Skill + Do
"Manage your performance, not your results" is the simplest and most powerful sales mantra. Focus on your actions and behaviors, and the results will come. Skills drive your actions and behaviors.
Skills are the building blocks for success in sales. If skills don’t develop and grow, there won’t be a long string of big commission checks that come in year after year. Sellers who are constantly working on their skills are those who get the biggest checks. Full stop.
Unfortunately, most managers and companies today define performance solely by the revenue they produce. That’s unfortunate because that thinking ignores the foundations of exactly what drives the revenue: your consistent application of skills and best practice actions! Those are what create the commission events.
The TOP 10% understand that performance is built through skill development and professional evolution. In that light, don’t be afraid to look yourself in the mirror and appraise your performance…at any stage of your career. (Yes, do it even when you think you don’t need to do it anymore.)
Don’t appraise your year solely based on revenue production; add skill growth to your annual performance appraisal.
It’s easy to stack up the numbers and say, "…well, I was up 13% this quarter YOY, and last quarter I was up 8%." But a myopic perspective only on your revenue numbers will get you mixed up on what’s truly important…skills.
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Tomorrow - November 14
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I'd love to meet your friend, YES
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Today - November 13
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"Why did you get bought?"
Understanding why your buyers buy is one of the more challenging yet fulfilling parts of being a sales pro. Every buyer and sale is different; learning all you can to help for the next time is key.
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November 12
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Two sellers walk into a bar
Get your manager engaged in your goal-setting protocol and you’ll have a higher likelihood of learning about your misses and growing your skills.
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November 11
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Boost your selling with integrity
Some may argue that integrity is innate…after all, your parents are wonderful and taught you well. But there’s pressure in today’s sales game that constantly challenges your integrity.
"Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable." John Wooden
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