Successful incentive compensation plans push the right buttons to achieve optimal results for sales organizations.  In their most basic form, you can consider incentive compensation plans to be a series of if/then statements.  If reps achieve targets, then incentives are paid out.  If reps fail to hit strategic sales goals, then...

As many sales organizations evaluate the year that was and look ahead to 2018, most, if not all, will be scrutinizing their current incentive compensation plan to improve performance and correct mistakes moving forward to the following year.  One aspect of this evaluation is to consider draw programs and their impact on...