Leaders Build Business: Effectively Mentor and Coach Your Sales Team
By Adella Pasos
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About this ebook
Finally, the book contains solid advice that you can believe in. If you are in charge of sales for a company, in any capacity, you need this book. Each of these recommendations is an essential part of building your path to becoming the best leader you could ever be. Develop the skills you need to be successful in any industry.
A large variety of topics are covered in this book, ranging from sales management, tips for designing a sales focused organization, technology solutions to boost sales, ways to keep a team happy, methods to reduce turnover, mentoring vs training programs, sales and marketing alignment, how to motivate an unproductive team, and more!
What's Inside?
--- Why a Sales Team is Important
What makes a good sales team
How does a sales team work
What defines success in sales
--- The Sales Team's Structure
The 4 Core Sales Roles
Organizing a team to quickly scale
Creating a sales team development plan
Tips for designing a sales focused organization
--- How to Support A Sales Team
Organizing and standardizing your sales processes
Why use a CRM system to manage sales
Reasons to adopt technology solutions to boost sales
Sales training & kick-off meetings priorities
Marketing materials and collaboration tools
--- Developing Sales Leaders to Improve Results
Performance issues that may arise
how to decide on your sales training initiatives
Using more experienced sales team members to coach newbies
How to reflect on performance
Identifying each sales person’s potential
Topics that should be discussed in your training program
--- Ways to Keep a Sales Team Happy
Being fair with lead disbursement and quotas
Rewards for good selling behavior
Marketing support materials
Creating a bonus compensation structure
Giving your team a sense of achievement
--- How to Reduce Sales Team Turnover
How to identify situations where the team finds difficulties
Ways to communicate your sales goals
How to inspire confidence, energy and enthusiasm
Personal encouragement and motivational strategies
--- Mentoring vs Coaching vs Training
Basic skills and knowledge acquisition process
How to improve your team’s competencies and capabilities
Setting timelines for training / coaching completion
Adella Pasos
This Entrepreneur and Marketing Expert, has shared her passion for growing brands from the ground up. She’s worked with Entrepreneurs,Startups, Small Businesses, Fortune 500 Corporations and Entertainment Talent to help them recognize the value of marketing, and give her clients the ability to access their niche market via online, social media, mobile, merchandising, and events. She hosts the What's Your Game Plan Show that features Free Expert Advice, and Growth strategies for Business Owners Across the Globe. Access thousands of FREE Tips, Trends & Tools to Move Your Business Forward! Learn more : www.AdellaPasos.com
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Leaders Build Business - Adella Pasos
CONCLUSION
Introduction
THROUGHOUT THE COURSE of this book you will learn how to create, grow and cultivate a group of people with the right combination of skills to take your business to the next level. Throughout my career, I worked with several members of executive teams and business stakeholders. Each encounter allowed me the opportunity to help them learn the art of fostering a good sense of teamwork.
Everything that I experienced, I put into this book to help you lay the foundations for an incredibly successful team, capable of partnering, collaborating, and innovating in an atmosphere of trust and understanding.
The term leader
means different things, to different people. Some people define it as a quality that only belongs to people with significant political or financial power. Others assume that leading
can only be done by the achievement of a particular title such as CEO, president, or mayor. What you should always remember is, everyone has the potential to develop qualities of leadership.
Great leaders have the capacity to motivate others to accomplish and crush their goals. A leader is a person who affects others' thoughts and behaviors by using imagination, inspiration, commitment, and collaborative team building to accomplish objectives.
Becoming a leader does not necessarily mean having all
the power. Because not all people in a position of power have the ability to drive change. The first step in becoming a leader is establishing what you want to achieve. Once you do this, you’ll understand the direction in which you’ll need to go.
Chapter 1
Why A Sales Team is Important
What makes a good sales team?
MANY COMPANIES TODAY are working hard to develop productive sales teams that outperform their competitors. Creating a working atmosphere in which people stay motivated and want to actually participate is not always a walk in the park. However, the question still remains, how do you actually build a great team?
In a team-oriented environment, individual contributions are required to help the team and the organization progress. Each team member will become more and more satisfied when they are able to work in a completely sales focused, supportive environment.
But, how do you give them what they need to be successful? It's not easy to develop teams. Plenty of effort and time should be invested to achieve the performance that a sales team will need to produce. Here are a few simple tips to get you on the fast track to creating a great sales team.
Communication
Communication is the most critical part of creating a sales team. This helps people concentrate on their commitments for the day, week, month, or even longer. It is essential to have a system in place where people get, give, and receive honest feedback from each other. The development of an ‘employee’ community in which team members are able to connect effectively and socially will also help to create a stronger sales team.
Consequences and Rewards
Employee compensation and commissions have an effect on the activities and performance of team leaders. When a team member achieves something fantastic, a reward for the accomplishment should be recognized as something to aspire for.
Conversely, if there is a moment when a participant lets the team down, adequate punishment should be given. Do not consider a harsh punishment, but just the kind of penalty that the team and the person will learn from their mistakes and improve further.
The Committed Team
Group leaders must dedicate themselves to making the team successful. This sign of dedication and support indicates the leader's willingness to make sure the team will remain focused, keep commitments and meet the sales goals. A good leader’s work will always be remembered. Regular preparation, resources, and coaching is essential to sustaining a motivated and dedicated sales team.
Innovation
A creative team that is continually searching for ways to develop helps to build an outstanding team. Assessing the contributions of team leaders who may have an exciting concept helps create this community and rejoices imaginative team members. Innovative sales teams always come up with new and creative solutions to any issue and may eventually overdo teams who concentrate on one thing and do not want to change their ways.
Feeling Competent
When the team doesn't really feel confident, or up to the roles it was assigned, it will crumble easily into a negative attitude. When the team sees a deficiency in a particular purpose or mission, the easiest fix is to provide a solution like tailored training. Access to the correct tools often leads to improved competences, and the lack of them can build a serious issue.
How Does a Sales Team Work?
History is often said to have repeat itself, so there is no unique
selling past. Whether it’s a discussion about prospecting, sales talking points, or uncovering value, you’ll always hear, We’ve tried that before
. Let's take a look at the different ways in which companies have been attempting to make sales effective over the last 100 years.
1890-1920: Marketing Engineering Age
The selling limit. During this time, innovative organizations concentrated on identifying sales goals. We knew that sales people had to establish trustful relationships and to be experts on their goods and services. Most specifically, businesses focused on identifying effective sales processes, strategies, and approaches. Around this time, people started to think and write about what the sales process included.
Most specifically, people sought to educate new sales people proactively about the nature of their trade. The bulk of the learning was casual and cantered on teaching people how to sell by example and coaching. Pioneering sales managers made it possible for fellow managers and new salespeople to be tracked by isolating the transaction at a particular moment on why it happened, what happened, and also how to eliminate errors in the future.
Because the sales managers were usually experienced sales people, they could relay tales and share effective techniques for customer interaction. Here are the questions they considered during this era:
Should we set up a sales incentive program?
Does the sales training concentrate on creating experts in the field?
How long should the standard training process take?
Should the company concentrate on one transaction at a time?
1920-1945: The Consumption Period
This age experienced a revolution in distribution and sales preparation. Before this time, the emphasis was on helping salespeople to identify and close one transaction at a time. Sales teams soon discovered that strategies based on the previous age created several problems.
Teams had trouble expanding their efforts to meet the needs of more people. So, the emphasis was now put on generating sales transactions in a more systematic way. Group leaders and sales coaches had developed new methods of educating sales representatives to build familiarity and recognition of service and products.
In this period, many of the words that we are using today were coined: area, canvassing, sales team, target, and selling cycle. Up until then, most salespeople have trained on the job using self-directed test and trial and error methods or simply by looking at others. Sales managers continued to use written tools like books to teach their sales teams.
The curriculum had been developed to help sales people understand the advantages and benefits of the products, how to deliver it efficiently, and how to close sales, firmly. Comprehensive sales strategies were centered on the importance of innovative product presentations and the practice of overcoming and resolving objections. During this era, the expansion of credit opened up opportunities for explosive sales growth. Here are the