The Impact of Sales Process and Skills on Sales Performance
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Sales is the engine that creates a company’s main source of revenues. Achieving and even exceeding sales targets is a key focus not only for the sales organization but also for the top management of the company.
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Introduction to Sales Process and Skills
Sales is the engine that creates a company’s main source of revenues. Achieving and even exceeding sales targets is a key focus not only for the sales organization but also for the top management of the company. Top sales performance can be downgraded if salespeople do not possess and apply good selling skills and sales enabling process. These views are consistent with the belief that great sales performances are accomplished by people applying skills against a well-engineered sales infrastructure. Preparing exceptional salespeople to thrive in their challenging roles is a challenge most of us in selling domestic and global companies face daily. Unique to the sales profession, though, we not only need to teach salespersons to be perfect in their roles, but their performance itself is critical to our firm’s overall commercial success.


Theoretical Framework: Understanding Sales Process and Skills
Among the universe of competences present in CRM, the set of skills most needed at this point of the study are inherent in the Sales Process and Sales Management. Scholars and professionals in the area have sought, through research, to develop constructs to measure certain specific dimensions of the entire competitive set. Techniques have been developed that aim to measure the impact on performance, always comparing business results with the organizational resources required. The study to date addresses only initial stages. To the best of our knowledge, the abilities of the construct are basically operational for employees responsible for performing the activities determined by these. And to address these topics, the study aims to develop a valid and appropriate scale for understanding how sales process improvement techniques can influence electronic sales channel performance.
The theory proposed by the Sales Process Engineering Movement focuses on refining the organizational sales process and transposing personal selling skills to the electronic sales channel. The central premise is that there is a “best practice” for sales, derived from marketing and management science theories and supported by accumulated evidence. The word “process” is used here from a general point of view and can apply to all methods, systems, and procedures used to produce what is sold. The literature and authors link sales process improvement to resource management and influence students in this way.

Practical Implications and Recommendations for Enhancing Sales Performance
Effective sales management requires motivation and human development. By developing a sales force, a sales manager can expect better problem-solving capabilities, listening skills for true customer understanding, group operating skills, and broadened insights into sales problems and how the sales force wants to help customers, including technological and administrative assistance. As the importance of sales skills increases, motivation and human development techniques must necessarily improve to deal with the emerging requirements. Although sales force development has always been supported by sales leaders as a sales driver, for the future, sales force development is no longer a means of increasing the overall ability of the team; it will also be necessary to differentiate individual salespeople within that team based on market and customer expectations of the function.
While the importance of sales process, tools, and skills has been recognized, many salespeople express a lack of understanding about how to implement these in their day-to-day activities. Salespeople are often confused by the process and tools and do not fully embrace a formalized sales process, and do not follow the sales process the way it was designed. Therefore, they do not fully integrate the sales tools recommended in the sales process that have been reported as valuable for providing customer information and forecasting products or services. The results and information suggested in this study could help you gain more benefits and avoid these negative findings. Additionally, having a clear understanding of the customer buying process is believed to expedite the sales process but can decrease the effectiveness of using selling techniques. A strong correlation exists between sales performance and understanding of the customer buying process. Therefore, when teaching personal selling, practitioners should stress the importance of clearly understanding the customer buying process.