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The Sales Evangelist

Rebecca Teasdale, Donald Kelly, Loyalists Team, Sales Team How do you move your team from being good to great?

Rebecca Teasdale is the co-author of The Loyalist Team. Learn how you can  apply some tips and strategies from this book into your own sale process.

The other co-authors of the book are Linda Adams, Audrey Epstein, and Abby Curnow-Chavez.

Whether you’re the team leader or the manager or a member of a team or department, there are so many great gems in this episode.

Here are the highlights of my conversation with Rebecca:

About The Loyalist Team:

This is based on the model for the types of teams that all teams fall into.

The books allows you to identify and recognize if you’re on a great team, a bad team, or somewhere in the middle.

This allows you to diagnose your starting point for any other business process. Once you know it, you know where to start and what actions to take.

The 4 Different Types of Team:

  1. The Saboteur Team (The Bottom End of Pack)

Characteristics:

  • There is about 15% of teams with this type of team.
  • Teams are governed by a lot of distrust.
  • People are motivated by having the best recognition or the best project or the next promotion.
  • People undermine each other. They’re afraid and are not able to do their best work.
  1. The Loyalist Team (The Top of the Pack)

Characteristics:

  • People hold each other accountable. They will call each other out when they see someone struggling or not doing their best work.
  • They’re just as committed to the success of their peers as they are to themselves.
  • When they see someone struggling or having a bad day, they’re able to step in and help the person rebuild their confidence or give the help they need.
  1. The Benign Saboteur Team (Middle of the Pack)

Characteristics:

  • Living the life of live and let live
  • No active undermining but very much set down mentality of not wanting to get involved.
  • They’re motivated to survive.
  1. The Situational Loyalist Team (Middle of the Pack)

Characteristics:

  • This is a good team, but not great.
  • They’re good on the surface, but they’re missing a couple of the key ingredients.

What You Can Do to Get to the Loyalist Team:

  • Be very intentional about being a good team but be armed with the right knowledge.
  • Have success conversations.
  • Get involved.
  • Talk about what things don’t work and be comfortable with that.
  • Have the ability to talk about these types of issues.

Some intersting statistics:

  • The loyalist team is 2000 times more likely than a saboteur team to be viewed effectively by their internal customers.
  • They are 50,000 times more likely than a saboteur team to detect conflict when it arises and do that in a productive way.
  • A loyalist team is 106 times more likely to give each other hard feedback.

Strategies for checking the team:

Know where you are at this point. Have an environment where you can sit down and have a conversation about this. Have a meaningful discussion on:

  • Your shared priorities
  • What you need from each other to be successful
  • What behavior do you want to hold each other accountable for
  • What ways are you going to support each other
  • How are you going to hold each other accountable
  • What results are you looking for as a team

Rebecca’s Major Takeaway:

Start by understanding any relationship on the team that are not loyalist relationships. Then work hard on finding common ground. Show up in a supportive way for those people. Give them the knowledge you want them to succeed. Start being willing to have difficult conversations as you’re asking them how to be better. Then go from here.

Episode Resources:

www.theloyalistteam.com

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About the Author The Sales Evangelist

Donald is the host of the popular sales podcast,"The Sales Evangelist". He is the founder of The Sales Evangelist Consulting Firm where he helps small companies develop killer sales process to scale their business and increase growth.

Donald is also an award-winning speaker, sales trainer, and coach. He's a big fan of traveling, South Florida staycations and high-quality family time. Donald has a belief that “anyone” can sell if they have the desire and receives the proper training.

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