How to Increase Sales?

Increasing sales is the central goal of countless New Zealand organisations. Whether you are a small or large business, sales development and coaching are two of the most powerful strategies to increase sales success in every stage of the sales cycle. Coaching has a significant impact on an organisation's sales development strategy, which positively influences meeting sales targets, achieving growth and superior sales performance.

One of the critical steps in a sales development plan or coaching session is a sales aptitude test. Sales aptitude tests identify gaps in performance and equip your sales managers and team with the skills and strategies they need to make a positive difference in sales. Equip your sales managers and team with the skills and strategies they need to make a positive difference in sales.

How to assess your sales team performance

Achieving a sales KPI is a significant factor in assessing the performance of a sales team. However, many other critical aspects contribute to hitting sales targets.

A significant part of sales performance is how well salespeople interact with others. Their ability to effectively relate, communicate, influence and motivate prospects is a crucial skill in creating converting prospects and creating long-term partnerships with clients. Extended DISC® assessments help increase sales performance and uncover your team's opportunities for development.

• Identify your team's natural hard-wired DISC behavioural styles
• Identify gaps in your current sales performance
• Adjust team members' responsibilities to enhance sales performance and motivation
• Measure the attitude of your sales team toward crucial behaviours in the sales process
• Understand how your team currently view their level of sales competence

Our DISC Sales IQ test does what no other sales assessment can and connect a salespersons sales competence level to their DISC behavioural style. The combination of the two technologies gives recruiters compelling insight into whether a candidate can quickly develop specific skills or if they are working against their natural behavioural style. The DISC Sales IQ test provides sales coaches and managers with opportunities to develop the performance of salespeople.

How to improve sales team performance

FinxS Sales Competency tests and Extended DISC® assessments transform the way that we understand salespeople. We can target specifically, sales competencies and behaviours that are coachable and, ultimately, can be improved. Sales assessments support teams to achieve higher levels of confidence and motivation.

• Recognise the strengths and development areas of salespeople
• Identify the current level of sales competence
• Pinpoint areas that can be developed rapidly by identifying activities that come naturally to your salespeople
• Measure underlying sales mindsets
• Identify a salesperson's commitment to sales activities with the Excuse Index®
• Learn how to communicate more effectively with the DISC Personality Styles to increase sales

An important role of a sales manager is to match their sales team members to steps in the sales process to help facilitate more sales and excellent sales performance. The Sales Manager Assessment provides managers with a competency-based approach to build a winning sales team. A report identifies the top sales competencies, mindsets, and roles of an individual and matches them to steps in the sales process that correspond to their strengths.

Sales Aptitude Testing

The FinxS Sales Competence Assessment is a sales aptitude test that measures behavioural traits that are critical to success in sales. Top salespeople are highly effective in their role. They are committed to selling and motivated to achieve their goals.

The natural predispositions, attitude, level of competence and mindset of salespeople towards sales activities, often determine their sales success. Knowing where to start in terms of development can be overwhelming. FinxS® Sales Competence Assessment provides explicit and tangible information to create a road map to success.

The assessment is designed to strengthen and streamline learning and identifies strengths and weaknesses in 18 critically important sales competences. The assessment measures:

• The individual’s current level of sales competence 
• Underlying sales mindsets
• The sales excuse index
• Percentage match against different sales roles

The revolutionary Sales Excuse Index is only available in New Zealand through our Sales Competence assessment technology. Using this tool, sales managers can identify salespeople who stay focused on activities that will directly produce sales outcomes, leading to a focused and productive sales team. The lower the Excuse Index percentage is, the more likely a person is to ignore non-sales activities and instead focus on actions that directly produce sales results. Managers can identify how likely their salesperson is to procrastinate on sales tasks. Using the Sales Excuse Index, managers can delve deeper into issues that could be holding their salespeople back from success.

What is the Sales Competence Accreditation

The Sales Competence Accreditation equips sales coaches and managers with the skills to interpret and apply the Sales Competence Assessments to hire new staff and develop an existing salesforce. During the accreditation, we explore the 18 Sales Competencies, Sales Mindsets, Job Roles and Excuse Index to understand how to apply this in-depth assessment to the workplace. Learn how to integrate the Extended DISC® Assessments with the Sales Competence Assessment to understand how a person's DISC style may impact their sales success.

The Sales Competence Accreditation is held regularly across the main New Zealand cities, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Alternatively, we can travel anywhere in New Zealand to faciliate the Sales Competence Accreditation from the comfort of your office. Online training via video conference software is also available. 

Learning Outcomes:

• Confidently interpret and debrief the Sales Competence tool
• Gain an in-depth understanding of the 18 Sales Competencies, Sales Mindsets and Excuse Index®
• Connect the sales tool to Extended DISC® methodology for more in-depth analysis and development
• Apply the Sales Competence Development and Recruitment Assessments to coaching, consulting and recruitment situations.

DISC assessments for sales growth

Success in sales is often determined by how well sales professionals interact with their clients and prospects. Top salespeople are confidently self-aware and able to communicate their sales pitch with little stress or pressure. 

These successful professionals not only understand their DISC style but also understand the DISC types of others. Their ability to effectively relate, communicate and influence is crucially important when selling and creating relationships with clients and prospects. They understand how they need to behave and interact to be successful.

Are your Sales Professionals more of a 'Hunter' Sales Style or an 'Expert?' Some products require specialist knowledge, some roles require cold calling, while others require more of a personal touch. Every organisation has a specific need for a different approach, and some may even require a variety of sales methods. Understanding the traits needed enhances the chances of success. The DISC Sales and Service assessment identifies the sales behavioural style of your people so you can ensure they are in the right roles.