Selling Styles and Profiling Sales Success
Applications
The Wave Sales Report is designed for use in:
- Selection - Recruiting top sales people who will impact on business performance
- Coaching - Highlighting areas of strength and limitation across the sales cycle and exploring the alignment of motives and talents
- Training Needs Analysis - Providing data on individual and sales team potential benchmarked against external data
- Sales Training - Profiling areas where sales skills and behaviors can be enhanced
- Identifying Sales Leadership Potential - Facilitating succession planning and identifying future leaders
Benefits
- Strong Prediction of Sales Performance - provided by high validity measurement
- Selection of Better Sales People – based on motives and talents
- Improved Retention – based on focused hiring and better fit against job requirements
- Focused Sales Development – capitalising on strengths and enhancing motive–talent combinations
- Targeted Sales Training – on areas of lower skill and/or confidence
- Early Identification of Potential Sales Leaders – who can drive performance and build the talent pipeline
Report
The Wave Sales Report measures a person’s potential to perform in a sales role.
Three elements of sales potential are profiled:
- Potential against the key characteristics for successful selling
- Effectiveness in different sales situations
- The potential for sales leadership
Administration
Secure online administration via Saville Consulting’s assessment platform Oasys or via the Saville Consulting Bureau Service.
Completion time:
40 minutes, Wave Professional Styles
Requires a Saville Consulting Wave accredited user to interpret and feedback report data.
Professional Styles Example Sales Report - Sample Candidate