Sales Pipeline Radio

Jim Obermayer sitting in for Matt today with guest, Ken Thoreson, of Acumen Management Group. Their firm is focused on execution, discipline, accountability to the sales organization. He has just published his fourth book in a series: SLAMMED: for the first time sales manager. The other three in the series are: Recruiting High Performance Sales Teams Leading High Performance Sales Teams Creating High Performance Sales Compensation Plans Some of what is covered in the book includes: How do you on-board a new sales manager? Within 6 months, new sales managers are usually slammed. Leadership and management skills playing together don't usually get taught. Lifespan of a sales manager is about 18 months.Marketing will go back and write a new plan, but the sales managers get fired. New sales managers seem to focus on micro issues, tracking numbers and activity, and forget they need to have emotional leadership and inspire people to execute. It is the manager's job to instill work ethic, intensity, high levels