Good evening, my friends.
Are you a professional salesperson? Do you know one?
These affirmations are for sales professionals determined to win the mindset game. Find more confidence and success by listening to these regularly.
Happy selling!
Ray
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The line between confidence and cockiness in sales is a fine one. No one else is going to make or exceed quota for you. You have be your own advocate, your best friend, and your biggest cheerleader.
This affirmation boldly declares that the best salesperson wins an you are the best salesperson.
As with all affirmations, use regularly for best results. The affirmation is repeated eight times each in the first and second-person with interlacing phrase sales success.
Wherever you are on your journey, remember you are awesome!
Ray
Over many years in sales, I’ve seen it time and again. Sales leaders want to reward their top performers. This is a great impulse and one you should follow. However, often the method of reward is to make the great sales maker a sales manager. The thinking, and it’s logical, is that if I can have this high-performer infuse a whole team with what he or she does, my sales will rocket.
Here’s the challenge. Great sales makers don’t automatically make great sales managers. In fact, often it’s your middle-of-road, reliable, competent sales rep who would make the best manager. Why?
People who perform at a high level in any area of life are often “naturals.” Look at LeBron James, Steph Curry, or Kevin Durant. These guys amaze because they can simply do things their teammates cannot do with any amount of practice or determination. They have natural gifts that can’t be taught, not even by them.
This is why sports lore is filled with the great player who was not a successful coach. The great coaches are typically the people who were reliable, competent players who really had to work at their craft. That meant they couldn’t “just do” things like the great players. They had to break things down into their component parts and work hard on those elements. That’s the kind of player that makes a great coach.
Sales is very much like sports. Your highest performers are naturals too. They do things naturally that you coach and teach and struggle to get your other reps to do. Now you make that top sales rep a manager. He or she doesn’t understand what it really means to have to work at all the small things – and may not even realize what all those small things are or how to teach them.
Coaching is a huge part of sales management. The top performer can easily become frustrated that his or her team can’t do things that came natural to them. His or team can become frustrated because they aren’t getting the stripped down coaching they need to succeed. It all can – and often does – add up to failure.
Am I saying never promote your top sales makers to manager? No, I never say never. I’m simply saying this is why it often doesn’t work and what you should consider before you do it.
Happy Selling!
Ray
Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot. He’s spent more than 20 years in sales and sales training and more than 25 years studying human motivation. Read more sales articles by Ray.
He is also the author of the Anunnaki Awakening speculative fiction series. Book 1 – Revelation – was released in 2015. Book 2 – Revolution – is due out in 2017.
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