Progressive Professional
Sales Meetings
Most dealerships have one thing in common - they have lots of sales meetings! An intelligent business person would think this is a good thing. Sales meetings in most dealerships are a disaster. Management usually is perceived by the sales staff as "ranting and raving" about how badly they are doing their job. Angry and disappointed, the sales staff leaves the meeting and spends endless hours berating management which results in a loss of time, effort, and potential income.
Patrick Davis Has Developed a Solution
A monthly newsletter titled, Progressive Professional. This informative newsletter is formatted as an automotive career training guide, complete with four articles addressing four sales-related issues. The best use of each articles in his automotive career training guide is to give them to the sales associates at the beginning of each month and assign a separate topic to be discussed in weekly sales meetings.
As management and sales staff enter into serious study and implementation of the topic for the week from the automotive management training guide, positive feedback and constructive conversation will replace mistrust and hostility. Remember, salespeople look forward to good sales meetings and automotive career training. They hate negative meetings. "There is a big difference in a coach and an automotive career trainer. Most people have positive memories of someone who coached them during their formative years. Most sales trainers do not enjoy the same esteem. The difference is the feeling that a "coach" is on our side" - Patrick Davis
The Progressive Professional is a monthly publication.
Managing Editor: Larry Clifton
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