Setting Your Goals In Sales Training
It doesn't matter if you are in an auto sales training, TV and
radio sales, estate sales or time share sales in my
conversations with sales management over the years, I've found
that top producers all have one thing in common: they've taken
the time to sit down and create goals for themselves and
committed to sales training.
Even if during the sales seminar they were skeptical when they
started the process of goal setting and planning, every one of
them has become a true believer.
What Is A True Believer?
A "True Believer" isn't someone who just works sales leads. They
are someone who has been amazed by the incredible power of goal
setting and the power of their own mind to be sold on the sales
job. Every one of them has accomplished far more than they ever
believed possible even if they are in mobile home sales or
business sales they are the ones that move up to the top.
It didn't stop with sales goals or material successes. This
belief runs deep in all areas of their life. They're convinced
of the power of the mind and want share that with the world.
They just seem to live in a world that favors them. There life
has become an extension of their sales attitude.
Are You Happy With Your Current Training?
I defined happiness in training as, The progressive assimilation
of worth while skills that will help me to reach my professional
goals. As a sales trainer, I have been working progressively,
step-by-step toward making permanent lasting impact on every
sales professionals life.
This purpose alone can generate a continuous feeling of success
and achievement within me, but if it doesn't translate in your
personal sales training it is all for not. The sales game has
always been the more people you sell, the more successful you
will be. As a sales professional, you have more control of this
than almost every other profession. Geoff Thomas a sales
associate is found of telling his sales staff, "Your raise is
effective just as soon as you are."
I know you can create an environment of happiness for your
customer through fabricated rapport skills but a genuine joy for
sales will close more deals than you can imagine. Without your
skills of salesmanship, there would be nothing for company to
do. When you walk out of the office in the evening, it is
natural for you to feel like a winner. This goal is well
entrenched in the sales experts I know. It also gives you the
psychological momentum to overcome obstacles and plough through
adversity as you reach your sales goals and assist others.
Sales training more than anything else should have you recharged
as you go back out into the world. If the sales seminar doesn't
motivate you to work every sales lead more efficiently than why
bother.
Does Your Training Connect With Your Values?
Every great trainer has a personal strategic planning process.
It usually begins when you determine what you believe in and
what you stand for - your values. If your values and the
trainers match this is the glue that holds the core concepts of
the sales training in place. These values shape our personality
and our character as a sales professional.
Your virtues and qualities are the sum total of all your
thoughts, actions and beliefs since the moment you were born.
Your values, virtues and inner beliefs are the axle around which
the wheel of your life turns. All sales improvement begin when
you clarify your true values and commit yourself to live
consistently with them. It's been said, "You must stand for
something, or you will fall for anything!" Great sales trainers
know the value of the sales process and believe every prospect
they meet can find value in their product or services.
When Attending A Training How Specific Should Your Goals Be?
To achieve success in training you will find trainees are
successful because they're very clear and committed to their
values and specific outcomes from the training. Unsuccessful
trainees are fuzzy or unsure they perhaps were forced to the
training without a buy in from the sales manager.
When a training is a complete failure, you'll find that the
trainer didn't clearly outline the real values of the training
at all. These trainers stand for nothing and hope their
audiences fall for everything.
While training the sales staff at Positive Changes, our sales
staff had access to a wealth of resources designed to help them
succeed in their goals. For instance, use the Sales Mastery
series to stimulate your other-than-conscious and keep you on
track with specific, clear and organized sales goals. They
trained each franchise location to set goals for the day, week
and the month. Using these mind trips within themselves helped
them to enroll others into its use.