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The Sales Effectiveness Profile
In today’s increasingly competitive world, an effective salesperson (no matter what they are selling) needs a wide variety of skills and competencies in order to be successful.
Extensive research has been conducted with more than 400 sales managers and sales representatives in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. It was also carried out across a wide range of product- and service-led industries. The results clearly demonstrated that a number of core competencies were critical in every phase of the sales process. In total, seven competencies were identified, as follows:
The Sales Effectiveness Profile is based on these competencies to help salespeople understand more about their relative skills in these critical areas. The seven competencies that contribute to good (or bad) sales skills have therefore been drawn out extensively to gauge an individual’s overall selling profile.
Ideally, each of these competencies should be viewed as an individual piece in an overall “sales effectiveness jigsaw.” Although no one piece makes for effective sales competence by itself, each piece does work in combination with the others to create a comprehensive model.
By aspiring to improve our performance in all of these core competency areas, we can improve our capacity to sell effectively in many different situations.
