Are You Getting the Sales Person You Deserve? Reflecting on the major business challenges of prospects and clients in the past year, two problems consistently needed attention in their businesses.
Apart from the fact that any business needs good financial policies and application there-of, deliberately developing a high-performance sales team is key to the success of any business, and will deliver a consistent cashflow stream of income.
Are your sales team exceeding expectations?
Understanding the KPA’s (Key Performance Areas) of the sales team will certainly go a long way to helping you build a team of driven sales professionals for your business.
The KPA’s of the Sales Director/Manager would typically include:
So, is that what you would expect from your head of sales?
Take some time out and add to this list of KPA’s if need be.
Once you’ve done that …
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It’s occurred to me that quite a few of my clients like employing from a candidate pool of 1.
Yes, they quite often employ some-one they know or who they met as “walk-in” applicant or at a family social event they attended. They do this without comparing them with a few other candidates.
I guess some of this is because we like helping the jobless family member or son or daughter of a close friend or relative.
I believe that most of the time the person we want and that we should end up employing, must have a real passion for life and our business.
It reminds me of a real example where the female sales coordinator for an aggregate and earth moving business, believe it or not, has a real passion for large yellow metal equipment. She loves seeing them and being around them.
Your sales team must develop the know-like and trust of your clients and prospects in your business. They must deeply connect with your prospects and existing customers on the products and services that you sell.
Creating awesome sales teams is all about being clear on what we want from a new team member, what level of sales skills we require (yes there are tools to measure this) and what their level of ownership, accountability and responsibility will be.
In conclusion, all of this is only possible if you follow an agreed recruitment process, … your recruitment process. Creating a structure and following the recruitment system will give you comparable results and a baseline to measure from.
Remember, you should be slow in recruiting and consistent with your performance appraisals.
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Yours in great business,
Coach Bert
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