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Extrinsically. She loves winning new clients for the pure enjoyment and self-satisfaction of winning. Extrinsically Motivated Salespeople. Extrinsically motivated sales reps are driven by external rewards, such as money. How to Recognize Extrinsically Motivated Sales Reps. Extrinsics love the external reward.
We regularly observe clients struggling when it comes to getting resumes from quality candidates. Extrinsically motivated salespeople will thrive on a low base and high commission plan while intrinsically motivated salespeople will perform more effectively on a high base with small commission plan. One of the reasons is compensation.
Extrinsic (or external) motivation involves an outside driving force pushing someone to achieve goals. These preferences are independent of intrinsic or extrinsic motivation. They fall into the first group of people I mentioned above (those that don’t seem to need much of a push from their sales managers). External Motivation.
This happened to a client and it had a tremendous ripple effect. The person in the second scenario is not money motivated, also known as not extrinsically motivated. They had already let the former inside salesperson go - now instead of an ineffective salesperson, they have nobody in the role.
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One analysis cited found that incentives targeting extrinsic motivations actually had a negative impact on employees' intrinsic motivation -- and this was particularly true where job tasks are interesting rather than boring. They found little correlation between pay and job satisfaction. More money does not equal more motivation.
By contrast, a typical sales manager would most likely use extrinsic methods of motivation, enforcing and reinforcing the carrot-and-stick approach. This made sure that everyone understood the value the company provided, and could potentially go out, and bring in more clients. They neither bark down commands nor micromanage.
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Were I focused on the inputs, I would have fleshed out the issue tree to include facets of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Finally, our most successful sales development reps were much more likely to call prospects when they saw high client engagement with our prospecting emails.
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