Sales Manager's Challenge Survey


Instructions: For each question:

  • Check the Financial Impact Box if the situation were changed, it would financially impact your company in a positive way.

  • Check the Major Concern Box for your most important issues

  • Add contact info

  • Submit

Measurement & Reporting

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

1

Salespeople drop a prospect right after the forecast comes out, we don't know about it until the next forecast

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

2

Can't tell if we will meet our sales goals during the period

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

3

Don't know the true sales cycle for each product

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

4

Difficulty assessing new salespeople

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

5

Can’t see the middle of the  pipeline, just what is going in and coming out

Time Management

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

6

Don’t have enough time to travel with all the salespeople

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

7

Don’t have time to talk to each sales person about each prospect.

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

8

Don’t spend sufficient time with those salespeople who need help.

Management Effectiveness

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

9

Have no way to know about problem prospects unless alerted by salespeople

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

10

Learn too late about lost opportunities  (too late to get in to help or reverse)

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

11

Don’t have tools to be as proactive as I would like. I find myself being mostly reactive

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

12

Don’t have accurate information regarding why business is being lost

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

13

Don’t have a system that tells me which prospects a salesperson needs help with

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

14

Don’t have a method to identify a salesperson’s recurring problems

Salesperson Effort

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

15

Unaware of intermittent lapses in salesperson’s effort

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

16

Difficulty assessing the effort of the salespeople

Salesperson Effectiveness

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

17 Can’t determine specific sales force training needs

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

18 Can’t pinpoint strengths and weaknesses of individual salespeople

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

19 Difficulty assessing salesperson’s impact on a territory

Financial

 Impact

Major

Concern

20 Salespeople are not focusing on the best revenue opportunities

 

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