Growth Intervention: When teams Collaborate
Scenario: Problem Situation
Have you ever wondered why sales and service teams are mostly in tiff?
Well, in simple language it’s the key performing indicators widely known as KPIs that makes this difference so evident. Where the sales team is loaded with monthly targets to attain that business numbers, they in turn sometimes over sell or over commit for the sales to happen.
The main problem arises when the service team comes into the picture. It is the service team who generally interact with the customers post sales.
Now here’s the catch! Service team who manages the whole show is juggles between the raised customers’ expectations and the actual service they could provide.
This increases the conflicts between the two core teams Sales and Service and it gets difficult for both the teams to communicate.
Result, unmatched customer expectations, decreased satisfaction, on-going conflict and overall a tensed working environment.
Industry: Engineering
Stakeholders: Sales and Service Teams
Intervention Objective
The Growth intervention was designed to align sales and service team in line to the business goals
To provide solutions and sales pitch keeping customer centricity as the core
Solution
Using experiential learning and facilitation tools the intervention aimed at bringing long term change in the team’s approach. The entire intervention was spread over six month Pan India wherein Sales and Service teams were brought together.
The Growth Intervention Phases
Customized modules were designed understanding the need from the HR, HODs, Sales and Service team through a pre-training call with the stakeholders.
Action plans were made at each level and reviewed at each next level to understand the implication of the learning.
Growth Intervention Modules
Voice of Customer: Broad Program Outline
Work Life Balance
Prioritization
Being Proactive
Being Solution Oriented
Conflict Management
Sales Excellence: Broad Program Outline
Sales Process
Exploring the Market
Negotiation Skills
Closing Skills
Key Account Management
Selling by Stages
Solution Selling
Sales Tools - Strategy
SWOT, Blue Ocean Strategy
Service Excellence: Broad Program Outline
Service Excellence
Service Selling
Building Self Confidence
Dealing with difficult situations
Dealing with difficult behavior
Winning Trust
Outcome
A team that collaborates well is likely to attain their business goals much easily than a team with conflicts. The intervention helped both the teams come together understand each other’s view point thus building a stronger connect and a seamless working integration.