Unlocking Sales Success: Hiring and Retaining High-Performing Teams

In this episode of the Love Your Sales podcast, presented by Genhead, host Leighann discusses the intricacies of sales hiring and team building with guest Brian Maas, an expert in sales and leadership with over 26 years of experience. The conversation delves into the common pitfalls of sales hiring, the importance of creating detailed job descriptions, and the necessity of understanding the varying competencies required for different types of sales roles. Brian emphasizes the significance of proper onboarding, continuous coaching, and tailored motivational strategies. Additionally, the discussion touches on the need for a balanced compensation plan and the advantages of using specific sales talent assessments. The episode wraps up with actionable insights for founders, presidents, and sales managers aiming to build and scale high-performing sales teams. Contact Brian - Email - [e-mail] LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmaas/ Website - www.intentionalselling.com Special Thank you to our Sponsors – Genhead – www.genhead.com and Accelerategrowth45 and the AG45 Soul Aligned Strategy Podcast – www.accelerategrowth45.com Robb Conlon – Intro and outro – Westport Studio - https://www.westportstudiosllc.com/ The Brave Ones – Instrumental Version Song by Jan Sanejko - https://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/the-brave-ones/119489 Ready to grow your business? Schedule a call with us today - https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/discoverysalesleighann Channel Subscribe link - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-O7W9DzaRv4waodQKCprIg?sub_confirmation=1 #sales #businessdevelopment #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #selling #relashionships #customerexperience #podcast #loveyoursales #lastingrelashionships #salescareers #salesmanager #salesdevelopment #traininganddevelopment #leadershipdevelopment #salespodcast #salestraining Leighann Lovely: Welcome to another episode of Love Your Sales. I am joined by Brian Moss. Brian specializes in empowering founders, presidents, and sales Managers to build and scale high performing sales teams with confidence, clarity, and intention. With over 26 years of expertise in sales and leadership, Brian has partnered with small to midsize businesses to implement a data-driven process to identify [00:02:00] interview. Onboard high performing salespeople who will sell in your unique selling environment and equip business leaders with a scalable framework. His mission is help companies avoid bad sales hires and build strong, high performing sales teams. Welcome Brian. I am so excited to talk about this. Brian Maas: Thank you for having me, and thank you for all that you do for the business community. Leighann Lovely: Well, so let's jump in because, um, I, well, first why don't you. Tell us a little bit about, you know, your business, what you do, you know, how, I guess, well, we'll get into the, how you do this, but Yeah, yeah. Just, you know, kind of fill in some of the blanks. Brian Maas: Yeah. So when I, when I decided to go on my own and, and start my own business, I wanted to help sales, uh, organizations just be more, uh, effective in how they grow sales and how they grow. And one of the things I was realizing was. That one of the most costly mistakes that sales [00:03:00] organizations make, of course, is, uh, sales hiring. And, uh, through all the years that I've done sales hiring, I've just learned some of the do's and don'ts around it. Um, I've learned which tools and processes to use, and so I'm, uh, helping companies, uh, put those same processes and best practices into place so that they can avoid, of course, the high cost of sales turnover. So that's, that's, that's what I do today. Leighann Lovely: So it, we've all, I think anybody who's been in business or been working out in the world for as long as well, I have, um, I'll speak for myself. I won't date you. Um, I think we've all, um, experienced that. Sitting next to somebody who you're like, how is this guy still or gal, um, still working at this company, you know, in the sales capacity. Yeah, why haven't they got, why haven't they gotten fired or how did they even get hired? Um, so I'm intrigued, [00:04:00] you know, how, and, and salespeople, people are notoriously great at being able to speak a great game. You know, my dad always used to say like, well, you can go and get any job you want because you're really good at selling yourself. Right, right. So let's talk about that. How, you know, yeah. What do you, how do you help businesses with this? Brian Maas: Well, I, I think this is twofold. You know, you, you touched on it really well in that salespeople are really good at selling themselves. I think sometimes they tend to think they're better than they really are. They're going after maybe positions that they aspire to be in. Um, and yet you've got sales hiring managers who many of them just don't have a whole lot of experience in how to ...