It always has been a little complicated to figure out what exactly makes a top-notch Sales & Marketing Assistant. Well-Run Concepts has been conducting research to quantify what is needed in the position of Sales & Marketing Assistant today by defining these key areas:
Attributes: personal skills or competencies
Values: rewards and culture
Behaviors: how they do the job
We used a comprehensive, validated, step-by-step process called the Trimetrix system to determine what is needed for top performance. This article will summarize our findings to date and here is what we found.
Attributes tells us if an individual can do the job by looking at what personal skills or competencies are needed in the job of Sales & Marketing Assistant.
The Top Seven Attributes are:
1. SELF MANAGEMENT: The ability to prioritize and complete tasks in order to deliver desired outcomes within allotted time frames.
Independently pursues business objectives in an organized and efficient manner
Prioritizes activities as necessary to meet job responsibilities
Maintains required level of activity toward achieving goals without direct supervision
Minimizes work flow disruptions and time wasters to complete high quality work within a specified time frame.
2. PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION: The ability to establish a process for activities that lead to the implementation of systems, procedures or outcomes.
Defines plans and organizes activities necessary to reach targeted goals
Organizes and utilizes resources in ways that maximize their effectiveness
Implements appropriate plans and adjusts them as necessary
Consistently demonstrates organization and detail orientation.
3. RESILIENCY: The ability to quickly recover from adversity.
Continues toward goals in the face of difficulty and adversity
Handles criticism and rejection from others with objectivity
Recovers quickly from personal setbacks
Moves past unforeseen obstacles without unnecessary delay
4. RESULTS ORIENTATION: The ability to identify actions necessary to complete tasks and obtain results.
Maintains focus on goals
Identifies and acts on removing potential obstacles to successful goal attainment
Implements thorough and effective plans and applies appropriate resources to produce desired results
Follows through on all commitments to achieve results
5. SELF STARTING: The ability to initiate and sustain momentum without external stimulation.
Initiates relevant activities toward achieving business goals
Independently completes projects and produces desired results
Requires little or no supervision to stay focused on necessary activities
Readily identifies and pursues business opportunities without outside direction
6. CUSTOMER FOCUS: a commitment to customer satisfaction.
Consistently places a high value on customers and all issues related to customers
Objectively listens to, understands and represents customer feedbac
Anticipates customer needs and develops appropriate solutions
Meets all promises and commitments made to customers
7. INTERPERSONAL SKILLS: The ability to interact with others in a positive manner.
Initiates and develops business relationships in positive ways
Successfully works with a wide range of people at varying levels of organizations
Communicates with others in ways that are clear, considerate and understandable
Demonstrates ease in relating with a diverse range of people of varying backgrounds, ages, experience and education levels
Values make up the next critical success factor needed, which tells us why an individual will do the job or, in other words, what rewards & cultures are they seeking on the job.
The Top Three Values are:
1. UTILITARIAN/ECONOMIC: Rewards those who value practical accomplishments, results and rewards for
their investments of time, resources and energy.
2. TRADITIONAL/REGULATORY: Rewards those who value traditions inherent in social structure, rules, regulations and principles.
3. AESTHETIC: Rewards those who value balance in their lives, creative self-expression, beauty and nature.
Behaviors tell us how an individual will perform the job. We analyzed which of the behaviors an individual should possess to perform well in the job of Sales and Marketing Assistant. This is very important information to know in understanding communication styles.
The Top Three Behaviors are:
1. FREQUENT INTERACTION WITH OTHERS
The job requires a strong people orientation, versus a task orientation. The
job will comfortably deal with multiple interruptions on a continual basis,
always maintaining a friendly interface with others.
2. CUSTOMER ORIENTED
The job demands a positive and constructive view of working with others.
There will be a high percentage of time spent in listening to, understanding and successfully working with a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds to achieve win-win: outcomes.
3. FREQUENT CHANGE
The job requires a comfort level with juggling many balls in the air at the same time! It will be asked to leave several tasks unfinished, and easily move on to new tasks with little or no notice.
Now that we have a clear picture of what the Sales & Marketing Assistant Job looks like, I would like to ask you this
If you are a Sales & Marketing Assistant, do you have these critical success factors mastered? If not, whats your plan to develop them?
If you are company, how are you currently measuring the talent in your sales team today?
Do they have the above named attributes, values and behaviors?
If so, great! You are ahead of the competition!
If not, how will you develop them or better yet, select talent that already
has it?
Here are a few suggestions to get you started:
If you want to know for sure, then run a Personal Talent Profile on yourself or your staff. Then match the results to the benchmark of the Sales & Marketing Assistant Job in this article.
If you have a unique culture in your company, you may want to be more specific and run a Trimetrix job benchmark with your own stakeholders. Then you can match your talent to your unique culture.
Either way, if you are not assessing your talent now, how can you meet the challenges of todays evolving Sales & Marketing Department needs?
Well-Run Concepts would like to work with you to develop a scientifically validated system for defining, selecting and developing top talent for your company.
If you would like more information on how the Trimetrix system works, or more details of our research, please visit us on the web at www.well-run.com, or email us at
success@well-run.com.
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