Managing your sales performance.
It goes without saying that salespeople like to see their performance measured in the right way. Moreover they are fond of submitting their sales reports. How do you think whether your sales process measurement is a sort of a reward system or it’s only a punishment system?
I hope you know that the main motivator for salespeople is their making sales first of all. But the question arises whether you sales measurement system helps your salesperson to make more sales or not. In this case the answer is closely connected with the priorities of your measurement system. I don’t exactly know whether you are interested in individual achievements of your staff or the number of orders in general.
But the problem is that in this case you are unable to manage the result as a sales manager. But at the same time it’s quite possible for you to manage the activity. In such a way you’ll have a great impact on results of your sales activity. It goes without saying that your salespeople will achieve positive results if they are doing everything in the right way. This law is rather obvious and rational from my point of view. But if you are eagerly looking forward to improve the situation in radical way then you should sell your products by yourself.
Just imagine that one of your salespeople has already collected a huge list of requests for quotation. He has spent the entire week doing this. But the problem is that this guy is still behind on his quotes. It seems to be that nothing can help him. Perhaps all prospects are going to be lost in this case. So as follows from this your subordinate requires your additional guidance. In this case you do the following things.
So you can order him stop doing this immediately. In this case all quotes will be cancelled. You can also tell thank him for his “great” week. You can praise his work in general. But at the same time you can ask him why any sales haven’t been made for this period of time. You should help him with priorities from my point of view. In fact nobody can help him. Only you can help him in this situation. By the way many guys like talking about discipline and duties of their stuff. But at the same time they ignore the role of education in this case. For these guys education of their salespeople is only a formal thing. And furthermore they can’t imagine that it’s their duty to teach their salespeople. It’s impossible to reach goals having an uneducated stuff at your disposal. So you should start educating your inexperienced guys right now if you want to achieve fantastic results.
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