How Focus Helps Sales Management Effectiveness
In a strong economy just showing up to play is enough to achieve your sales objectives. In today’s economic environment sales leaders are facing sales force downsizing and poor sales rep morale. Sales reps are frustrated by longer sales cycles, dropping demand, unrealistic quotas, concerns about declining income and losing their jobs.
The key to success is Focus, Focus, and Focus. As the leader of your sales organization you should ask yourself 1. Am I focused? 2. What is Focused Leadership? and 3. Why is focus so important to my success?
Ask yourself the following questions to ascertain your FOCUS factor.
Have you established your 2-3 critical success factors (CSFs) that will help you achieve your objectives?
Have you determined the key activities that will help you achieve your CSFs?
Have you communicated the key activities to your sales team?
Does each and every one of your sales people know what the key activities are?
Have they incorporated these key activities into their daily plans?
Are your sales managers coaching the reps on these key activities?
Are the sales reps accountable to delivering on these key activities?
If you have answered “YES” to a majority of these questions, then you’re Focused! Congratulations you will thrive. Feel free to share what you are doing. Send me an email.
If you answered “NO” to more than 2 questions keep reading.
Focused Sales Leadership is about determining, communicating and inspiring your sales to apply all their energy on the critical success factors/activities.
Many of your competitors have surveyed the market and may have come up with similar strategies. The differentiating factor between surviving these difficult times and getting your butt kicked relates to how well your sales team executes. Successful sales execution is about ensuring that each and every one of your sales reps clearly understands their marching orders (CSF). It is imperative that your front line sales managers keep their sales teams focused on executing the critical success activities.
If you would like to find out more about how The Focus Factor can benefit your organization coming soon at http://www.starresults.com
Focused on your success,
Steven Rosen, MBA
Sales Management Expert
The key to success is Focus, Focus, and Focus. As the leader of your sales organization you should ask yourself 1. Am I focused? 2. What is Focused Leadership? and 3. Why is focus so important to my success?
Ask yourself the following questions to ascertain your FOCUS factor.
Have you established your 2-3 critical success factors (CSFs) that will help you achieve your objectives?
Have you determined the key activities that will help you achieve your CSFs?
Have you communicated the key activities to your sales team?
Does each and every one of your sales people know what the key activities are?
Have they incorporated these key activities into their daily plans?
Are your sales managers coaching the reps on these key activities?
Are the sales reps accountable to delivering on these key activities?
If you have answered “YES” to a majority of these questions, then you’re Focused! Congratulations you will thrive. Feel free to share what you are doing. Send me an email.
If you answered “NO” to more than 2 questions keep reading.
Focused Sales Leadership is about determining, communicating and inspiring your sales to apply all their energy on the critical success factors/activities.
Many of your competitors have surveyed the market and may have come up with similar strategies. The differentiating factor between surviving these difficult times and getting your butt kicked relates to how well your sales team executes. Successful sales execution is about ensuring that each and every one of your sales reps clearly understands their marching orders (CSF). It is imperative that your front line sales managers keep their sales teams focused on executing the critical success activities.
If you would like to find out more about how The Focus Factor can benefit your organization coming soon at http://www.starresults.com
Focused on your success,
Steven Rosen, MBA
Sales Management Expert
Tags: focus, management, sales
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Comment by Steven Rosen on June 21, 2009 at 5:28pm - Thanks Peter. Who is the book by?
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Comment by Peter Michie on June 21, 2009 at 2:29am -
Dear Steve
I totally agee - As an sales manager, I have personally turned around the sales results of 6 organizations, and the first step in each case was a pure management process that I call: "Focus on your Key Controllables", which is now a book.
Best regards, Peter M
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