Mark Milsted Iod

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ABOUT MARK MILSTED IOD

Everything comes back to you.The deals. The pipeline. The awkward sales conversation someone on your team should be having but isn\'t.You\'ve hired salespeople. Good ones, even. But somehow you\'re still the one closing everything while they. well, you\'re not entirely sure what they\'re doing.Here\'s what\'s actually happening:Your business lacks three critical pillars:> Clarity: What we\'re actually trying to achieve and why.> Capability: The skills to execute across Sales, Revenue, Operations, and People.> Connection: How these people and functions work together instead of routing everything through you.Without all three, even talented people keep coming back to you with questions they absolutely should be able to answer themselves.How I HelpI work with the Business Waterwheel™—a framework that fixes this systematically.I also work fractionally as a Sales Director. Not the \"I\'ll run your sales team forever\" kind. The \"I\'ll build the clarity and capability so your team can actually own revenue\" kind.Think of me as the person who builds the thing so you can stop being the thing.This works for:Businesses where the founder is still the primary closer.Teams that are capable but still rely on you for every major decision.Businesses where the sales process lives entirely in the founder\'s head.Leaders who want to take a holiday without their phone exploding.What happens when it works:Your team starts making decisions. Deals close when you\'re not in the room. You can actually go on holiday without everything falling apart.This isn\'t about hiring a \"unicorn.\" It’s about building the systems that mean you don\'t need one.Join SME LeadersI write a bi-weekly newsletter on building business maturity — subscribe here:[https://performancemethod.beehiiv.com/](https://performancemethod.beehiiv.com/)