leadership

Leadership: passion and resilience, lessons from Phil Knight.
Leadership: passion and resilience, lessons from Phil Knight. 750 423 Bruno Sireyjol

Reading is an integral part of the entrepreneurs’ and leaders’ journey. Namely if you work in consulting, your experience and knowledge will quickly expire if you don’t nourish your brain and broaden your perspectives with new ideas and concepts. Reading brings food for thought. But there is so much to do, and so much to…

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Bold & Sharp: vous avez embauché le mauvais patron des ventes
Leadership: did you hire the wrong CRO?
Leadership: did you hire the wrong CRO? 1024 682 Bruno Sireyjol

It is easy for companies going through a slump to shift the blame on sales. Dropping sales root causes may range from a lack of alignment between sales and strategy, false or invisible differentiation, sales and marketing divide, or poor product positioning to name a few. Sales may sometimes be the ones to blame. Yet,…

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Sales leadership: 4 étapes steps to reconnect after your vacations.
Sales leadership: 4 étapes steps to reconnect after your vacations. 800 534 Bruno Sireyjol

In our previous article Vacation tips for Sales Leaders, we acknowledged that it is neither possible nor recommended for some leaders to disconnect. Always-on leaders’ brain is never off. Whether you belong to this kind of leader or not, we sincerely hope you enjoyed your vacations. Some of you may have found our tips useful.…

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Sales KPIs
Sales KPIs 300 200 admin9696

A limited version of “The World of Sales KPIs” is available for download. The topic of sales performance measurement is endless. Without overwhelming you with numbers and figures about all the available KPIs, we give in the sections below some keys to manage your sales organization while debunking some myths on performance measurement and sales…

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Corporate values: you are accountable…
Corporate values: you are accountable… 600 400 admin9696

You are accountable.   The more we are involved in sales teams’ performance issues, the more conversations we have on accountability. Accountability is common in sales teams’ top values list. When brainstorming with the teams on what values reflect their culture and summarize what they stand up for, accountability is nowhere to be seen. While…

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5 management mistakes and how to fix them
5 management mistakes and how to fix them 640 427 Boldandsharp

Being a sales manager is not easy, especially level 1 management, where you are in direct contact with your sales people. You have to find the balance between managerial fundamentals, coaching, guiding, innovating while driving the business of your team. In working with our clients to boost their sales performance, we have identified 5 critical…

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What sales management can learn from Lean.
What sales management can learn from Lean. 640 427 Boldandsharp

Lean means fast, lively, flexible, slender. Renowned for its tools, it would be simplistic to confine Lean to a pool of ideas and methods. Lean is above all the ability to act and react quickly thanks to agile thinking and nimble processes where customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and team process improvement are at the heart…

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