Time Planning and Goal Setting For Salespeople
Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 in Uncategorized
By James O Kirk
To most salespeople, time planning revolves around just buying a time planner and filling in the pages. That’s of course what your supposed to do. But it’s just a small part of the big picture. Time planning actually starts with goals. Why do I say this? Because written goals are the best way to tell what the most productive thing possible is at any given moment.
When your feeling positive and motivated, you persuade better. If you allow yourself to become just a sales machine with no time for anything else, you’ll just burn yourself out. For sure you’ll create problems in your personal relationships. And worse still your health could suffer. Besides all this, you’ll have no fun, and will start feeling sorry for yourself, and you could find your career will start to decline.
At times the most productive things you can do is to take time out for yourself, go see a movie, meet your girlfriend or boyfriend for lunch. Or my favourite, go to the gym for a workout to ensure high fitness and energy,
To be successful, you need to be a highly tuned machine that is able to function over the long haul and face rejection, the public, your competition and deadlines. You must also be able to meet all your company’s expectations and demands put on you as a salesperson. You have to be in tune and in balance, psychologically and physically and this balance starts with goals.
Get your goals and priorities in line. You know what you want and how you want to get there. Your goals are all in writing and you priorities are set. Your time planning should start at night before you go to sleep. First go though your time planner and set out the day ahead. Sort out your top five priorities for the next day. Next add any personal areas you feel you should cover, writing down the next days top five priorities shouldn’t take more than ten minutes if you do it in a quite place. Once done, forget it and go to sleep ready for the day ahead.
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