How does a leading business figure go about putting together a new sales team? Whether you are putting together your own field sales team or are looking to join one, an article from the Forbes magazine website could help.
Bob Gaudreau, the global sales director of Regus, describes his six fundamental needs for an effective sales organisation starting right from the beginning when he stresses the need to ‘Hire right’. He says that companies should ‘Insist upon a structured interview process with two key components: a formalized interviewer questionnaire and dual interviews with at least two separate managers.’ Variety is also the spice of life as well as key to an effective sales team – ‘If you hire only people you like you are failing your organization many times over.’ For more points on building a sales team from training to pay rates, read the full article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2011/11/28/how-to-build-a-sales-team-from-the-ground-up/
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