Evaluating your sales team (your people, in the context of your sales systems, processes and strategies) is the most powerful and cost-effective thing you can do.
We expect our analysis to answer four critical questions:
- Why aren't we more effective?
- How much more effective can we be?
- What will it take to accomplish that?
- How long will it take to accomplish that?
Here's some of what else you can learn from an evaluation:
- How Does Sales Leadership Impact Our Sales Team?
- What Are Our Current Sales Capabilities?
- How Motivated Are Our Salespeople and How Are They Motivated?
- Why Aren't We Generating More New Business?
- Are We Reaching the Actual Decision Makers?
- Why Isn't Our Sales Cycle Shorter?
- Are We Selling Consultatively?
- Are We Selling on Price and Who Can Become a Value Seller?
- Is Our Value Proposition Consistent?
- Can We Close More Sales?
- Do Our Systems and Processes Support a High Performance Sales Organization?
- Are We Being Consistent with Our Sales Process?
- How Well Are Our Sales Leadership Strategies Aligned?
- Do We Need to Change Our Selection Criteria?
- Is Our Ramp-Up of New Salespeople Fast Enough?
- Can We Improve Our Pipeline and Forecasting Accuracy?
- Can We Improve Our Sales Culture?
- Who Can Become More Effective in Their Roles?
- What Are the Short-term Priorities for Accelerated Growth?
I am a huge advocate of the principle that you need to know yourself and the people you work with in order to manage them effectively. This is why I had my sales team evaluated using Objective Management Group’s sales team evaluation. I thought the comprehensive analysis was incredibly valuable because it analyzed the specific sales capabilities of each individual, in the context of their role in the sales organization. I was not aware of the hidden weaknesses that were interfering with their sales success, and now that I have worked on mine and know those of my people, I can be much more helpful to them.
Charles Assaf
CEO, Orsyp
