Sales Growth Tag

Are you losing the war on talent? You’ve recruited and hired top talent, but now you’re not able to retain them. 60% of Millennials are actively floating their resumes right now. It is easy to chalk these stats up to millennial flightiness, but from my experience, the problem runs much deeper. Want to know more?

My husband, Gordon, and I, love to go on long motorcycle trips.  Right now we are on the road again to witness the gorgeous explosion of red, orange, and yellow on the maple trees of Vermont.  Yes, we are ‘leaf peepers’, as some of the locals call us! I’m the passenger and Gordon is the driver. I’m always worried that it might be too stressful for him to do these long distances. He just laughs and says, ‘This is the good kind of stress!’  But there’s a different kind of “bad” stress that’s affecting the sales performance of our up-and-coming sales leaders. What are you doing to help your Millennial Sales Leaders to beat workplace burnout?

I still savor Jim Collins’ sage advice: “First, put the right people on the bus. Then, get the wrong people off the bus and get the right people into the right seats. Then you can drive the bus anywhere.” To get the growth you’re charting and envision in your strategic growth plan, one of the “right people” needed on your business bus is a competent sales manager and leader. A sales leader who – gets it, wants, it and has the capacity to do it. So, what are the components of “it”?