Training program Sales Management
Duration: 2 days consecutive
Timing: 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Objectives:
After the course participants will be able to:
- Use coaching and counselling techniques when appropriate
- Describe the role of a sales manager
- Describe and use both management and leadership behaviour
- Use techniques for market research
- Explain Account Management and install account management systems
- Set up a sales plan and forecast, calendarised and with 90 day milestones
- Develop action plans to reach sales goals
- Describe and use techniques for team building
- Run sales meetings effectively
- Apply and teach on performance management elements such as "goal setting, work and goal review and performance appraisal"
- Explain Territory Management and install territory management in a sales team
- Develop an effective information flow from and to the sales force
- Recruit new sales team members effectively
Indicative Program:
Day 1:
· Introduction:
§ Logistics
§ Objectives
§ Experience
§ Table team formation
· Review of the principles of coaching
· Role of the sales manager
· Management versus Leadership
· Market potential analysis, trends, changes
· Grouping customers A, B. C accounts
· Account management systems
· Sales plan, quarterly goals, monthly goals, critical closes
· Action planning and follow-up
· Feedback day 1 and wrap up
Day 2:
· Review of day 1
· What makes a real team?
· Effective sales meetings
· Performance management:
§ Results needed, setting standards: sales $, time, expenses, quality
§ Knowledge required
§ Skills definition
§ Activity management, activity reports, call frequency calculations
· Forecasting results
· Strategies towards the market
· Territory management and route planning
· Communication, what’s relevant and … what not?
· Recruiting new sales people
· Action planning
· Wrap up