Adopting an integrated approach to measure salesperson performance-Adopting an integrated approach to measure salesperson performance

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The webinar featured Javier Marcos and Peter Kerr discussing how to measure sales performance more effectively in today’s changing selling environment. They argued that relying mainly on revenue versus quota is increasingly insufficient because sales roles have expanded, markets are more volatile, customer expectations have risen, and sales cycles are longer and more complex.

They distinguished between <strong>effectiveness</strong> (business outcomes like revenue and customer results), <strong>efficiency</strong> (resource use and activity scalability), and <strong>competencies</strong> (skills, knowledge, and behaviors). Based on interviews with 39 sales leaders and a survey of 230 B2B salespeople, they found that organizations use a mix of objective and subjective measures, including financial outcomes, selling behaviors, skills, knowledge, activities, and customer outcomes.

They proposed a more holistic, integrated approach to measurement, emphasizing that good measures should be controllable, informative, aligned to strategy, limited in number, agreed with salespeople, reliable, and clearly communicated. They also warned that over-reliance on financial metrics can lead to bias, stress, poor coaching, dysfunctional behavior, and even gaming or fraud.

Their key message: sales performance should be assessed with a balanced scorecard, not a single metric.

Keywords

sales performance

balanced scorecard

revenue quota

effectiveness

efficiency

competencies

B2B sales

customer outcomes

sales metrics