Does Your Sales Training Program Address Your Sales Performance Issues Part 1
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Does Your Sales Training Program Address Your Sales Performance Issues? Part 1
Summary:
Discover a proven method to align sales skill training with performance issues for significant improvement.Key Concepts:
- Sales Prospecting- Sales Leadership
- Sales Training
- Sales Performance
- Sales Management Training
- Corporate Sales Training
- Train the Trainer
- Sales Skill Training
- Phone Sales Training
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Sales training programs are often comprehensive, covering everything from company policies and sales processes to CRM usage and skill enhancement. However, when I ask sales executives how their training aligns with performance issues, the response is often unclear.
Identifying Sales Performance Issues
There are four critical areas that affect the outcome of any sales team:
1. Percentage of Sales Reps Meeting Quota
2. Average New-Hire Ramp-to-Quota Time
3. Sales Employee Turnover Rate
4. Time Spent Versus Results Achieved
Understanding these areas helps pinpoint which training initiatives can deliver a tangible ROI. Start by analyzing the numbers within each category.
Example: Average New-Hire Ramp-to-Quota
Consider a company hiring 155 sales reps annually, aiming to ramp each new hire to meet quota. Currently, it takes 7 months for new hires to reach this goal. Is this a performance issue? Let’s break it down.
Step 1: Calculate Potential ROI
- Quota: $3,500 per rep
- Sales Cycle: 17 days
- Customer Agreement Term: 36 months
- Average Sub-Quota Revenue During Ramp: $1,300/month
Step 2: Hypothetical Improvement
By reducing the ramp-to-quota time by one month (from 7 to 6 months), the company could potentially yield an additional $79,200 per rep, culminating in $12,276,000 if applied across all new hires.
Step 3: Reality Check
Successful sales departments measure performance through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as the number of appointments leading to demonstrations or proposals. Our analysis revealed two issues:
1. Slow ramp-to-quota despite a 17-day sales cycle.
2. Only three new appointments per week, when six were needed.
With a 6% conversation-to-appointment ratio, they conducted 15 conversations to secure a single appointment.
Is reducing the ramp-to-quota realistic? Absolutely. They need to focus on boosting the number of sales appointments, ensuring alignment with their sales process.
Step 4: Set Goals and Train
To achieve a sales training ROI of $12,276,000, set a target of six appointments per week per rep. The diagnostic system showed that meeting this target could potentially shorten the new-hire ramp-to-quota to three months, delivering an ROI of $316,800 per rep or $49,104,000 overall.
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The lack of defined objectives is a common reason why sales training fails. By applying a diagnostic method, this company identified a clear objective.
In Part 2, we’ll explore two more performance issues?"Sales Employee Turnover Rate and Time Spent Versus Results Achieved?"using the same diagnostic approach.
You can find the original non-AI version of this article here: Does Your Sales Training Program Address Your Sales Performance Issues Part 1.
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