Sales Managers – The most valuable success behavior for salespeople
After accumulating the experience of literally hundreds of 1:1 meetings and deal reviews with Account Executives over the past 13 years as a sales leader, I think I have finally figured out the single most important predictor of success – Knowing exactly what is going to be done in order to close a deal. I know this sounds like a trite truism, but what I am talking about is the quality of the close plan (often recorded as ‘next steps’) for a given opportunity.
There is a tonne we can focus on in terms of opportunity qualification and strategy, but the biggest thing to move the needle I have found is the existence of a clearly defined close plan.
I have found 3 consistent behaviors during deal reviews:
The detail of what to look for is below and my call to action is as follows:
- Focus on the time-bound, specific…
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