There's this slight pressure-sentence sometimes thrown out there to us guys in sales.
It's often masked as a joke but it's condescending and irritating, and it's tough to reply to without sounding butt-hurt or on the defensive and it's difficult not to reply at all in many cases.
It goes, for example:
-"This Linkedin premium account is amazing, we should have gotten it earlier"
-"Is that so... How many have you closed thanks to it" (fake smile of superiority)
Or much simpler, during team meetings before passing the baton for the status update from sales:
"So, *name*, how many deals have we closed today"
Consider we have a very long sales cycle, so "how many have you closed today" is obviously a teasing question.
What could be an appropriate way of dealing with it?
It's often masked as a joke but it's condescending and irritating, and it's tough to reply to without sounding butt-hurt or on the defensive and it's difficult not to reply at all in many cases.
It goes, for example:
-"This Linkedin premium account is amazing, we should have gotten it earlier"
-"Is that so... How many have you closed thanks to it" (fake smile of superiority)
Or much simpler, during team meetings before passing the baton for the status update from sales:
"So, *name*, how many deals have we closed today"
Consider we have a very long sales cycle, so "how many have you closed today" is obviously a teasing question.
What could be an appropriate way of dealing with it?
