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Sales Resource Group President Featured in The HR Gazette

The Sales Resource Group’s President, David Johnston, was published this week in Toronto-based HR publication, The HR Gazette. David Johnston’s latest article on sales compensation strategies is called Who Owns the Incentive Compensation Plan? and considers why so many incentive programs have failed to meet expectations, what are the root causes of lack of commitment and ownership by the executives, and how to create sales comp plans that will actually work. Here’s an

Sales Resource Group Founder Recently Interviewed on CPSA's SalesProChat Show

  Sales Resource Group Founder David Johnston was recently the special guest on the popular SalesProChat podcast with host Bill Banham. Dave has a broad, international consulting background and offers experience, active participation and a Sales Resource Group approach to consulting with clients. David has over 25 years experience consulting for organizations in diverse fields, such as broadcast and print media, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, information technology, retail, manufacturing and financial services. The

SALES COMP PLANS

In today’s competitive sales environment it is not sufficient to set a financial sales target and trust the salesperson to figure out how they are going to deliver it. Further, when this method is utilized across the sales force and all salespeople are left to deduce how to achieve their sales targets, they all interpret differently how to execute against the goals (most with honest intentions, but in the end,