Optimising Your Sales Compensation Programme-Optimising-Your-Sales-Compensation-Programme

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The discussion focused on how to design effective sales compensation by solving the real business problem, not just tweaking commission rates. Mark Dinolo and Michelle Seeger from Sales Globe explained that many sales comp issues are really symptoms of deeper problems such as unclear roles, weak sales strategy, product issues, or poor quota setting.<br /><br />They emphasized a problem-solving approach: investigate the situation thoroughly, define a better “challenge question,” and align compensation to company goals. Using examples, they showed how adding spiffs or incentives will not fix performance if the real issue is misaligned products, segmentation, or strategy.<br /><br />Key topics included:<br />- Aligning pay to sales roles and business strategy<br />- Using appropriate pay mix to drive the right behavior<br />- Keeping compensation plans simple with three or fewer measures<br />- Setting quotas based on market opportunity, sales capacity, and people/process alignment<br />- Communicating the plan clearly through repeated, targeted messages and analytics<br /><br />They also discussed best practices for payout timing, transparency, and the use of non-financial incentives like recognition and contests. Overall, the message was that sales compensation should be a communication tool tied tightly to strategy, role design, and business outcomes.

Keywords

sales compensation

commission rates

sales strategy

quota setting

pay mix

sales roles

incentives

performance alignment