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HP's Open Systems Initiative - SR1804
Follow-up Phone Call Exercise
Manager's Role Play Instructions
An SR in your district has just completed the training course "HP's
Open Systems Initiative - SR1804". As part of his/her final
assignment, he/she must complete a 3 to 5 minute simulated sales phone
call to a senior executive and articulate why HP should be their
strategic Open Systems partner. He/she has been instructed to perform
this exercise by having his/her manager play the role of the prospect's
senior executive.
Because you are the one that can best coach the performance of your
Sales Reps, please utilize this sales phone call as an opportunity to
coach and develop the skills of your people. Since your coaching
efforts can have the single greatest impact on HP's overall sales
performance, it is important that you help your Sales Reps complete
this exercise by actively playing the role described below.
This course has been extremely successful and the sales representatives
are both excited and anxious to complete this final assignment.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Your Sales Rep will call you to set up a date and time to do this
role play exercise.
2. At the arranged time, the Sales Rep will call you and immediately
assume their role, making their 3 to 5 minute presentation. You
should immediately assume your role as a CIO.
3. Fill out the Evaluation Form while they make their presentation.
4. By the end of the 3-5 minutes, decide if you will grant him/her an
appointment. After you've made your decision, evaluate and coach
your SR on what was successful and what was missing in his/her
phone call. Use the Evaluation Form and your personal observations
for your evaluation. Work with your SR to determine his/her
individual development plan.
ROLE PLAY SITUATION
The premise of the phone call is that you are a Chief Information
Officer of one of the top 500 companies in your country, and that your
company is predisposed to Open Systems.
Your company is a multi-national corporation with over 10 billion in
annual revenues. You recently gave a presentation at a conference
where you described your biggest business need as gaining better access
to the information in your already multi-vendor environment. Your
company is dominated by IBM and you have limited knowledge of Hewlett-
Packard. You are currently in the process of evaluating SUN, DEC and
IBM for funded projects that address your business needs. In general,
your company is predisposed toward Open Systems.
The SR's goal is to get an appointment with you to explain further how
HP can partner with you to address your strategic information
technology needs. They should use the 4-3-2-1 Open Systems message
presented in the Open Systems Initiative training.
Please feel free to ask questions and raise the objections a real CIO
might have. If the SR does not differentiate HP's Open Systems message
successfully, you do not have to grant him/her the appointment. If you
feel his/her call was successful at differentiating Hewlett Packard's
leadership position in Open Systems, grant the appointment.
The SR's call should take no more than 10 minutes (5 minutes for their
presentation, 5 minutes for you to give them feedback), since that is
about all the time they would get in a cold calling situation.
If you are unfamiliar with HP's Open Systems message, or feel you would
like to brush up on the content, copies of HP's Open Systems Initiative
presentation and videotape are available. Ordering information is
contained at the end of the SR's Instructions.
In addition, if you or your SR are unfamiliar with our NewWave
Computing Strategy and Architecture, or the benefits that an Open
System can provide, you can order and complete the NewWave Computing
Technology Fundamentals training course, SR183. Refer to the Field
Education and Development Guide or the Field Training HOTLINE for
datasheets and ordering information.
Once again, thank you for your help in developing our sales team's
capability to articulate HP's Computer Systems strategy.
Good Luck!
CSO Field Education