{"id":1678,"date":"2011-03-10T02:13:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T09:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peaksalesrecruiting.comblog\/when-to-promote-your-top-sales-rep-to-sales-manager\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T19:44:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:44:36","slug":"when-to-promote-your-top-sales-rep-to-sales-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peaksalesrecruiting.com\/blog\/when-to-promote-your-top-sales-rep-to-sales-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"When to Promote Your Top Sales Rep to Sales Manager (Requires 35 seconds to read)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many moons ago, we blogged about the\u00a0Six Reasons Not to Promote your Top Reps to Sales Management<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>and here are the top seven reasons you as the company executive or business owner *would*<\/em> promote your top sales rep to a sales manager position.<\/p>\n

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  1. There is a common understanding between yourself the rep that this is not a promotion at all, but in fact a job change since selling and managing sales are two completely different jobs (managing involves overseeing, training, coaching, reporting, visioning, communicating)<\/li>\n
  2. The rep has thought long and hard about their decision to effectively depart from sales and assume a new job \u2013 you don\u2019t want to pay for their life experiment<\/li>\n
  3. You can afford the loss of their sales production since they will no longer be selling at that rate if at all<\/li>\n
  4. You have carefully considered the job requirements and objectively assessed the suitability of your top rep as well as other internal and external candidates who may be qualified (often the best sales people are hardwired to be anything but capable sales managers)<\/li>\n
  5. You are prepared to work with them to help them be successful including coaching and training them, especially if they are a first time manager<\/li>\n
  6. The rep has the respect of their peers on the sales team \u2013 they don\u2019t need to be liked, but must be respected<\/li>\n
  7. You have been very clear about the goals and expectations associated with the role \u2013 again if this is a first time manager, assume nothing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Image courtesy of Ambro \/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net<\/pre>\n
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