Commitment
The members will meet on a consistent basis so as to remain current with each other’s businesses, thereby providing the best of directional advice to each other.
Caring
The role of the Sales Manager is indeed a tough one. Often, the incumbent has little to no formal training in the role. As well, few places to turn to get up to speed. Here, in the Sales Manager Forum, each member is here for the same purpose—to learn from other’s experience in the role.
The intent is to conduct oneself in a “tough love” fashion: care enough about each member to “shoot them straight,” even if hearing the message is not easy but needed to hear. We will care enough about our fellow members that we will risk some nicks in a friendship for the betterment of the member. In time, the nicks will be repaired and the member’s business will be enhance.
Confidentiality
Unlike meeting with a group of peers in your industry, the Sales Manager Group’s commonality is the role played by the Members (Sales Leaders in charge of growing their sales teams in quantity and quality). As such, no fear of competitors taking the intellectual product of the members and utilizing it in their businesses. Here we see a true openness, enlisting the best thinking of each member, applied to the member’s challenges/opportunities