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How do you keep Sales reps from seeing Ops as "the process police"?

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  1. Mollie Bodensteiner
    Mollie Bodensteiner

    Engine SVP of Operations | Formerly Engine, Sound, Deel, Marketo, Syncari • 1mo

    Change what you optimize for. Most ops teams measure compliance. Are reps following the process? 

    I measure friction. Where is the process slowing a rep down, and is that slowdown earning anything in return? When reps see you auditing the system on their behalf instead of auditing them, the dynamic shifts. You're not enforcing. You're clearing the path.
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  2. Tyler Will
    Tyler Will

    Intercom VP, Revenue Operations | Formerly LinkedIn • Jun 25

    We're lucky in that I don't think reps view us this way most of the time. How we got there is probably a multi-year project and the result of a lot of different factors. A few that come to mind, in no particular order:1. Where there is a process you want them to adhere to, (1) make it clear why and how the results are used to create business value, ideally for them, but at a minimum why the company cares and (2) make it as easy as possible for them to do it, with some thoughtful reinforcement in ...Read More

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