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How to Motivate a Sales Team to Improve Each Rep’s Performance (3 “Types” and 12 Tips)

Sales Hacker

Clearly, new strategies alone aren’t enough to motivate a sales team. According to behavioral intelligence (BQ), it’s all about how you motivate your team. You see, BQ has found that motivation is a trigger for thoughts… which cause feelings… which yield action. Sure, these are all key motivators for your sales reps.

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What Are the Benefits of Gamification in Sales?

Closer's Coffee

Giving them opportunities to meet smaller, more frequent goals and experience rewards, even non-monetary ones, puts individuals back in the driver seat. Success isn’t as black and white of whether or not you hit your quota. But the gamification process intrinsically creates rewards that employees ‘unlock’. Celebrate openly.

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Don’t Set Goals, Master Your Skills

A Sales Guy

He is motivated by engaging in a deeper understanding of sales and what it takes to be the best sales person he can be. The ones she does read need to be instantly applicable to closing more deals or getting closer to quota or she’s not interested. Her motivation is driven by performance. David is motivated by mastery.

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How to Be a Leader that Inspires Your Sales Team

Openview

As John Greene at PhoneBurner put it: “Sales managers must take ownership of the success or failure of their sales team…As the leader of your business unit, it’s your job to educate , motivate , and provide a productive workplace…This is critical for your company’s growth and success.”. Ownership, educate, motivate, and provide.

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10 TED Talks Every Sales Professional Should Watch in 2018

Hubspot

Dan Pink: The Puzzle of Motivation. Great sales departments motivate their employees with incentives, contests, and -- you guessed it -- pep talks. Here are five valuable TED Talks from a productivity expert, a psychologist, an economist, a seventh-grade math teacher, and a motivational speechwriter to kick off your day.

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PODCAST 184: Mastering the 2 Ps: People & Process with Kerry Hudson

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode #183, check it out here : Dear Sales Team, Set Your Own Quotas, with Tom Glason. What are their intrinsic motivators? Kerry Hudson: We have a clear understanding of how to motivate each individual. How do you motivate the team? Different reps have different motivations.

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6 Steps to Designing a Sales Development Compensation Plan

SalesLoft

This is dollars left on the table due to ineffective processes for “defining, assigning, and managing territories, quotas, and incentives and compensation plans.”. Allow 70% of associates to meet or exceed quota. OTE is total cash compensation, inclusive of base salary plus variable commission, paid at 100% quota attainment.

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