This plan outlines a potential 90-day action plan based on an initial understanding of the Associate Account Strategist role with the SMB sales team at Google in Ann Arbor, MI. It by no means makes assumptions about the immediate needs of the team, instead, the goal of this plan is to illustrate the potential endeavors and achievements, I would hope to accomplish in my first 3 months on the job. This plan is just an outline, I have a longer more detailed document that is available upon your request.
Quick Overview:
Day 0-30 Learn it & Just do It!
1.1 Review all research from the interview process including notes from interviews; 1.2 Speak with the top performing Account Strategist and Associate Account Strategist; Ask pre-written questions about their process 1.3 Establish a strong understanding of initial performance metrics; Create a personal tracker to track progress toward the quota 1.4 Attempt to set up weekly check-ins with the Manager to go over progress and refine daily process
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1.5 Segment the Book of Business - Review advertiser profiles and thematically group advertisers in five categories based on need for campaign optimization: keyword optimization, changes to campaigns, account-level changes, bid strategy and campaign additions; Designate a day for each theme; email all advertisers to introduce myself; Ask big baller advertisers to expect a call from you within the coming days and ask if they have a suggestion for best time; email the more frugal or less responsive advertisers to commend their current advertising and schedule a call; Evaluate effectiveness each day after work and tweak plan for next day
Goals must be stated in measurable terms, i.e., how can you tell you have accomplished that goal? Identify dates for accomplishing each goal.
What are the specific marketing activities – tactics ‐ for the campaign? How will you execute each tactic?
Determine whether the responsibility reports needed to track performance should be created by department, function, or manager, using a costing method of your choice. Based on the costing method you selected, determine the type of data needed to track and evaluate performance to control costs such as cost per unit, cost per hour, etc. Be specific with your examples.
Conclusion: As such, the MCS should have been initially detailed using this reverse order for consistent presentation as well as acting as a catalyst to the planning subsystem of the core control system. In doing so, goals can be set in accordance to the company culture and structure. This enables management to influence the behaviour of more employees by providing clear goals. This makes for a better feedback system because it includes the information of the various departments/divisions and all levels of employment. This allows for attainable goals and prevents the imposition of unrealistic goals, MBO, and the likelihood of fraudulent reporting. To further prevent fraudulent reporting, the measurement subsystem should rely equally on the accounting system as well as non-financial measures (balanced score card).
Review the requirements of advertising brief and organisational business requirements, outline target audience characteristics and prepare a detailed consumer profile report by covering the demographics factors such as age, sex, education, marital status, occupation, nationality, first language, children and income level.
• Track compensation performance and bonus achievement to assure personal and business goals are being achieved. Provide additional planning steps and action items if necessary.
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On the other side, the position of senior market specialists requires identifying industry trends, evaluating new business opportunities, and establishing sales goals. Specialists are team players who develop general market and specific client strategies to help the account executives obtain a sale. Market specialists needs to be strategic in identifying patterns, anticipate problems and provide relevant solutions. They are relator and work as a team to achieve a goal. Their talent of individualization and positive attitude motivates the team to achieve maximized productivity. They are arranger who has to be organized in preparing and executing little possible details by following a standard approach. Illustrating signs of a visionary, Green’s talent of inventive way of working makes him capable to be a successful senior market specialist. However, Green is struggling with his position due to following reasons that he can work on by changing his perspective and managing up:
Describe how the budget is used to monitor work, performance, variation, and team/ division outputs.
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The third is motivation, which supplies motivation for employees to develop and grow in the job by providing benchmarks during the year. The fourth is accountability, which creates accountability for employees and managers/supervisors. This will help all employees prioritize competing projects or initiatives for each individual or department. Managers conduct initial performance planning discussing with employees and provide direction through coaching sections. After the performance planning discussion, employee’s drafts performance plan for the manager’s review. This planning discussion is followed up by the employee finalizing his or her draft with his or her manager. Overall, managers/supervisors at each level develop specific goals that support department or team goals which in turn support the corporate and function/operational group scorecard metrics.
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Specify two (2) ways that you would measure whether current employees exhibit the key job performance behaviors. Propose two (2) methods that you could use to inform employees of the new performance standards.