Implementing Your Sales Strategy Matters
Our organizational alignment research found that implementing your sales strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low growth companies. If your sales strategy is not being consistently implemented across your organization, this article is for you.
The Sales Leadership Strategy Scenario
The sales strategy session or sales kickoff is over and now your sales team must go make it happen. Hopefully you have invested the time and effort to distill your sales strategy into a clear plan that includes the six sales strategy components that matter most:
Monitoring If Your Sales Strategy is Working
Congratulations. A great and necessary start. For a it to make a true difference, however, strategy must be properly executed.
All too often a sales team seems eager after kickoff, but two quarters later, you see little change in the way they are behaving and no clear signs that you will hit your agreed upon sales targets. Now the question becomes – is your sales strategy working?
Three Ways to Test If Your Sales Strategy Is On Track
One of the easiest and most efficient ways to find out is to select a few of your sales folks, perhaps a couple of your sales stars, two of your lower performers, two turning in an average performance, and an influential sales manager. Then follow these steps to test if your sales strategy is really doing what you hoped it would do.
Map out the sales processes you want them to follow and make sure they have the necessary business sales skills and resources to carry out each step. Identify any barriers to sales success and create sales action plans to remove them as quickly as possible.
The Bottom Line
It takes unrelenting clarity, focus, and sales leadership to not join the almost 9 out of 10 companies that don’t move their strategic plans from the Board Room to the field. Don’t leave your sales force in a state of confusion or misalignment. Give your sales team clear direction, the ability to carry out the new sales plan, and ongoing support and cultural accountability to make it happen.
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