By Jeff Beals
Attention Sales leaders, these nine essentials of good sales leadership will help you choose the right staff, help them be successful and keep them around for many years:
- The person in charge of sales should be considered a sales “leader” and not a sales “manager.”
- Sales leaders must think quickly and take immediate action to mitigate any threat to the organization’s ability to sell.
- Successful sales leaders accept responsibility and accountability, but they realize a leader is not the same thing as a supervisor or a foreman.
- One of a sales leader’s single most important duties is resource acquisition—providing the sales force with everything it needs.
- Be careful not to be blinded by great salespersons who might have fatal flaws and clients who are too good to be true.
- When hiring sales team members, remember that frequent past behavior is the best predictor of future success.
- Create a detailed sales how-to book that is as analogous to a football team’s playbook.
- A quality mentoring program can make up for unsophisticated sales training. Mentorship can be as beneficial for mentors as it is for the mentees.
- In managing egos, sales leaders need to be clear about the sales expectations for each salesperson.
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