by Kahle Wisdom | May 7, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management
Question: I have three new salespeople and a handful of more experienced reps. I find myself spending a disproportionate amount of time with the new guys, and, therefore, ignoring the others. Is this OK? Or should I spread my coaching time around to be equally...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 24, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management
Q: I sell advertising for a local newspaper. In our sales compensation plan, we compete with our revenue numbers from the previous year, and approximately 6% is added to the previous year’s revenue number. That becomes your goal for that particular month. We get a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 24, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force
“My customers seem to have less time available for me than before. They are harder to see, and when I do get in front of them, they often seem rushed or preoccupied. What can I do about this?” Sound familiar? It’s a question that I am hearing more and more often. ...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 24, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management
Every manager has, or will, confront this troublesome issue — it is a common challenge for folks who are charged with improving sales. It’s arisen in almost every workshop for sales managers or branch managers I’ve done. One or more of your sales people has...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 9, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
My wife is a crises counselor. You would think that, by the very nature of the word crises, she would see a continually changing group of clients who were dealing with the occasional crises. Not so. She frequently engages with the same group of folks who lurch from...
by Kahle Wisdom | Mar 22, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Are things changing rapidly in your business? Silly question, isn’t it? Of course they are changing. Rapid change is the distinguishing characteristic of our age. Take that rapid change and add to it growing competition, increasing complexity, consolidations at...
