First-line sales managers (FLMs) play a key role in helping a sales organization drive profitable revenue growth in an ever-changing business environment. But although directly responsible for managing and driving sales force performance, FLMs often don t get enough time, attention, and resources from sales leaders. Building a Winning Sales Management Team shows just how important FLMs are to sales organizations and what happens when companies underinvest in these key players.

Authors of four previous books on sales management, Zoltners, Sinha and Lorimer show in Building a Winning Sales...

Designing an incentive plan to turn sales reps into sales superstars

If you're like most sales leaders, your incentive program is a constant challenge, as you try to jumpstart sales, energize a geographically dispersed and autonomous workforce, and motivate salespeople to achieve ambitious revenue goals. And sometimes it seems like you just don't know what works; your products and markets are changing, the incentive program that was so successful last year no longer produces the desired results, or perhaps the generous incentive program you created has yielded a corps...

Sales forces have many moving pieces, and sales executives and managers face tremendous complexity as they seek to drive profitable revenue growth in today's challenging B2B selling environment.

In this book, global sales management thought leaders Andy Zoltners, Prabha Sinha, and Sally Lorimer share actionable ideas for enhancing the power of any sales force. By organizing insights from blogs around a proven sales force system framework the authors created, the book can help sales leaders:

Find hidden opportunities for sales growth
Size and structure their sales teams to meet...