The nature of selling has changed. Sales organizations are being reinvented to better address the needs of the changing marketplace. Six critical drivers of change have been identified in reinventing sales organizations so they can compete successfully in today’s selling environment:
1. Building long-term relationships with customers. This includes assessing customer value and focusing on high-priority customers.
2. Creating sales organizational structures that are more nimble and adaptable to the needs of different customer groups. Leadership 2.1 shows how, by providing clarity of vision and process, the “new IBM” is freeing up its worldwide sales organization to become more flexible.
3. Gaining greater job ownership and commitment from salespeople. This can accomplished by removing functional barriers within the organization and by leveraging the team experience.
4. Shifting sales management style commanding to coaching. Or, put another way, today’s sales managers must create an environment that allows salespeople to use their talents and abilities to successfully secure, build, and maintain relationships with profitable customers. While item 3 implies that in the past, organizational structure was a common stumbling block to salesperson success, item 4 recognizes that sales managers themselves also are often guilty of blocking successful relationship selling. For selling to change, management of salespeople must also change accordingly.
5. Leveraging available technology for sales success. Clearly, salespeople today have more types of technological tools at their disposal than ever before. The sales organizations that make the best use of technology will have a strong competitive edge over others.
6. Better integrating salesperson performance evaluation. A real weakness of many sales organizations in the past was in how they evaluated and ultimately rewarded their salespeople. The move from transactional selling to relationship selling, coupled with the use of selling teams and a more coaching style of management, necessitates rethinking the performance evaluation and reward process for sales organizations. In Chapters 12 and 13, this critical topic will be discussed in the context of developing a more seamless performance management system that incorporates the full range of activities and outcomes relevant within sales jobs today.
The nature of selling has changed. Sales organizations are being reinvented to better address the needs of the changing marketplace. Six critical drivers of change have been identified in reinventing sales organizations so they can compete successfully in today’s selling environment:
1. Building long-term relationships with customers. This includes assessing customer value and focusing on high-priority customers.
2. Creating sales organizational structures that are more nimble and adaptable to the needs of different customer groups. Leadership 2.1 shows how, by providing clarity of vision and process, the “new IBM” is freeing up its worldwide sales organization to become more flexible.
3. Gaining greater job ownership and commitment from salespeople. This can accomplished by removing functional barriers within the organization and by leveraging the team experience.
4. Shifting sales management style commanding to coaching. Or, put another way, today’s sales managers must create an environment that allows salespeople to use their talents and abilities to successfully secure, build, and maintain relationships with profitable customers. While item 3 implies that in the past, organizational structure was a common stumbling block to salesperson success, item 4 recognizes that sales managers themselves also are often guilty of blocking successful relationship selling. For selling to change, management of salespeople must also change accordingly.
5. Leveraging available technology for sales success. Clearly, salespeople today have more types of technological tools at their disposal than ever before. The sales organizations that make the best use of technology will have a strong competitive edge over others.
6. Better integrating salesperson performance evaluation. A real weakness of many sales organizations in the past was in how they evaluated and ultimately rewarded their salespeople. The move from transactional selling to relationship selling, coupled with the use of selling teams and a more coaching style of management, necessitates rethinking the performance evaluation and reward process for sales organizations. In Chapters 12 and 13, this critical topic will be discussed in the context of developing a more seamless performance management system that incorporates the full range of activities and outcomes relevant within sales jobs today.
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