sales recruiting
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Masks and Sales Assessments – You Lose a Little Freedom and Control for Safety and Confidence
- September 18, 2020
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
The same thing happens when clients use Objective Management Group’s (OMG) accurate and predictive sales candidate assessments. They lose a little freedom because they no longer arbitrarily interview salespeople who they feel like interviewing, and refrain from simply offering positions to people because they have a gut feeling about a candidate. However, they lose some control because one half to two-thirds of the candidates will not be recommended when they aren’t great fits for the particular sales role for which the company is hiring, or simply aren’t very good salespeople – period.
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Using the Power of a Duracell to Help You Hire Perfect Salespeople
- April 25, 2019
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Apparently, Duracell 9 volt batteries are the picture of consistency.
Last night, all 7 of our upstairs smoke detecters starting squawking within about 30 minutes of each other to indicate that their batteries needed to be replaced. Given that the Duracells were installed in those units on the same day 4 years ago, one would hope that there are more things that we could rely upon to be as consistent and predictable.
One of those things is Objective Management Group’s sales candidate assessments.
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Six Overlooked Factors When Hiring Salespeople
- April 11, 2019
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I’ve been sick with my annual bout of asthmatic bronchitis – fun stuff – and the question I’ve been asking myself is, “how long will it last this year?” Historically, it’s takes 2-4 weeks for this to subside and it sucks big time during that 2-4 weeks. But thinking about time frames got me thinking about one of the universal timelines and challenges facing companies everywhere.
How long should it take for a new salesperson to become successful and why do so many of them fail?
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Hiring Salespeople Should Not be Like a Coin Flip
- February 6, 2019
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Hiring salespeople does not have to be like a pot luck supper or a coin flip. If you are selective instead of impulsive, good things will happen. Take a look at the image below.
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The Wrong Salespeople are Hired 77% of the Time
- November 13, 2018
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
94% of sales managers are optimistic about their salespeople. That’s a very surprising statistic for a couple of reasons:
50% or more of their salespeople won’t hit their quotas this year and haven’t since at least 2008.
Objective Management Group’s (OMG’s) findings from the evaluations and assessments of salespeople show that 50% of all salespeople are weak.Sales managers believe that 50% of their salespeople are good and 44% of their salespeople have potential. Of course, they are using subjective, rather than objective approaches to measuring what “good” is.
How do you measure good?
Salespeople consistently meet or exceed quota or expectations
You like your salespeople, they work hard, don’t give you any trouble, are positive, don’t miss quota by too much, sometimes bring in good customers, are advocates of the company and brand, and are good influences, etc.Unfortunately, a lot of sales managers choose the second option.
Why? Many sales managers aren’t very good at what they do! Only 10% of all sales managers are effective at both coaching and coaching consistently and when it comes to holding salespeople accountable, they aren’t much better. Review the table below:
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Golden Nuggets from the CSO Insights 2018 Sales Talent Study
- October 25, 2018
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I had a chance to review the CSO Insights 2018 Sales Talent Study and extracted some fascinating data. I thought it might be interesting to take their data, overlay some of Objective Management Group’s (OMG) data, and see what we can take away from that.
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How to Eliminate the Need for Sales Motivation, Accountability and More!
- April 10, 2017
- Posted by: Kurlan & Associates, Inc.
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
What if I told you there was a way to completely eliminate the need to manage the pipeline, motivate, recruit and hold salespeople accountable? There is and I’m going to share it with you!
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How to Get Prospects to Buy from You More Frequently!
- December 1, 2015
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
It’s a simple concept, really, but 74% of all salespeople aren’t very good at getting most people to buy from them. Even though the concept is simple, it seems really complicated to the group that can’t do it. Of course, most salespeople wouldn’t agree that they can’t do it, even when their win rates are below 50%. And in some tech businesses, salespeople seem to be happy with win rates under 20%. It’s incredible that people can become so darn comfortable with mediocrity! Solving the problem is easy when we have willing participants, so let’s discuss how to solve it once and for all.
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The Phony Baloney Sales Superstar
- April 20, 2015
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I was in the car when the call was forwarded to my cell phone. I didn’t recognize the caller and his first statement was, “I have some questions about Objective Management Group (OMG).” Very Dry. Very Abrasive.
I was thinking detective, maybe researcher. I asked, “What kind of questions?” Keep in mind that he hadn’t said hello, introduced himself, or explained why he was calling so I was wondering what this was about.
He said, “I took one of your assessments and it prevented me from getting a job. Is this based on the Myers-Briggs?”
I calmly explained that Myers-Briggs was a personality assessment that reported on 16 dimensions of personality but the OMG assessment he took was sales specific and looked at 21 Sales Core Competencies.
He told me he had problems with the Myers-Briggs preventing him from getting a job once before so it must be based on that. He repeated that it prevented him from getting this job so I asked what led him to that conclusion. His answers will blow your mind!
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Top 5 Keys to Select and Hire Great Salespeople in 2015
- December 8, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I’m always amused when an email comes through with a message that says something like, “Maybe we should target candidates that aren’t recommended” or “Why do so many candidates lack Commitment?” or “Your assessments are only recommending 1 out of every 5 candidates!” or “The questions don’t fit the role!” or “Thanks for saving us so much time – we would have hired some of these losers last year!”
I can usually determine, just from the comment of the email, exactly who, by title, must have sent it to us. Here are some funny examples: