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How Putting Together a Great Sales Department is Like Building a Hard-Hitting Baseball Team
How lessons from baseball team building can help you better visualize putting your sales line-up together
In spring each year, America’s national pastime gets underway, with the start of the baseball season. Baseball is a game of teamwork, patience and courage in times of failure. If you’re in sales, these qualities may seem familiar — they’re no different from the qualities required for success in sales.
If you’re trying to put a great team together for the sales operation at your business, it can help to look at the way major-league baseball teams build their rosters.
There are valuable lessons to be learned studying the way baseball teams bring managers together, players whose skills fill well-defined roles, and an assembly made up of starters, closers and veterans, in order to succeed.
If it piques your curiosity to think of building a sales team as a process not unlike putting a great major-league baseball team together, what follows are tips on how lessons from baseball team building can help you better visualize putting your sales line-up together.
