“Having a disciplined sales force is its own reward and the key is employing the right sales managers to create it.”

               CSO Insights – 2008

Pivotal Sales Leaders

If you are serious about improving your sales results, start with those people directly responsible for structuring, hiring, managing, and motivating your valuable sales resources.

Are they really leading or simply selling alongside their reps? Transitioning from successful Sales Representative to successful Sale Leader requires dramatically different skills and can continue to be a challenge for even the most seasoned leaders. We often see sales managers engaged in selling activities rather than developing teams and driving behavior. They resort to what used to work as the formula for success rather than truly leading their team.

Over time, most sales leaders learn how to be more

effective through trial and error and observing successful

behavior, but this method of development can take several

years and still does not provide a complete look at what it

takes to have the most successful teams. As a result,

even the most experienced managers may not possess all

the knowledge and skills to be the most effective manager

that they can be.

Pivotal Advisors has researched hundreds of companies

and identified those Sales Success Factors that are

common among the most successful leaders. Our mission

is to provide companies with these factors to make them

Pivotal Sales Leaders.

The Pivotal Sales Leader executes the company’s strategy using an integrated system of people, processes, and measurements combined with leadership competencies that set them apart from the average sales manager.

Over the past 20 years we have witnessed the unbelievable performance that follows these Pivotal Sales Leaders across industry, product, service, and solution complexity.

 

Sales Leaders are the single largest influencer on the

motivation, productivity, and retention of your sales teams.

 

Pivotal Advisors can help you assess your current leaders and create plans for improvement.