Us aspiring sales rock stars can be a proud bunch and as such we fail to do something that’s mission critical;

Ask for help!

We hesitate to ask other sales reps how they achieved a particular result because in doing so it sort of makes us feel inferior.

We fail to ask our manager for help because we don’t want to appear dependent or less “all knowing”!

We don’t ask the professionals for help because we feel it means we’re not good instead of simply wanting to get better.

It’s Your Ego’s Fault!

The ego is a wonderful thing for us sales folk!

It helps us with confidence, rejection and enables us to leap tall gatekeepers with a single bound but . . .

Too many times, it protects us from being human and vulnerable and . . .

Keeps us from learning and growing!

And you DO know that you have to keep learning and growing. Right?

But are you?

Sales Leaders: Make it easy for your team to approach you and better yet, ask them regularly how you can help them (make sure you mean it though) Keep your eyes and ears open for sales reps who aren’t asking for help but really need it.

Sales Reps: Get over yourself! Tell your ego to go wait in the car and then grow a set and start asking for help. Trying to go it along isn’t a strategy! Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness nor is it an admission of failure . . . It’s simply an opportunity to get better! Don’t ever forget that!

If this post sounds familiar its only because its the same one I sent you this morning.

That’s my way of saying . . . Don’t just consume information;  start doing something with it!

I help sales reps, sales leaders and business owners SELL MORE! Click HERE to download a FREE PDF to see how and email me for my availability to speak at your next event! paul@yoursalesplaybook.com