Coach Leadership Model in Sales
- Mohau Motsilili
- Aug 2, 2015
- 2 min read

A sales coach leadership model has become an essential part of the current salesforce and plays a vital role in empowering, guiding, counseling and mentoring salespeople to have a clear understanding of the sales person’s abilities to understand the direction of the Sales Managers. Sales Managers are expected to be skilled at coaching their sales teams to improve skills, job satisfaction and performance. However, they should also learn how to coach their teams to achieve outstanding sales results by applying specific techniques in the context of the team’s strengths at each stage of the sales process. The sales Manager in adopting coach leadership model plays a vital role in developing the skills of the sales team in order to adapt with the changes in today’s rapidly changing global environment.
Through effective and efficient coach leadership model sales managers instills self-confidence in each and every individual salesperson, and thus inspires individual internal derive or motivation to improve their performance continuously. At the same time, coach leadership model generate a climate of trust and a sense of team spirit between all participants of the salesforce team, which encourages salespeople to work together towards the common goals that will benefit the organization as a whole.
The next sections focus on each of these coach leadership models: supervisory feedback, role modeling and trust in manager. The purpose is to relate them in order to better understand how and why sales coaching can be effective at enhancing salesperson’s performance.
Supervisory feedback
Positive supervisory feedback is a vital variable that significantly influences salesperson’s commitment, job satisfaction, motivation and performance. Positive feedback enhance performance and job satisfaction.
Role model
Role modeling is critical because salespeople emulates the work habits, positive attitudes and goals of their managers and simply are not willing to go extra mile if their supervisors are not willing to do the same. The most effective coach leadership model is to provide sales people with a model that is consistent with the strategic objective of the organization. If the potential followers regards the leader favorable, role modeling will result in followers emulating the leader for obvious benefit of the organization.
Trust in sales managers
These climate of trust created when a sales manager is honest and reliable and shows genuine concern about needs of sales people through honesty and by maintaining open and two-way channels of communication.
However, effective coach leadership model occurs in an environment of mutual respect and trust between the sales managers and sales people. The sales managers can create that environment by showing honesty, reliability and competency. The practice of coach leadership model can increase the performance of sales managers while improving the organisation’s quality and culture. Leadership coaching model is a rewarding opportunity for organizations to provide support for sales managers and leverage their interests for the profit of all stakeholders at all the levels of the organization, including consumers. Coach leadership Model is a process of facilitating positive change that influences sales manager’s performance in the organizational, development of a specific skills, or a broader sense of personal growth.
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