How to Recognize Your True Sales Performance Competencies
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How to Identify Your True Sales Performance Competencies
Overview
Instead of chasing quotas, focus on understanding your core sales competencies to boost your success. Here, we explore three essential competencies that can significantly improve your sales performance and simplify your end-of-month evaluations.
Understanding Core Competencies
Core competencies are key elements in the sales process that have a direct impact on your success. These are both manageable and measurable, and sales professionals can be trained to excel in these areas. Unfortunately, many sales teams get distracted by non-essential activities or complex systems, overlooking what truly matters.
Without a strong foundation in these competencies, sales results often fall short due to various distractions and roadblocks.
Essential Sales Competencies
Consider the following common tasks in the sales cycle. Which are truly vital to your success?
- Closing Sales
- Developing Prospect Lists
- Setting Appointments
- Running First Appointments
- Moving Qualified Prospects through the Sales Pipeline
- Post-Sale Marketing
- Developing Referrals
- Reporting and Paperwork
- Documenting Testimonials
While many are important, not all are core sales competencies. For example, requesting referrals and collecting testimonials are useful, but your main success depends on mastering core competencies.
Identifying True Sales Competencies
To determine if an activity is a core sales competency, consider if it is directly linked to revenue?"our ultimate success measure.
Key Questions to Ask:
- Is it essential to the sales mission?
Focus on separating necessary daily tasks from key competencies. Think of a golfer: is their core competency the ball or the swing?
- Can it be measured easily?
Effective competencies should be measurable with simple tools like a pencil and paper. For instance, track your conversation-to-appointment ratio to determine effectiveness.
- Can you set realistic performance benchmarks tied to revenue goals?
Once you've identified key competencies like converting conversations to appointments or closing sales, set benchmarks to strive towards. This allows for measuring success against clear objectives.
Setting Performance Benchmarks:
Suppose you’ve pinpointed essential competencies like conversion ratios and closing abilities. Use these to set benchmarks, incorporating average revenue per sale, monthly targets, and weekly activities to achieve them.
For example, a sales manager might determine that to meet a $25,000 monthly revenue target, each rep needs about seven new appointments weekly, based on calculated ratios.
Effective Training and Support
Sales training should be ongoing, with focused learning around each core competency. It requires organizational commitment and structures that support continuous improvement and application.
Timely training isn’t a one-off seminar but involves setting short-term objectives, measuring progress, and working closely with trainers for sustained support. When training focuses on one competency at a time, benchmarks are more likely to be met.
A Golf Analogy
A novice golfer might adjust their stance to compensate for a slice, while a skilled golfer addresses the swing’s core aspects. Similarly, in sales, focus on training and measuring core competencies instead of merely adjusting peripheral activities.
By identifying, training, and measuring sales performance competencies, you can significantly enhance sales results without merely chasing quotas.
You can find the original non-AI version of this article here: How to Recognize Your True Sales Performance Competencies.
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