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  • Sales Strategy and Leadership Sales Leadership Diploma Programme Ed Peelen
  • Objective Kick off: Start formulating your sales agenda (for this program): Formulate the strategic sales challenge Explore type of leadership this requires from sales
  • Your sales challenge What was different five years ago? What challenges you now? What will be different in five years from now?
  • A rapidly changing landscape Commodization of products; focus on solutions Professionalization of purchasing Focus on core suppliers Demand partnership, act transactional Ask for solutions, buy commodities Competitive pressure Economic crisis Disruptive business models
  • Changing landscape - customer requirements Be personally accountable for our desired results Understand our business Be on our side Design the right applications Be easily accessible Solve our problems Be creative in responding to our needs Source: The Chally World Class Sales Excellence Report
  • Changing landscape - corporate requirements Marketing vacuum Increased sales productivity Sales expenditures 10% of sales Largest commercial cost component Reshaping and repositioning traditional functions Away from silos, bureaucracy, inward focus Organizing around core processes, f.e.: customer, supply, strategic integration (Kraft) Do you recognize these changes in your organization?
  • Imperatives for the strategic sales organization Strategic sales organization Involvement Putting sales back into strategy Intelligence Customer knowledge Integration Getting your act around customer valueInternal marketing Selling customer to company Infrastructure Alligning sales processes with business
  • Imperatives for the strategic sales organization Strategic sales organization Involvement Putting sales back into strategy Intelligence Customer knowledge Integration Getting your act around customer valueInternal marketing Selling customer to company Infrastructure Alligning sales processes with business International Inspiration Integrity Influence
  • Matching the buyers perspective 9 Customer focus? Changes? One customer, more positions Multi channel ? Capabilities? How to recognize? Value propositions?
  • Differentiate - Sales competences
  • Differentiate allocate resources
  • Bridging the leadership gap The voice of the customer Strategic dialogue Changing the infrastructure (alignment) From outcome based models towards behaviour based models (inputs from sales what customers want) Internal promotion
  • Leadership vs management The myths The realities Role of the manager Authority Interdependency Source of power Formal authortiy Everything else Desired outcome Control Commitment Managerial focus Managing one-on- one Leading them Key challenge Smooth operation Make changes that all the team to perform better
  • Leadership How would you approach this challenge?
  • The promotor Entrepreneurial skills Opportunity driven Experiments Incremental, take new paths step by step Will beg, borrow, steal resources from wherever they can be found Flat structures, open communication Decentralized decision making The trustee Manages existing resources as efficiently as possible Moves slow on opportunities, want guarantees before action Analytical, conservative Feels uncomfortable to borrow, share or temporarily use resources Seeks control Resource control reflect status and influence Leadership styles
  • Leadership Sales executive being distant from the company How to live up to your responsibilities? Participation in related activities Playing a role in a company top team
  • Leadership Managing/ leading in a paradoxal context? How would you approach this challenge?
  • Managing/leading in a paradoxal context Critical success factors Impact the capacity to add value Intimacy close, trusted, mutual relation Vision compelling picture of what can be achieved Role model People practices people with collaborative attitudes and abilities Informal networks communities of practice Reward potential mostly a barrier Leadership external