In its most simple definition, talent is any individual who has the capability to make a significant difference to the current and future performance of the organization.
It is no wonder that more and more organizations are realizing the importance of good talent as a competitive edge. The scary thing is that in the next 10 years, HR professionals expect three out of ten employees in their organization’s workforce to retire. That’s a lot of talent leaving organizations.
Retaining Talent
You’ve found your superstars and they rock. They’re the right fit for their job; the right fit for your organization; and you secretly hate them because they’re so perfect. But then you read the studies that state “21 million Americans will change jobs in 2012.”* You want to believe that your superstars don’t fall into that category… but do you know that? Aside from handcuffing them to their chairs (not recommended at all!), what can you do to keep your valued employees? Continue reading
The sixth and final quality is the most difficult to spot, and the quality which drives all the others to optimum use — PERSONAL MOTIVATION.
The best salespeople all have within them a drive to excel. Continue reading
Fifth is A SELF-IMAGE OF SUCCESS.
Psychologists have long known that people tend to live up to their image of themselves. We all understand that.
Every one of us can think of individuals in our own lives who have lots of ability and potential, but who never live up to that potential because of their poor self-image. Continue reading
Number four on the list of necessary qualities is the ABILITY TO BUILD POSITIVE BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS. Sales is, more than anything else, the activity of developing relationships with quantities of people which result in those people trusting the salesperson, feeling positive feelings about him/her, and believing the things he/she says.
So, the successful salesperson is the individual who can quickly build trusting relationships with all sorts of people. That requires empathy, the ability to listen, perceptiveness, and the ability to mold himself/herself into the kind of person the prospect needs. Continue reading
The third quality necessary for superstar success in sales is the ABILITY AND PROPENSITY TO LEARN.
I’m not talking strictly about acquiring knowledge in the sense that one learns in school. For the successful salesperson, the ability to learn means the ability to evaluate a situation, and then to modify or make adjustments in his/her behavior as a result. Continue reading
The second quality that every successful salesperson needs is a HIGH ENERGY LEVEL.
Whether we like it or not, it is still true, and probably always will be, that sales is, to a large degree, a numbers game. Every sales person must see a certain number of people in order to sell one. Or, he must call on an account a certain number of times before he begins to do business with it. Continue reading
Want to make your job much easier? Want to look like a hero to your boss? Want to make the best single decision you’ll ever make as a sales manager?
Then hire a superstar salesperson. A superstar will bring you such a treasure of powerful benefits that your single act of hiring a superstar will be the best business decision you’ll ever make. First, a superstar will require very little of your management or supervisory time. A superstar spends a great deal of time thinking about his/her job, figuring out how to do it better. He’s driven to succeed, and will work hard and smart in order to do so. The best management strategy with a superstar is to give him/her room and stay out of the way. That means you can spend your time with the other sales people who need it. Continue reading
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