1. Publicly make a bad example of one sales rep.
2. Let someone humiliate one of your sales reps.
3. Concentrate on administrative forms and policy, etc.
4. Try to put on a meeting without a plan.
5. Don’t let the sales team talk or get involved in the meeting.
6. Invite or allow someone from outside the team to talk down to your sales professionals. (Administrative people are usually best at this.)
7. Allow one sales rep to dominate a part of the meeting.
8. Allow the meeting to sink into a “pity party,” concentrating on gripes and whining.
