--- title: Want to be One of the Cool Kids?...and Sales description: Ever been on the other side of the Team? Not included by the Cool Kids? Left out of the really important front-office activities? image: https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/file-2628297493-jpg/images/patriots-team-resized-600.jpg --- [![Derby Management](https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/file-2618089236-png/derbymanagement/derbylogo.png) ](https://www.derbymanagement.com/)                                                  [![Social media-LI logo](https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Social%20media-LI%20logo.jpeg?width=26&name=Social%20media-LI%20logo.jpeg) ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackderby/)[![Social Media-Twitter ](https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Social%20Media-Twitter%20.jpeg?width=25&name=Social%20Media-Twitter%20.jpeg) ](https://twitter.com/derbymanagement)[![Social Media-Facebook logo](https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Social%20Media-Facebook%20logo.jpeg?width=27&name=Social%20Media-Facebook%20logo.jpeg)](https://www.facebook.com/derbymanagement/) **Working with you to create success in 2026!!!  ** # Derby Management's "Competitive Edge" Blog # Want to be One of the Cool Kids?...and Sales Posted by [Jack Derby, Head Coach](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/author/jack-derby-head-coach) on Wed, Dec 10, 2014 Find me on: [Facebook ](https://www.facebook.com/managementcoach) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackderby/) [Twitter ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackderby/) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ### **Ever been on the other side of the Team?** - **Not included by the Cool Kids? ** - **Left out of the really important front-office activities? ** - **Relegated to *"those people back in the factory"*?** ### ***How did not being on the Team feel?   ...Not so good , I expect.*** ### ![sales teams, patriot teams, team building](https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/file-2628297493-jpg/images/patriots-team-resized-600.jpg) ### ****       ### **Jack's Team Building Rules** **-Always include more than exclude -Engage! ...even when you don't need to  -Reach out, include, and you'll empower  -Above all else, always support & train the Team** And right now-today, this week-there is absolutely no better means or time to do this than by including every VP, Director, Manager and Supervisor in your business and sales planning processes for 2015.   Even, if you don't *need* to.  Because, you really do *need* to. Sales planning, like business planning, is not done in a back room with the green eye-shaded accounting types rattling through 16 cross-synched spreadsheets.  The expense detailing and budget creation are the easy tasks. They really are!   The hard, very difficult, teeth-gnashing decision making stuff is for the leadership-at all management and supervisory levels-of the business to become thorough drenched in the process of planning.  The tough decisions of absolute long term strategy-setting might need to be left to a smaller group of executives, but the actual process of engagement needs to involve every manager in the business. Without this involvement...   - there will be no opportunity for true empowerment - there will be no engagement in the decision making process - there can be no consensus-building - everything will take longer, since it would need to be translated - there can be no bench building of the next level leaders - ...very simply, there won't be any team. As you're working 15 hour days over the next few weeks chasing down orders, spending weekends working on your 2015 departmental plans and squeezing in all of the meetings and relatated travel that you committed to in the quieter time of October, your guiding principles of management for your 2015 plans need to be the 3 E's... - engagement - enablement - empowerment  ...even when you don't technically need to! **[Great article](https://hbr.org/2014/08/whos-being-left-out-on-your-team/)** in this week's HBR for a few team tune-up tips:    (or just paste: https://hbr.org/2014/08/whos-being-left-out-on-your-team/)   ### **Comments and questions?**   ![sales and business plan](https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/file-238635469-jpg/images/business_plans-1-resized-600.jpg)I continue to be an avid student and hopefully an educator of everything about business and sales planning, so if you want to download our Writing the Winning Business Plan ebook, just click **[HERE](https://www.derbymanagement.com/conversion-pages/writing-a-business-plan/?__hstc=203056142.bfa39fccb03ae01c704de2585373cd0e.1415718368327.1418137382505.1418221089213.9&__hssc=203056142.2.1418221089213&__hsfp=1915239704).**   As always, if you have questions, comments or just want to talk through your ideas, ping me, and we can either do an ***"Ask & Answer"*** by email or set up a phone call to take place during my long commute home every night. **Good Planning for 2015! **  ![Jack Derby](https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/file-13639936-jpg/images/signature0003-resized-600.jpg?width=79&height=58&name=signature0003-resized-600.jpg)  **[Head Coach ](https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=56984&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile)**  [Derby Management](https://www.derbymanagement.com/about-us-Senior-Management-Coaching/)***...for 25 years*** **-Sales & Marketing Productivity Experts** **-Business & Strategy Planning Specialists** Box 171322, Boston, MA 02117 617-292-7101 Jack's Cell: 617-504-4222  [![describe the image](https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/file-665692789-png/images/twitter_logo-resized-600.png?width=38&height=30&name=twitter_logo-resized-600.png)](https://twitter.com/derbymanagement) [![describe the image](https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/file-674656770-jpg/images/facebook_logo-resized-600.jpg?width=32&height=32&name=facebook_logo-resized-600.jpg)](https://www.facebook.com/managementcoach?ref=br_rs&fref=browse_search)  [![linked in ](https://www.derbymanagement.com/hs-fs/file-13638968-jpg/images/linkedin_logo-resized-600.jpg)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackderby)  Tags: [Sales Optimization](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/sales-optimization), [Sales Best Practices](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/sales-best-practices), [sales and marketing best practices](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/sales-and-marketing-best-practices), [sales management](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/sales-management), [sales effectiveness](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/sales-effectiveness), [sales enablement](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/sales-enablement), [sales management training](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/sales-management-training), [sales training](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/sales-training), [sales producitivity](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/sales-producitivity), [how to write a business plan](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/how-to-write-a-business-plan), [improving sales productivity](https://www.derbymanagement.com/blog/topic/improving-sales-productivity) ### Subscribe Here! 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