Guide
Keeping the Sales Quota Setting from Falling Apart
Many companies struggle with sales quota-setting when incentive plans collapse under market shifts, prompting reactive, flawed adjustments. To prevent this, organizations should set differentiated growth targets that account for territory disparities, ensuring fairness and motivation. Rebalancing accounts helps level opportunities and improve customer coverage. Governance is also critical—clear decision rights and frameworks like RASCI align sales with broader business goals and prevent self-regulation pitfalls. Finally, exceptions should be tightly managed via a cross-functional committee, with documented requests, net-neutral adjustments, and limits on changes to preserve quota integri
