Does the idea sound too disruptive?
Almost any organisation is setting sales targets in a top down way. An executive committee is deciding the next year’s organisation target and then sales management is responsible to split it and set targets for each individual sales person.
Sales management should have a process that identifies and allocates the target level for each region, vertical or even target customer. As you may imagine that for this exercise to be correct and the split of incentives fair, the company must establish tested and validated methods for target allocation.
We all know that the high turnover of sales people in an organisation has mostly to do with the incentives scheme. Either the payout, the targets or its mechanism, are usually areas that upset sales people.
Sales targets are usually one of the main reasons for sales people to leave their job.
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