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September 26, 2011, Washington D.C.: Key leaders from India and the US participated in a meeting convened by the US-India CEO Forum on September 22, 2011 in Washington, DC. The CEO Forum met to establish an action plan for raising more investment and strengthening bilateral trade efforts. The Alliance for US India Business (AUSIB) lauded the process of highlighting the significant role played by private-sector players in the US-India business partnership. AUSIB has been instrumental in accentuating and catalyzing bipartisan trade activities between the two countries since 2004.

The CEO Forum reviewed the status of the past ventures, announced activities that have been successfully completed since November 2010, when the last CEO Forum happened, and discussed new endeavors undertaken by the US and Indian public-private sectors in 2011. Earlier, the Forum’s members sent a report to President Obama and Prime Minister Singh recommending greater efforts in the areas of e-health, education, infrastructure, energy, and the others.

Some important initiatives during the September 2011 Forum were – the Indian Government announced guidelines for an Infrastructure Debt Fund; CEOs from both the countries pledged to work unitedly for development of water awareness fund and campaign; the CEO Forum, in association with the US Department of Energy (DOE), proposed to advance implementation of the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC); and The US EXIM, OPIC, and USTDA agreed to facilitate development and expansion of cold chain systems leveraging American technology in India.

Sanjay Puri, President of AUSIB, applauded the CEO Forum’s efforts and said: “Both the US and Indian governments should beef up and contribute even more towards nurturing the collaborative trade relationship, and focus especially on energy, biotechnology, and infrastructure.”

The CEO Forum co-chairs Ratan Tata and David Cote welcomed the participation of Indian Minister of Finance Pranab Mukherjee, Indian Minister of Commerce Anand Sharma, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, US Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk, Deputy National Security Advisor Michael Froman, and Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia. Moreover, the meeting was attended by many American and Indian CEOs and senior Indian and US officials. Deputy Secretaries of State William Burns and Thomas Nides hosted the Forum.

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ADDING ‘RECOGNITION’ TO THE SALES COMPENSATION MIX

Sales Managers Should Consider Rewarding Salespeople…
for More Than Just Closing the Deal

NEW YORK (September 28, 2011) – As we emerge from one of the most difficult economic periods in recent history, companies should reevaluate their current compensation plans and consider rewarding sales forces for how they conduct business as well as for closed contracts. Acknowledging the value-building behaviors that are critical to selling success ultimately results in a deeper level of trust and confidence between sales representatives and prospects, and can set a smart company apart from its competitors.

According to the most recent Performance Perspective executive briefing released by Madison Performance Group, salespeople should be rewarded for all the steps they manage through the sales process: targeting, planning, messaging, collaborating and negotiating.

Madison Performance Group is the worldwide leader in developing employee engagement and incentive marketing programs for Fortune 1000 corporations that include CA, Citigroup, Kawasaki and Siemens. The company implements customized strategies to motivate workers, applying proprietary sales and marketing techniques to maximize employees’ success.

As highlighted in the new Performance Perspective, companies should consider adding a recognition element to the compensation mix. The mechanics of recognizing the preparation and professional performance that lead to success-from the initial stage to the completed transaction-can be supported through an intuitive, web-based tool that allows sales managers to set team or individual goals and then reward accordingly.

In 2010, less than half of all salespeople hit or exceeded their numbers. While that may not be surprising, the impact of anxiety on selling behaviors was disturbing. According to Mike Ryan, Senior Vice President, Madison Performance Group, “Added pressure on salespeople propelled them to take shortcuts, to short-circuit the value-building, customer-nurturing processes that worked in better times.”

Compensation plans may reward greatness, but they don’t nurture it. The majority of plans are conventional in nature and do not motivate the behaviors that lead to success. And in today’s economy, salespeople need to become a source of competitive advantage. Integrating a recognition program allows sales managers to nurture and encourage sales professionals to vigorously research prospects and then engage those potential buyers in a consultative and disciplined manner during each phase of the sales process. Compensation schemes should include a subjective element that management can use to reward their sales teams for behaviors that evoke buyers’ trust and lead to business generation and the building of brand advocates.

“Giving managers the tools they need and the discretion to use them allows them the flexibility to effectively set objectives and focus actions on specific targets or within active pieces of business,” says Ryan. “It also gives managers the ability to offer guidance in a manner that supports the larger growth objectives of salespeople. At the same time, the right tools afford the selling organization the control, diagnostics and reporting resources it needs to monitor program activity and utilization.”

Ryan adds, “A recognition initiative that celebrates selling skills can be not only effective, but inherently affordable. Salespeople who distinguish themselves at every customer interaction are more successful and profitable than those who don’t.”

“A properly designed recognition program will refocus representatives on the type of preparation and due diligence that leads to better closing rates and higher margins, while also expanding the sales manager’s ability to nurture sales performance at the local level. And neither requires any modification to the current compensation infrastructure,” concludes Ryan.

About Madison Performance Group:

Over the course of nearly four decades, Madison Performance Group has become respected for its ability to create hundreds of uniquely tailored programs, allowing corporations to optimize workforce engagement and maximize company success. Priding itself on its innovative ideas and strategic incentive marketing solutions, Madison helps build a corporation’s competitive advantage in today’s rapidly evolving, global marketplace.

Madison Performance Group has grown to become a worldwide resource for companies interested in enhancing the effectiveness of their current workforces, with headquarters in Manhattan and offices in China, Brazil, Sweden and Mexico.

Historically, Madison has represented blue-chip clients in a range of industries-from automotive and biotechnology to financial and telecommunications-to motivate and engage their employees and create unparalleled sales incentive programs. Madison is proud to include such leading brands and global organizations as CA, Citigroup, Kawasaki and Siemens on its client roster.

To learn more about Madison, please visit Madison Performance Group.

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Mike Ryan is available for interview.