3. 3
Goele Goris
Global HR Director at
Agfa HealthCare
6th Gear Sales
Talent development and transformation
program for commercial people in Europe,
Middle East and South America.
5. 5
Goals
of the program
Increase personal sales impact through better
alignment with the individual customer profile:
âȘ Understand preferred communication styles
âȘ Apply to sales conversations
âȘ Improve impact by a better understanding of the
customer and the readiness to buy
More control over opportunities &
pipeline through a better
alignment to the customer buying
cycle:
âȘUnderstand the buying cycle from a
customer perspective
âȘDo the right thing at the right time
âȘSpend less time & effort to win deals,
so that you can work on more
opportunities simultaneously
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Sales Management
Improving overall sales performance through
consistent coaching on competencies and sales
Coach sales individuals on buying cycle alignment
and people skills
Increase personal sales impact through
better alignment with the individual customer profile
âȘ Understand & detect communication preference
âȘ People skills applied to sales conversations
âȘ Understand customer profiles: role in the DMU,
drivers, support & impact
Learning objectives
& competencies
Sellers & Sales
Management
More control on opportunities through a
better alignment to customer buying readiness
âȘ Understand the customer buying cycle
âȘ Conversational fluency aligned with buying readiness
âȘ Objective based actions & activities
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Building blocks
for an agile program
Results
tracking
dashboard
Management Interviews
Management workshops
Management coaching
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Sales Reflex Auditâą
Blended learning for
lasting impact
Performance
Management
Process
Workshops Coaching
Snackable
Learningâą
Knowledge
reinforcement
Value adding
messaging
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Sales Reflex Audit
Online audits have been conducted
leading to an individual growth
plan with progress monitoring.
Monitoring of progress via
supervised steering and coaching.
Measuring individual situations
and their progresses
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Monitoring progress
via supervised steering and coaching
Proactive
Why â When - How
Everywhere
In-door & Field coaching
Buyer readiness detection
Soft skills coaching
Coaching
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Implant in
performance management process
Coaching
DisciplineofSalesManagement
âȘ Cadence based on maturity
âȘ Sessions divided in Sales & Opportunity coaching
âȘ Sales performance coaching done based on CRM live
data
CRM
Supportingcoaching
âȘ Capturing authentic sales behavior and convictions
which are injected in the 1:1 sessions
âȘ Installing a common language
âȘ Pointing to points of attention for coaching
Language
Commonlanguage/processusedat
alllayersoftheorganization
Blended learning
Multiplelearningmethodscombined
tomakeitstick
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Reinforcing key knowledge: 2 min. a day learning
a capabilities platform scientifically proven to
reinforce key knowledge, develop skills, and change
behavior (in minutes a day).
How it works:
The Management Experience
View dashboard on
Leaderboard, Engagement &
Proficiency
View heatmaps on initial and current
proficiency level
Receive email notifications
with suggested actions for
precise coaching
The Participant Experience
âą Participants get 2 questions each 2 days, repeated over time with short knowledge reinforcement. And an optional
leaderboard (gamification effect)
âą Real-time dashboarding to assess engagement and proficiency by team, individual, topic and single question.
Notification of individuals needing help and assess the proficiency increase by comparing the initial level (1st time
answered) with the current level (last time answered) -> Management coaching support and tracking
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Team members Dashboards
4 dimensions
(15 metrics )
Mindset
Sales competencies
Management competencies
Adoption
Summarized into
Attitude / Will do
Competencies / Can do
DACH HCIS Mgmt
Q1/2019
M
ichaelFalk
(Bonn)
Ingo
Renz
(O
snabruĂŻck)
W
olfgang
Platter
(Stuttgart)
D
irk
Reinold
(Jena)
G
iso
Langer(BI)
RalfH
irsch
(H
yd
M
edia)
Willingness to change 3 3 4 3 3 3 Legend
Continuous improvement 4 4 4 3 3 3 1 Weak
Customer orientation 4 4 3 4 3 3 2 Need improvement
People skills using DISC 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 On track
Ability to detect Buying readiness 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 Strong
Conversational fluency 3 3 2 2 2 2 Not (yet) applicable
Action alignment 3 3 3 3 3 3
Set objectives 4 4 4 3 4 3
Walk the talk 3 3 3 2 3 3
Active implementation follow up 3 3 3 2 3 3
Coaching 2 2 3 2 3 2
Objective based actioning 3 3 3 3 3 3
Understanding of principles 3 3 3 3 3 3
Use of vocabulary 3 3 2 2 2 2
On the job application 3 3 3 2 2 2
Attitude/ Will do 8,3 8,3 7,9 7,1 6,7 6,7
Competencies / Can do 7,5 7,5 7,5 6,4 7,5 6,9
MindsetSalesCompetencesMgmtCompet.AdoptionCan/Will
0,0
1,0
2,0
3,0
4,0
5,0
6,0
7,0
8,0
9,0
10,0
Michael Falk (Bonn)
Ingo Renz
(OsnabruĂŻck)
Wolfgang Platter
(Stuttgart)
Dirk Reinold (Jena)
Giso Langer (BI)
Ralf Hirsch (Hyd
Media)
0 0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1 1,2 1,4
Michael Falk (Bonn)
Ingo Renz (OsnabruĂŻck)
Wolfgang Platter (Stuttgart)
Dirk Reinold (Jena)
Giso Langer (BI)
Ralf Hirsch (Hyd Media)
Progress Q3 - 2018 / Q1 - 2019
Attitude/ Will do Competencies / Can do
Country Team member 1
Team
member 2
Team
member 3
Team member 4
Team
member 6
Team
member 5
Team member 1
Team member 2
Team member 3
Team member 4
Team member 5
Team member 6
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Manager Dashboard (example)
Networking
Customer
focus
Result
oriëntation
Team
development
Team impact Leadership AVG Focus
Michael Falk (Bonn) 8 8 9 6 8 8 7,8 Team development
Ingo Renz
(OsnabruĂŻck)
7 8 9 6 8 8 7,7 Team development
Wolfgang Platter
(Stuttgart)
6 8 9 7 7 8 7,5 Networking
Dirk Reinold (Jena) 6 8 8 6 7 7 7,0
Networking/Team
development
Giso Langer (BI) 7 8 8 6 7 7 7,2 Team development
Ralf Hirsch (Hyd
Media)
6 8 8 6 7 7 7,0
Networking/Team
development
6,7 8,0 8,5 6,2 7,3 7,5 7,4
Manager 1
Manager 2
Manager 3
Manager 4
Manager 5
Manager 6
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Linking with business
impact on pipeline conversion ratio (example)
Comparing conversion
ratio (from detection to
closed deal) for each
seller at initial level
(prior to program start)
to current level.
The graph shows
improvements for 6 out
of 7 team members.
Participant1
Participant2
Participant3
Participant4
Participant5
Participant6
Participant7
Sales Team
Q3
Region/Country
Reference conversion rate 29% 30% 25% 40% 40% 15% 25%
Current conversion rate 34% 25% 35% 50% 45% 20% 30%
Improvement 19% -17% 40% 25% 13% 33% 20%
Y over year target growth =20%
Pipelineconversionimpact
19%
-17%
40%
25%
13%
33%
20%
-20% -10% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
PARTICIPANT 1
PARTICIPANT 2
PARTICIPANT 3
PARTICIPANT 4
PARTICIPANT 5
PARTICIPANT 6
PARTICIPANT 7
Pipeline conversion impact
Ref. Juli 2019
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â On-going L&D program to improve
âȘ Competence development
âȘ Customer relevant interactions
âȘ Decision Making Unit coverage
âȘ On-boarding new hires
â Agile and individualized support
âȘ Precise coaching
âȘ When needed
âȘ Indoor and in the field
â Making L&D measurable
âȘ Clear indicators on evolution
âȘ Comparing current against initial level
âȘ Linking to business impact
Business impact
w
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What made the difference
âȘ Involve top management and product marketing
âȘ Walk the talk
âȘ Competence development must be integrated with improved customer messaging
âȘ Make them part of steerco
âȘ Simultaneous working on competence building and improving support systems
âȘ Lower process and systems complexity
âȘ Implement a common language
âȘ CRM must show ârealâ situation
âȘ Agile learning
âȘ Just in time learning -> more touchpoints, bite sized, less out of field
âȘ Requires end to end measurement