Cross-Industry Field Sales Force Effectiveness: Training Benchmarks

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"Cross-Industry Field Sales Force Effectiveness: Training Benchmarks"

STUDY OVERVIEW
As product and service differentiation becomes more difficult to achieve in the dynamic global marketplace, effective sales channels that provide direct access to business-to-business customers are becoming more strategically important. Even though the relevance of field sales groups is not in question, many field sales group leaders face growing pressure to reduce sales force investments and to ‘produce more with less’. Internal activity and efficiency measures are useful to assess the performance of field sales groups, but organizations also need to supplement internal measures with industry and cross-industry efficiency benchmarks to fully understand performance.

Best Practices, LLC's Cross-Industry Field Sales Force Effectiveness report provides key sales force training benchmarks that enable sales leaders to assess the effectiveness of their sales training programs.

SPECIAL RESEARCH NOTE
This research is part of a larger report, Cross-Industry Field Sales Force Excellence. Non-members: if you purchase this document, within 30 days you can credit it toward the full report or a Database membership. Members of all of Best Practices, LLC's services (Global Benchmarking Council, Business Excellence Board or Best Practice Database) receive a 15% discount on reports.

KEY TOPIC AREAS

• Training Time Allocation
• Training Content
• Training Delivery Methods
• Outsourcing Sales Training
• Training Effectiveness

Example of Data Slide:

• Training Days Per Employment Period
• Cumulative First Year Training Days
• Ongoing Training Days Per Year
• Training Delivery Methods Comparisons
• Outsourcing Sales Training Levels
• Months To New Hire Effectiveness

• Participant Sales Force Size
• Participant Sales Force Change – 1 Year
• Participant Sales Force Change – 2 Years
• Participant Sales Force Change – 5 Years
• Sales Force Change – Consulting
• Sales Force Change – Manufacturing
• Sales Force Change – Pharmaceutical
• Sales Force Change – Software
• Sales Force Structure
• Value Of A Sale
• Span of Control

Industries Profiled:
Financial Services; Service; Health Care; Pharmaceutical; Diagnostic; Biotech; Manufacturing; Energy; Medical Device; Consumer Products; Computer Software; High Tech; Electronics


Companies Profiled:
AAA; Abbott; Allergan; Ayurvet; Berlex; Borgwarner; Clubcar; CMG Capital; Crest Healthcare; Drake International; Dresser-Rand; Eli Lilly; General Electric; Johnson & Johnson; Kraft; Medrad; Microsoft; Novartis; Pfizer; Ricoh; Roche; WL Gore; Orion Pharmaceuticals; Indevus; Myriad; North Safety

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