Successful sales person can be successful sales manager. Do you agree?

From my point of view I believe that ‘Not everyone is management material’

Promoting your best people into management roles seems like a quick fix to show employees you recognize their hard work. Unfortunately, many companies find out the hard way that not every great employee is management material.

 

Thanks you all ladies and gentlemen who participate in such healthy discussion and brain storming

 

 

Before promoting your best people, here are some questions you should ask yourself:

1. Is your employee aligned with company goals?

2. Does your employee have good people skills?

3. Can they see the big picture?

4. Can they listen?

5. Can they help your company grow?

6. Can they motivate a team?

7. Do they really want to manage?

Bad management can truly hurt your company, kill employee morale, and bring down your bottom line. Before promoting someone to a management position, ask yourself those questions in order to ensure you’re making the right decision.

Strongly agree if you Select and develop-your sales people who have strong managerial tendencies for sales management positions , At the same time understand that success as a sales person is not a good predictor of success as a sales manager and any sales people should Remember dale carnegie when he sayed today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday and Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all

i will vote with irphan ghani,,,being good sales man its not the guarentee that he will be best sales manager,,, it need management skill to coach the team, make plans for whole area,, thats entire different game.

May be and Why not?  

Sales manager was also earlier in that position. Addition of developed skills and desire to take new challenges made the person climbe the responsibility ladder. 

yes if he/she can complete all sale managarial duties

Yes it is possible when company capitalizes on his to be successful skill / his competitive edge by providing him additional management training.  

Can a successful salesman become a successful sales manager? But off course. It sounds like the most logical transition for having such a competitive advantage, after gaining first-hand, hands-on practical experience in selling. Can ANY salesperson become a successful manager in the same field? No, not necessarily, being individually skilled in selling is no guarantee for success in actually managing collective salesforces (people skills) or monitoring the performance of a department (analytical, insight and oversight abilities) or the strategy of a business as whole (vision).

Yes  and no

Yes cause he has been the filed previously and has a good vision about the obstacles and challenges that are facing the salesman

No

 

Cause some people just don’t have that management or should I be more specific leading skills  due to many factors 

Well,

Grouth is not birth right of some.

I personally say: "Top Possition is always empty to be occupied"

 

A successful sales person can be a better or best Manager too, given the fact that he have or built the attributes of leadership in him.

People who have a knack for understanding consumer buying behaviour and can encash it always have an edge over others. Hence If someone is good at sales and a leader by default, that person is undeniably fit to lead that department, and maybe even the company. The core of any successful business/company is the ability to show an upward financial growth consistently.

I DESAGREE BECAUSE THE MANAGER  MUST HAVE ANOTHER PROPERTIES