Reflect the heat
Employees not performing like you need, but… “You can’t stand in the heat long and often enough to drive out wrong behavior.”
Sales managers lacking backbone and… “The pain of positive change is greater than the pain of staying the same and you don’t like pain.”
Ever been told either of these things? Or have you ever heard yourself thinking it about your sales manager? If so, then you’re a perfect candidate to put a system (the right system) in place to help measure and manage whoever is responsible for driving sales revenue.
let the system manage itself, for you
Clear and realistic expectations, agreed upon metrics, accurate methods for measuring with frequent, concise communication of the results is what a good “system” looks like. Do you have one? Don’t feel bad, most don’t. Having built more than a handful from scratch, I can vouch for the before / after effects and that the effort to create it was well worth the results and stress reduction.
COMING SOON - the salesmology toolbox. It will help those of you who know what you need, know you need it in a bad way, but DON’T know how to build the system you need and can’t afford enterprise-grade software.
Hang tight, help is on the way.
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sales-mol-ogy (seylz-MOL-uh-jee) - noun: the science of simplified, practical application techniques and principles for highly effective 2 to 50 person revenue generation teams.
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Posted by salesmologist on August 20th, 2008 filed in Compensation, Goals, Leadership, Structure |
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