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Leadership is Not About “Monitoring”

Leadership is Not About “Monitoring”

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May 31, 2019 By Dave Brock

Too often when I speak to sales managers, they focus on “monitoring” their sales people. They constantly focus on:

  • Where they are on MTD, QTD, YTD numbers?
  • Do their pipelines have the right volume/velocity of opportunities?
  • Are the sales people hitting their goals on prospecting calls, customer meetings, and so forth?
  • Are they keeping CRM and other systems updated?
  • …and on and on.

When they see someone not hitting those goals or not “complying” with the standards, they take corrective action, which usually is manifested by:

  • You aren’t hitting your numbers, you need to get going!
  • You need more deals in your pipeline!
  • You need to up your prospecting calls hitting our daily call goals!
  • You need to keep CRM updated! If it isn’t in CRM, it isn’t real!
  • …and on and on.

Monitoring provides no value to anyone. Technology provides a better job of monitoring than most managers can. Tools can tell me that I’m behind on certain commitments, that I haven’t paid attention to certain opportunities for a while, that my pipeline velocity is slowing down, that I have a meeting in 30 minutes.

We don’t need managers wasting their time on monitoring and wasting sales people’s time on telling them what most tools are already telling them.

Monitoring, in this fashion, provides no value to anyone! Monitoring changes nothing! Yet too often, this is the behavior we see managers focusing on.

The manager’s job is to maximize the performance of every person on their team and of the team as a whole. It goes beyond monitoring to understanding what’s happening, why, what’s standing in the way of people achieving their goals. The job is to coach sales people, helping them understand how they are performing, helping them learn what, why and how they might change to improve performance.

Get out from behind your computer screens and reports. Talk to your people, understand where they need help, help them learn how to be better. Visit customers with them, understand barriers and roadblocks to their performance and remove them.

You are most impactful when you help them learn how to improve their performance and achieve their goals.

Filed Under: Leadership, People Skills Tagged With: Leadership, Managing Employees, Productivity, Sales

Source: Partners in Excellence

Dave Brock

Dave Brock

Dave Brock is the founder of Partners in EXCELLENCE, a consulting and services company helping to improve the effectiveness of business professionals with strategy development, organizational planning, and implementation. Dave has spent his career working for and with high performance organizations, ranging from the Fortune 25 to startups, including companies such as IBM, HP, Nokia, AT&T, Microsoft, General Electric, and many, many more. The work Dave does with business strategies is closely tied to personal effectiveness of the people in the organization. As a result, Dave is deeply involved in the development of a number of training and coaching programs.

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