Experience Counts
Checklist #8


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Strategic sales and account management talent development
 

Ten questions to assess your company's strategic sales and account management talent development capability

  1. Do you know what skills your company needs to execute its strategic sales and account management growth objectives?

  2. Does your company have a process for identifying, assessing, and developing its next generation of strategic sales and account management leaders in all its businesses and regions?

  3. Do you have specific development plans for your high-potential strategic sales and account management leaders?

  4. Are you able to deploy the right people when emerging opportunities arise quickly and without significant disruption to other parts of your organization?

  5. Do you have diverse and plentiful pools of talented employees who are ready, willing, and able to be deployed to new opportunities at the strategic sales and account management leadership levels of your organization?

  6. Do you have a diverse and plentiful pool of leaders who are capable of moving into your organization's most senior strategic sales and account management executive roles?

  7. Do you offer managers and executives developmental experiences specifically aimed at preparing them for the unique challenges of leading large, complex, global strategic account management organizations?

  8. Have you, as a strategic sales and account management leader, used words and deeds to unequivocally demonstrate that you are fully committed to developing talent globally in your company?

  9. Would the people around you consider you actively engaged in your company's strategic sales and account management talent initiatives?

  10. Do you hold your strategic sales and account management leaders accountable for identifying and developing talent in their businesses, functions, and regions?

 
     

Updated July 2007