Sales managers have two choices. It's still the first quarter of the year and you can improve your success and go flying past your targets in this very year by choosing one of them. The first option is as follows:
- Convince your team to reach out to more people than they did last year
- Make incremental improvements to your skills as a manager
- Tell your people to reach out to customers who haven't done business with you in over a year
- Spend more time with your people understanding their needs and motivations
- Reduce time-wasting activities
- Read two sales management blog articles per week (make sure this is one of them!)
- Look for ways to help each of your people improve skills and remove success barriers
- Create a no-excuse culture of responsibility
- Reexamine why do what you do and re-associate to it to motivate yourself
- Develop your coaching skills
- Work on holding your people accountable
- Make recruiting a core competency and upgrade the bottom of your team
If you do all that, you will have a better year than last year. You'll be turning your amp all the way up to 10, the highest number on the dial.
But you have another choice, don't you? Buy a new amp that goes to 11. Get excited to have the best year of your entire career. Choose to be legendary. Make your number one goal to be the very best. The best manager. The best coach. The best motivator. The one boss that everyone mentions during an interview that had the most influence on their career and their success. The most outstanding sales manager you can be - just that much better than great.
Turn your game all the way up to 11. Commit to a year of making your own improvement in your role a top priority so your team will get the most from you, perform at their best, and sail past their numbers like it was easy, almost as if they had been sandbagging. Decide once and for all that you going to stop dabbling, stop trying, and stop merely thinking about getting the training you deserve and coming to the renowned Kurlan Sales Leadership Intensive on March 19th and 20th, and actually do it!
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