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Why Core Competencies Are Hurting Your Sales Strategy

B2B Success Starts With Proven Skills And Knowledge

 and  three contributors
Aug 21, 2025

Summary

B2B sales leaders face myriad obstacles when executing on their stated strategic goals, and Forrester’s B2B Sales Survey, 2024, reveals that the top challenges lie within their own management scope, rather than among aligned functions they can’t control. This is a snapshot of Forrester’s data on how chief sales officers must uplevel around the top barriers — seller/manager skills and knowledge — with stronger competency-based sales talent lifecycle management and fully vet their revenue enablement and orchestration technologies to support modern, buyer-centric sales process and methodology standards.

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