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What Almost Every Sales Leader Screws Up in Hiring

A Sales Guy

How confident would you be picking your next sales person or sales leader without their resume. Would you feel more confident or less confident in your hiring decision. In all my years, I have never seen a talent evaluation process as part of the hiring process. Has it been shared with everyone in the hiring processs.

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Don’t Hire People Who Aren’t Great At Something Else!

A Sales Guy

I have been hiring sales people and sales leaders for years and overtime one particular, yet subtle, trend seems to surface quite often. When I hire, I look for personal stories or commitments to outside efforts and accomplishments. With that said, the argument is pretty sound. They are a manager. They are a foot soldier.

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How Long Are You Gonna Give em? [How to Get Rid of Bad Hires?]

A Sales Guy

How long are you going to give your new hire to get it? When it comes to new hires, it’s a question few of us entertain. Our kick ass new hire is an “A” player and they are gonna crush it. If a new hire isn’t going to work out, the longer they stick around the greater the cost to the organization.

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11 Concepts For Managing Yourself and Your Employees During Change

Anthony Cole Training

In today's blog, we discuss the notion that effective sales leadership requires leaders to meet the challenge during times of major change.

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You Can Hide in Video, But You Can’t Get Lost (Why Video Hiring Rocks!)

A Sales Guy

We’re hiring at A Sales Guy. A Sales Guy has a very unique culture in that we look for and embrace the gritty, cool, nerd who can SELL! There are way too many dorks in sales. And that’s OK, because it’s your choice, not the interviewers, not the hiring managers. Finding good people is hard.

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Stop Hiring People Who Can Sell [How to Hire Your Next Sales Manager]

A Sales Guy

When you’re hiring a sales manager, you don’t need someone who can sell, you need someone who knows how to get others to sell and those are entirely different skills. When hiring your next sales manager, don’t start with how well they sell but rather how well they lead. Make no mistakes about it.

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How to Hire “A” Players

A Sales Guy

Challenging customers, assessing complex businesses and selling processes, solving complex problems, developing sophisticated selling strategies, executing robust account plans are all the actions of “A” sales players. Hiring the best people possible is hard. Successful sales organizations have the best sales people.

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