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Enablement Mastery
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Enablement Mastery

Grow Your Business Faster by Aligning Your People, Processes, and Priorities

Greenleaf Book Group, 2019 more...


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8

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Elay Cohen earned his reputation as a sales executive in one of the most successful organizations of the past 50 years – SalesforceHere, he explains the “sales enablement” function, what it means, how to build it and how its smooth functioning helps organizations succeed and sustain their success. Cohen’s information-rich and highly detailed how-to guide gives executives, managers and salespeople a blueprint for implementing a more rigorous sales process based on enablement. He suggests taking a top-down and bottom-up approach to sales, emphasizing learning and peer-to-peer knowledge, and leveraging appreciation and rewards. Though he may bounce a bit from topic to topic and sometimes repeat himself, sales managers and salespeople will benefit from his insight.  

Take-Aways

  • “Sales enablement” requires taking a top-down and bottom-up approach to improving sales.
  • Structure your team of “sales enablement professionals” to align with your firm’s highest priorities and goals.
  • Good enablement results in faster, better change initiatives.

About the Author

Elay Cohen led sales productivity and enablement at Salesforce, where he was honored as its top executive in 2011. He is co-founder and CEO of SalesHood, a sales improvement consulting and technology firm.


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    K. P. 5 years ago
    Insightful and a set of empowering activities that could boost team members and in turn the company sales performance ?