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Do You Trust Your People To Solve Problems?

Partners in Excellence

Continuing my series on applying lean/agile manufacturing principles to selling, I was reminded by Charles Green and Dave Jackson about an important aspect of these principles that is never mentioned by those promoting lean/agile in our sales assembly lines. This represents waste, lost productivity, and continued low performance.

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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

Yet, sellers are still focused on being purveyors of the same product information that buyers have already studied on the web. Customers and sellers have become widgets moving along the sales manufacturing line, losing the humanity, failing to build trust and confidence the buyers crave.

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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

Partners in Excellence

We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. We differentiate our offerings through nuances of product differences, hoping we can make one feature/function important to the customer, but mostly we win through pricing. Rather than becoming value creators, we are becoming order takers.

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On Layoffs….

Partners in Excellence

Customers have become depersonalized widgets that we move along our selling assembly lines. We don’t seem to recognize that while people are working longer hours, productivity is declining. We provide buses equipped with WiFi so they can be productive on the commute.

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The Future Of Work Is About More Than Work!

Partners in Excellence

” We look at, how do we reduce onboarding time, how do we maximize productivity during that time? We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assembly lines of the past. them passing the work to the next person in the knowledge worker assembly line. The problem is at the top!

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Sales Organization Structures for Success: Models, Tips, and Best Practices

Highspot

How you organize your sales team will be determined by the regions you serve, the number of products and services you offer, the size of your sales team, and the size and industry of your customers. Your sales organization is in charge of generating revenue for your business by convincing buyers to purchase a product or service.

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

Make prospecting videos, follow-ups, product demos, and other communications that drive virtual selling. The second aspect of the predictive revenue model is the sales assembly line or seller specialization or sales handoffs , primarily the AE/CSM split. Try Vidyard for free by signing up at Vidyard.com/free.