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The Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook
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The Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook

by Prabhakant Sinha, Arun Shastri, Sally E. Lorimer
October 2024
Beginner
368 pages
7h 53m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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5. Hiring and Onboarding for Speed and Impact

When we ask sales leaders, “What percentage of your salespeople are excellent?” the normal range of answers is only 20 percent to 30 percent. There’s no question about it, hiring the right people, and enabling them to succeed, is hard. If you have ten salespeople on your team today, in a year two to five of them will most likely be gone—promoted or off to another job. You’ll have to hire their replacements. That’s why sustained success depends on your ability to bring quality and speed to hiring.

Salesperson hiring is a responsibility shared between headquarters—typically a hiring manager from sales or HR—and sales managers. The hiring manager’s role is to create job profiles, post jobs, screen ...

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