Training: How To Build a Sales Team

Learn how to build a sales team that executes with precision – – effectively, efficiently, and predictably

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Our Sales Process Training Will Show You “How To”…

Sales Strategy

  1. Determine when to build a sales team
  2. Cover start-up costs while hiring salespeople and/or sales managers
  3. Set revenue, sales pipeline activity, sales productivity, and sales staffing levels
  4. Create an accurate sales forecast
  5. Define the steps that should be taken to build a sales team
  6. Select the right sales team organization structure and job descriptions
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Sales Execution

  1. Approach sales calls, including what messaging, presentation, and hand-outs to use with buyers
  2. Generate qualified leads
  3. Schedule sales appointments that actually complete
  4. Select the right pricing, proposal, and discount model
  5. Hire the right salespeople and manager
  6. Onboard new salespeople without wasting time, money, and morale
  7. Compensate sale people

Sales Evaluation

  1. What measures should we track
  2. How should we track sales activities,  sales opportunities, and sales
  3. What are the best way to analyze a sales team, managers, and people
  4. What type of sales reporting should we be looking at
  5. How do you pinpoint and prioritize sales process improvements
Why Do New Sales Teams Fail?
  1. Time pressure to generate immediate revenue results causes them to cut corners
  2. Inability to quickly transfer product, service, pricing and other technical knowledge to sales managers and people
  3. Management lacks expertise in sales and sales management methods, techniques and tools
  4. Unrealistic expectations that sales managers can: make sales calls, hire and manage salespeople, deploy sales technology, manage office space, and build sales strategy and forecasts
  5. Incomplete and/or conflicting procedures, information, policies, and guidelines
  6. Inability to sift through “the blizzard” of expert advice from key advisers i.e. investors, bankers, accountants, lawyers, family, and friends

We Use The Chief Sales Leader Framework™

To show business leaders and sales managers how to build the three (3) strategic and twelve (12) operating sales processes that are required for a sales team to execute with precision – – effectively, efficiently, and predictably

The Chief Sales Leader Framework™
The Chief Sales Leader Road Map™
Sales Workflow

This Program Can Be Delivered Via:

  1. Webinar
  2. Two-hour Workshop Overview
  3. Four-hour Workshop Covering The Basics
  4. One-day Workshop
  5. Monthly Workshop Series
  6. Quarterly Workshop Series

Training: How To Build a Sales Team

Attendee’s Will:
  1. Learn best practices, procedures, and policies
  2. Learn about sales technology
  3. Learn how to measure a sales team and people
  4. Review real-life examples from multiple industries
  5. Share peer experiences
  6. Take away step-by-step instructions and sample templates
Program Agenda
Optional Pre-Program Self Assessment to gauge each attendees level of sales and sales management knowledge, skills, experience and mindset
Module 1 – Framework for Building a Sales Team to provide attendees with context on the proper sequence for installing the sales processes, technology, people and culture that is required to build sustainable revenue growth year-after-year without wasting time, money and morale

Module 2 – Why You Should Start At The Sales Call and Work Backwards because that is where the buyer resides, we can instantly learn if our messaging and value proposition is working, and time-saving lessons are learned for building the three (3) strategic and twelve (12) operating process that is required for a sales team to execute with precision – – effectively, efficiently, and predictably

Module 3 – Sales Approach and Tools to enable buyers to match their wants and needs to your solutions quickly to turn on the flow of revenue including the methodology and tools to: generate leads, schedule sales call appointments, execute sales calls and close deals, onboard new customers, renew and up-sell existing customers, and cross-sell existing customers

Module 4 – Hiring and Onboarding The Right Sales Managers and People including finding, screening, interviewing, making job offers and career development planning.  We will also cover how to use college interns working toward professional selling degrees to energize your sales team for 25% of the cost of traditional hiring methods

Module 5 – Sales Planning & Forecasting to focus limited time, money and resources through accurate sales and market strategy, forecasting, budgeting
Module 6 – Sales Organization Design to select sales channels, territory design, job design and job descriptions

Module 7 – Sales Management Approach including when and how to: manage team meetings, compensate, coach, evaluate, train and develop business development, account management, and customer service people; including succession planning

Module 8 – Sales Culture and Mindset to lay the foundation for a sales team that mirrors the: values, mindset, behaviors, and decision-making approach of company leaders

Module 9 – Sales Evaluation to measure, analyze, and report on sales activities, sales opportunities, and revenue results
Module 10 – Sales Process Improvement to conduct gap analysis, problem solving, prioritizing improvements, action planning, reporting on improvements, and improvement meeting management
Optional – Post Program Personal Coaching to personalize an approach to implementing the methods, techniques and tools learned during the program
Who Is The Program Instructor?

An accomplished Chief Sales Leader™ with global experience connecting, mentoring and enabling sales teams to execute with precision – – effectively, efficiently, and predictably

Rick Longenecker Biography

Rick Longenecker
Rick shows business leaders “how to” enable sales teams to execute with precision – – effectively, efficiently, and predictably – – based on his global experience:
  1. Serving in C-level roles in both publicly-traded and privately-held companies
  2. Building, restructuring, improving and merging sales teams
  3. Consulting in over thirty industries
  4. Managing sales teams in both monopoly-regulated and non-regulated environments
  5. Leading sales teams in the Fortune 500, middle market, small business and in start-ups
  6. Hiring, coaching and mentoring thousands of sales leaders, managers, and people
  7. Selling both products and services
  8. Networking with thousands of people around the world
  9. Living in Metro New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Metro Detroit
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