It doesn’t hurt when you hit your bottom line or increase your revenue as a result of sales, but how do you get your employees to that level? How do you manage to increase their sales and the company’s overall profit? It only takes seven highly effective steps.
Coaching is much more effective when driving employee performance, especially inside sales and customer service personnel. Management is about telling people what to do; whereas, coaching is about asking and understanding why performance levels are the way they are.
However, it takes more than just one coaching session to motivate and teach employees. Managers have to provide a sustainable learning environment or employee performance will severely dwindle. Think about how much training it takes to become a pro-athlete; well that is how it works with sales. Constant coaching and learning are vital to success.
- 55% of employees listed lack of post training implementation as one of the top weaknesses of sales training. (Sales Performance International)
- Participants in sales training forget half of what is taught within 5 weeks. (Sales Performance International)
- ROI on training quadruples from 22% to 88% when employees receive in-field coaching and reinforcement. (Ventana Research)
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