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Skill 5 of 5

Manage the Performance Curve and Build the Bench

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Urgent underperformance can consume the attention that strong performers and future leaders also need. Relevant deal and performance evidence helps the manager choose the right response. Specific recognition identifies what colleagues can repeat. Dated improvement, growth, and succession records make follow-through visible without treating every situation as the same kind of case.

Proficiency Level

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Measurable Behaviors

Behaviors are optimized to be directly observable for evidence-based skill tracking.

Address underperformance within 30 days and follow through

Opens an improvement conversation within 30 days after two below-plan cycles and records checkpoints and the final decision.

Build a documented bench of promotion-ready successors

Updates critical-role successors quarterly with readiness evidence, remaining gaps, and active development work.

Build development plans for top performers every quarter

Updates top-performer plans quarterly with next-role goals, stretch work, leadership exposure, and dated milestones.

Ground every performance conversation in data, not impressions

Uses quota, activity, conversion, pipeline, and deal evidence to explain the performance pattern and response.

Recognize a notable result specifically within 48 hours

Recognizes the result owner publicly within 48 hours and names the action or skill worth repeating.

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Mastering Sales Performance and Succession

Each response follows the evidence and the relevant cadence, with the cause of a performance gap verified before action. Top performers have quarterly growth work, and successor names come with readiness gaps and active assignments rather than an unsupported label.

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