Your salesfloor in particular, need better support. They deserve respect and proper guidance and direction because they’re the ones going out every day to win business and generate direct ROI. When that group feels undervalued or poorly managed, the entire commercial engine suffers.
Right now, there’s an expectation that L&D will fix foundational issues that stem from unclear leadership, unclear process, and inconsistent standards. You can’t hire people, fail to give them structure or strategy or direction, and then place the responsibility on L&D to compensate for that. And while L&D is doing what it can, the coaching style being used is often painfully patronising, unhelpful, and frankly adds very little tangible value. You have incredibly capable salespeople with real proven potential but the environment needed to bring out their best simply isn’t there everyone is saying they need the support and you're bought in to survive
The absence of direction, support, and recognition is killing momentum on the sales floor. People are being called out or criticised unfairly, which is demoralising and there’s a clear sense of favouritism toward long standing employees from the old Signify era. It’s noticeable, and it undermines the newer talent who have come in with strong track records but are struggling to succeed here. When consistently high performers from previous roles are suddenly underperforming across the board, the problem isn’t the people the problem is the system and the business support team
At some point, the leaders need to take a step back and ask What’s actually going wrong here? Because the potential is there but without honest reflection and structural change, it’s going to continue to be wasted