards.
  2. Identify candidates that have the potential to be a consistent producer.  When hiring, the objective is to hire candidates with characteristics of consistent top sales performers. We recommend using our TalentValue Custom Sales Assessment to accurately assess critical characteristics essential to a consistently great salesperson.
  3. Evaluate your current sales-force bench strength.
    TalentValue recommends to contact us to conduct a Job Match Study to evaluate the specific traits of each individual on you sales team and to identify the common cognitive and personality traits and  training needs to boost the productivity your current salespeople.
  4. Develop a more efficient sales person on-boarding process.
    The key to a salespersons success is to get them ramped up quickly, by understanding what motivates them by understanding their key strengths, weaknesses, and coaching them to effectively convey your value proposition to prospects.  To accomplish this, first and foremost, sales managers need to understand what makes the new hire tick and to coach them in areas that may be a challenge based on your Job Match Bench-marking process.

Contact us to learn more about how TalentValue can help you evaluate your current sales team and consistently hire consistent sales performers.

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