Overview
If you're in charge of hiring, training and developing inside sales reps, then what you're about to read may shock you a little bit, but it will also resonate with you and explain why many of the reps you hire ultimately fail.
In their book, "How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer" by Herb Greenberg, Harold Weinstein and Patrick Sweeney, they compared results from hundreds of thousands of assessments that were conducted over several decades with actual sales performance measurements and concluded:
#1) 55 percent of the people earning their living in sales should be doing something else, and
#2) Another 20 to 25 percent (of salespeople) have what it takes to sell, but they should be selling something else.
Before you dismiss these results as far-fetched, think about your own inside sales team. If you're like most companies, you probably have the 80/20 rule where 80% of your sales and revenue are made by your top 20% producers. What that means is that the other 80% of your reps struggle to make quota (or rarely do), and I'll bet that over the course of a year or two, half of these reps have either quit, been fired, or you wish they would move on.
This white paper explains what steps to take, when you start thinking about personnel on your sales team...
In their book, "How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer" by Herb Greenberg, Harold Weinstein and Patrick Sweeney, they compared results from hundreds of thousands of assessments that were conducted over several decades with actual sales performance measurements and concluded:
#1) 55 percent of the people earning their living in sales should be doing something else, and
#2) Another 20 to 25 percent (of salespeople) have what it takes to sell, but they should be selling something else.
Before you dismiss these results as far-fetched, think about your own inside sales team. If you're like most companies, you probably have the 80/20 rule where 80% of your sales and revenue are made by your top 20% producers. What that means is that the other 80% of your reps struggle to make quota (or rarely do), and I'll bet that over the course of a year or two, half of these reps have either quit, been fired, or you wish they would move on.
This white paper explains what steps to take, when you start thinking about personnel on your sales team...
