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“The Joy Of Selling…,” Have We Lost It?

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” Whether it’s bad prospecting, bad Social Channel interactions, bad selling, weak sales management, ineffective training, and so forth. I’ve written so much on where we are underperforming our potential as sales professionals, or undeserving out customers. I struggled a moment.

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Seller Engagement, Are We Asking Ourselves The Right Questions?

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” We see people (even experts) posing questions like, “How do we reduce our dependency on field sales–or sellers of all types?” ” Others revel in the fact that customers want to minimize seller engagement, preferring digital buying. 2018 Sales Management Critical Issues, Part 1.

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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

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Too many organizations seem so focused on their own efficiency, mechanizing our process, and transactionalizing our engagement strategies. We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. In some ways, sales leaders revel in this. At the same time, we see data that is alarming.

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The “Adrenalin Rush” Of Crises

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I revel in a crisis, I’m challenged and excited about tough problems. We have to identify the problems, fix them, get aggressive, disciplined execution in place, get the right people in place, get the right strategies, and build a strong cadence around execution and innovation.

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Misunderstanding Comp

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In fact, we should revel when our people are into their overattainment accelerators–because it means they are blowing past their quotas and over achieving. There is no right answer, these designs vary based on your strategies for what the sales people need to do, and how we motivate them to achieve (overachieve) their goals.

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Investing In The Future Of Selling

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It was a fascinating conversation about sales management and the role of managers in developing their people. Recently, Martyn Lewis and I were invited to participate in a session with Barry Erickson ‘s students at the Michael Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.

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Opportunity Math……

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I think, “Why do we revel in achieving our quotas and scaling goals, when we could be doing so much more?” But beyond this, we are seeing organizations re imagining their digital engagement strategies, or leveraging deep expertise on social, event, conference and other channels. We are underperforming the potential.