Thursday, May 17th, 2018

Insight into sales talent: the power of big data

Sales talent analytics can drive competitive advantage and unlock new sources of corporate wealth. Pretty much everyone these days has heard of “big data”, but how many firms are actually using it to unlock new sources of corporate wealth in connection with their talent? Let’s start at the beginning: what is big data? Google defines it as: “Extremely large data… 

Sunday, January 29th, 2017

Analysis of Sales Account Manager talent data

Review and summary of sales talent analytics findings based on data from over 1,000 recent Sales Account Manager assessments. This “hybrid role” is one that many organisations use as the bedrock of their sales strategy. To have a core of salespeople able to carry out a straightforward account management function, while also being able to fulfil a new-business sales role… 

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

Sales skills among emerging and established economies

Comparing Finland with the “new order” of global players. Finland may seem like a strange choice of country to act as a baseline when comparing sales skills around the globe. But consider the nation’s economic history and maybe it is a touchstone for how the rest of Europe is likely to evolve. As a country, Finland was Swedish ruled for… 

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

Sales motivators – what drives your team?

The data analysis provided here offers insight into what motivates “account managers”. Motivators are the extrinsic factors that determine whether your salespeople really get up in the morning “ready to rock and roll”’ – or not! The global data in the following charts provide insight into what motivates people from different regions. It will help sales leaders decide whether in… 

Saturday, January 30th, 2016

Sales managers’ skills, critical reasoning and motivators around the globe

Continuing from the review of sales manager behaviours by region in the previous edition of the Journal, this time we are looking at regional variations in skills, critical reasoning and motivators (what motivates the individual sales manager) across the same group of sales managers. Data published in edition 1.3 (October 2015) indicated that sales managers in China were behaviourally less… 

Thursday, October 1st, 2015

How comfortable are sales managers in their roles?

Key takeaways There are clear common themes across all regions, especially notable is Planning and organising. “You would have thought that this would be a key factor for sales managers to be strong but clearly not!” comments Andrew Dugdale of SalesAssessment.com, the company that provided the data. Also notable by its absence is Interpersonal sensitivity – “yet another key sales…