{"id":22442,"date":"2020-10-23T06:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T06:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perpetos.com\/?p=22442"},"modified":"2024-04-28T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T09:15:00","slug":"3-behaviours-9-tips-to-increase-commercial-team-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perpetos.com\/en\/sales-performance\/3-behaviours-9-tips-to-increase-commercial-team-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Behaviours &#038; 9 Tips to Increase (Commercial) Team Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To stimulate improved sales performance, it\u2019s important to understand and practice digital behaviors that promote a sense of psychological safety. You can encourage this psychological safety in your commercial team by:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Framing the work as a learning process,&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acknowledging your own fallibility;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Modeling curiosity and asking lots of questions.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Remote working and digital communications<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Psychological safety and trust in leadership are more important than ever before as sales forces are increasingly working remotely and communicating digitally.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Leverage psychological safety<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Amy Edmondson<\/em><em>,<\/em> Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, defined the notion of psychological safety as a <strong>shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking<\/strong> and being vulnerable in front of each other. In other words: team members feel accepted and respected in psychologically safe teams.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that members of effective teams feel comfortable asking questions or bringing up new ideas \u2013 without worrying about being judged \u2013 and are confident they won\u2019t be embarrassed or punished for making mistakes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>The whole is greater than the sum of its parts<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In line with this phrase first coined by the philosopher Aristotle, we also believe that members of <strong>efficient sales teams can achieve more by working together<\/strong> than working alone. An efficient commercial team is therefore more than the sum of its individuals \u2013 so even though getting these individuals to all work together can be tough, it\u2019s critical for team effectiveness. They need to plan, solve problems, make decisions, and review progress. And they need each other \u2013 and efficient leadership \u2013 to get this work done successfully.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#0ba298\"><strong>3 behaviors that increase team efficiency<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A Google study reported in The New York Times Magazine highlighted several factors that boost team efficiency, and psychological safety came top in the order of importance. The most effective leaders are therefore those that create a safe and open \u2018digital dialogue\u2019 with their team members.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three specific behaviors that strongly correlate with high-performing managers:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Expressing doubts<\/strong>: Do you feel safe saying \u2018I don\u2019t know\u2019, or are you worried about seeming ignorant or incompetent? Managers who admit not knowing the answer to a question \u2013 and who create the same sense of security in their direct contacts&nbsp; \u2013 are more effective than those who do not.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Requesting feedback<\/strong>: Asking for and providing feedback increases effectiveness and engagement. Digital interactions through video conferences, chats, or email are good opportunities for providing constructive feedback \u2013 and constructive feedforward.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sharing opinions<\/strong>: It\u2019s important for team members to feel confident that nobody else in the team will embarrass or punish them for offering ideas or questioning the status quo.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#0ba298\"><strong>Our 9 tips for building psychological safety<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Create a forum to discuss<a href=\"https:\/\/perpetos.com\/sales-enablement\/how-to-get-engagement-in-sales-meetings\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> issues and concerns<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Establish a common language<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ask for input and opinions, stimulate feedback, and provide feedforward&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Share your communications and personal preferences, and encourage others to do the same<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clarify team member roles and responsibilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Communicate team objectives and determine how each member can contribute to the team and broader company objectives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Explain what work you are doing and the impact it will have on customers and the company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adopt a <a href=\"https:\/\/perpetos.com\/en\/sales-performance\/buying-cycle-insights-improve-sales-performance\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">customer-centric<\/a> evaluation method<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seek <a href=\"https:\/\/perpetos.com\/en\/qstream\/\">continuous improvement\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To stimulate improved sales performance, it\u2019s important to understand and practice digital behaviors that promote a sense of psychological safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[745,746,744,747],"department":[511,509],"media":[545],"topic":[514,526,522,515],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>3 Behaviours &amp; 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