Accelerate! With Andy Paul

Karen Clarke is the SVP and Managing Director for the Americas at Anaplan. In the current market, sales leaders face many challenges including a slowdown in the economy, difficulty finding staff, and sales attrition. Leaders must use data that provides insights into shifting buying behaviors.  Karen discusses the main things sales leaders should focus on for profitable growth like ensuring the alignment of sellers to the business objectives, knowing how to balance sales resources across the business, and the increasingly critical role of sales enablement and execution as the market gets tougher. Andy and Karen then dig into key concerns like attrition and capacity issues and how to deploy talent in the most effective way across territories. When planning for the next fiscal year, sales leaders should think carefully about how to segment their territories and target their reps in the most promising markets. HIGHLIGHT QUOTES CROs must get data on where sellers sell best - Karen: "Combining that with data in t