The Gateway to Performance Improvement and Business Success

We’ve found that many organizations want results, but when it comes to a high-performance team, gaps in this concept emerge. These gaps include unsuccessful recruiting of sales team members, not being clear about the role and results expected for the position, and not providing the right tools or direction that supports the optimal success of the sales team. While a sales manager can be key to building and sustaining a Performance Sales Team, each team member must have the potential to grow and excel. An effective sales manager will help grow that salesperson and work to release their potential.

When it comes to creating a high-performance sales team, having, adding, or enhancing talent is critical. A high-performance team needs goals, direction, and feedback about how they are doing, progress toward sub goals (milestones, KPIs) and their approach, acumen, volume of work and effort. They may need to split their time up strategically, so a certain portion of their day is geared toward developing new business opportunities and some of their day to expanding existing business. A sales leader/manager should squarely be focused on the development of strong performing sales team members and working closely with them to refine skills and abilities that result in enhanced performance and therefore better results. All salespeople should be highly focused on their goals that align strategically with the organization – the activities required to build a robust, predictable pipeline and have sufficient volumes in both areas that goal achievement is reliable, predictable, and greater than expected. 

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Your Gateway to Performance Improvement and Business Success 

If you’re feeling some pressure to address the success of your business, don’t wait – it doesn’t take more than a brief phone call… 

David is an accomplished and experienced business professional who brings over 40 years of insight to the table. As a business coach, he specializes in helping business owners prioritize their needs. He can help you examine the health of your business and find critical areas which once addressed will result in performance improvement for your business. 

It all starts with a single, free conversation. Call 734-726-5208 today for a free coaching session or contact David. Your success is waiting!

Together Everyone Achieves More (T.E.A.M.)

Last month we addressed Sales Fundamentals and Sales Management, part of the Five Business Dangers series. Continuing our exploration of the ingredients for a successful sales program, we’ll now get specific about developing a high-performance sales team, a necessary element for a highly effective sales-focused organization. 

Creating a High-Performance Sales Team:

Together Everyone Achieves More (T.E.A.M.). What goes into building a great, high performing team? In our series, we have addressed elements that include sales process, messaging, the conversations salespeople have, and sales management. We now turn our attention to a high-performance sales team. Critical elements that must come together include people, talent, execution, and effectiveness – all to achieve a desired result. 

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Your Gateway to Performance Improvement and Business Success 

If you’re feeling some pressure to address the success of your business, don’t wait – it doesn’t take more than a brief phone call… 

David is an accomplished and experienced business professional who brings over 40 years of insight to the table. As a business coach, he specializes in helping business owners prioritize their needs. He can help you examine the health of your business and find critical areas which once addressed will result in performance improvement for your business. 

It all starts with a single, free conversation. Call 734-726-5208 today for a free coaching session or contact David. Your success is waiting!

Do You Need Sales Management Help?

What is your current mindset around sales management?

Thinking of your current sales management situation, read the statements below and ask yourself: are these in place and are they optimized? If your answer is NO to two or more statements, then you would likely benefit from a shift in your sales management solution, mindset, or approach.

• You have a sales manager/leader in place - their primary role is to lead and grow the sales team, coach, and train them, and develop a high performance sales team
• The sales manager meets regularly with the business owner to ensure alignment of sales and organizational strategy
• The sales manager holds salespeople accountable to goals, territory management, and activity levels
• The sales manager meets at least 1x per month 1-2-1 with salespeople for feedback, coaching and support
• The sales manager holds team meetings at least 1x per month

Every sales-focused organization has room for improvement! If you aren’t implementing all the statements above, or only a few, you may need to adjust your mindset or priorities around sales management… it may be time to get some help.

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Your Gateway to Performance Improvement and Business Success

If you’re feeling some pressure to address the success of your business, don’t wait – it doesn’t take more than a brief phone call…

David is an accomplished and experienced business professional who brings over 40 years of insight to the table. As a business coach, he specializes in helping business owners prioritize their needs. He can help you examine the health of your business and find critical areas which once addressed will result in performance improvement for your business.

It all starts with a single, free conversation. Call 734-726-5208 today for a free coaching session or contact David. Your success is waiting!

High Performing Sales for Your Business

Have you struggled in the past to develop the tools your business needs to thrive?

Are you ready to build a high performing sales team with a solid sales management strategy?

Business leaders and owners understand that more focus is needed on sales efforts in their organization but aren’t sure exactly how to get started, or how to drive positive change when it comes to their sales efforts.

Sales Fundamentals:

Consider the following with your sales team to ensure you’re implementing these sales fundamentals:

• A complete Sales Story (Power Statement) has been developed and is used by all salespeople
• Salespeople speak in terms of client need and challenges, not products and service offering
• Messaging and selling are aligned properly with all marketing efforts
• A clear sales process has been defined for acquiring NEW sales from NEW customers
• The CRM system meets the needs of salespeople and is actively used by all

If you need to refresh the sales message and process to re-energize your sales team, it may be time to seek professional help from a business coach.

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Your Gateway to Performance Improvement and Business Success

If you’re feeling some pressure to address the success of your business, don’t wait – it doesn’t take more than a brief phone call…

David is an accomplished and experienced business professional who brings over 40 years of insight to the table. As a business coach, he specializes in helping business owners prioritize their needs. He can help you examine the health of your business and find critical areas which once addressed will result in performance improvement for your business.

It all starts with a single, free conversation. Call 734-726-5208 today for a free coaching session or contact David. Your success is waiting!
 

Our Four-Pronges Approach to Creating a Sales-Focused Organization

Based on our experience, we have found that the importance of a solid foundation can’t be understated. If the foundation of your home had a large crack, you would be rightfully worried and call a professional to get it taken care of as soon as possible. Why look at business any differently?

We believe in a four-pronged approach to creating a Sales-Focused Organization:

1. Sales fundamentals such as an effective sales process, your power statements with strong messaging, and powerful conversations that combine these fundamentals, to build upon and drive success for you and your team.
2. Effective sales management, meaning the sales leader/manager should squarely be focused on the development of strong performing sales team members and working closely with them to refine skills and abilities that result in enhanced performance and therefore better results.

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Building or enhancing your revenue performance will depend on how well you develop your sales foundations. These will be critical to your sales success. For the specifics of your business, its sales efforts, and their success we’ll need to rely on your candid assessment. So, don’t wait, take stock today and figure out where success or the lack of it is coming from.

In future months we will examine, separately and in depth, Sales Foundations, and each of the other Five Business Dangers. We will also provide a free assessment tool that will highlight specific gaps within the Five Business Dangers.

Your Gateway to Performance Improvement and Business Success

If you’re feeling some pressure to address the success of your business, don’t wait – it doesn’t take more than a brief phone call…

David is an accomplished and experienced business professional who brings over 40 years of insight to the table. As a business coach, he specializes in helping business owners prioritize their needs. He can help you examine the health of your business and find critical areas which once addressed will result in performance improvement for your business.

It all starts with a single, free conversation. Call 734-726-5208 today for a free coaching session or contact David. Your success is waiting!

High Performing Sales for Your Business

As a business owner/leader, are you frustrated that you're not hitting your sales goals and know something needs to change? Business leaders and owners often know that change is needed on the sales front, but they often are not sure exactly where to start, or how to drive positive change to improve sales results.

Let’s face it, Sales and a Company’s Sales Function form some of the most important success elements through the life cycles of any business that begins as a start-up, advances through early-stage growth, second stage growth, on to maturity, sustainability, and beyond.

If you are like many of the businesses we have worked with, you may have experienced the following:

• frustration with not reaching your sales targets
• sales cycles that are longer than expected
• a pipeline that is too weak to make up the difference on too-slow-to-close opportunities
• unsure if you have a good or the right sales process in place
• as a business owner/leader, overwhelmed with both running the business and managing the sales function and/or sales team

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Your Gateway to Performance Improvement and Business Success

If you’re feeling some pressure to address the success of your business, don’t wait – it doesn’t take more than a brief phone call…

David is an accomplished and experienced business professional who brings over 40 years of insight to the table. As a business coach, he specializes in helping business owners prioritize their needs. He can help you examine the health of your business and find critical areas which once addressed will result in performance improvement for your business.

It all starts with a single, free conversation. Call 734-726-5208 today for a free coaching session or contact David. Your success is waiting!
 

How to Set Up a Marketing Plan to Improve Business Performance

A big part of your marketing effort and its success will lie in setting up a marketing plan – one that takes your marketing initiatives and creates specific plans for each marketing element. If you don’t currently have marketing data or marketing KPIs , this would be a good place to start, as data will be critical in assessing what is and is not working. 

As an example, for your website, you will want to optimize it for a set of search terms, and then know the number of visits per day or month, and which pages are viewed by visitors. You will also want to know how many web forms are completed and submitted. In the end, for each of the channels through which you market, you will want to know the number of contacts, phone calls, or leads each produced. This information will determine whether that particular channel is yielding a good marketing ROI (return on investment) or not. With data, you can decide what to add, change or stop. It will be a worthwhile investment of time to figure out where your marketing success or the lack of it is coming from.

Building or enhancing your revenue performance will depend on how well you develop your marketing foundations, messaging, and the channels you use to reach your intended audience. For the specifics of your business, its marketing efforts, and their success we’ll need to rely on your candid assessment. So, don’t wait, take stock today and figure out where success or the lack of it is coming from.

In future months we will examine, separately and in depth, Sales, and each of the other Five Business Dangers. We will also provide a free assessment tool that will highlight specific gaps within the Five Business Dangers.

Read more on our website!

Your Gateway to Performance Improvement and Business Success

If you’re feeling some pressure to address the success of your business, don’t wait – it doesn’t take more than a brief phone call…

David is an accomplished and experienced business professional who brings over 40 years of insight to the table. As a business coach, he specializes in helping business owners prioritize their needs. He can help you examine the health of your business and find critical areas which once addressed will result in performance improvement for your business.

It all starts with a single, free conversation. Call 734-726-5208 today for a free coaching session or contact David through the website. Your success is waiting!