Sales talent for a long time has been broken up into three groups: A-players, B-players and C-players. Everyone loves the A-players — they’re the ones who bring home the bacon, after all. The B-players show promise and, with the right training and motivation, could become A-players. The C-players? Well the less said, the better. This simplistic method of segmenting a sales force has worked for decades, but it dates to an earlier era when the sales process was much simpler. We’re not in that era any more.
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5 Reasons the Sales A-Player’s Era Is Ending
Posted by: Chris Bucholtz September 28, 2018 05:00 AMSales talent for a long time has been broken up into three groups: A-players, B-players and C-players. Everyone loves the A-players — they’re the ones who bring home the bacon, after all. The B-players show promise and, with the right training and motivation, could become A-players. The C-players? Well the less said, the better. This simplistic method of segmenting a sales force has worked for decades, but it dates to an earlier era when the sales process was much simpler. We’re not in that era any more.