Performance management and incentive design for Industrial park developers: Incentives that follow the booking
A plot booking takes months and passes through many hands. The incentive plan has to say, before the sale, who gets credit, or the argument after the booking costs more than the commission.
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In an industrial park, one buyer may be found by a broker, shown around by an executive, calmed by a site engineer and closed by a senior. Each believes they earned the booking. Without a rule agreed earlier, the quarrel is settled by whoever shouts loudest, and the quiet performers start looking elsewhere.
A good plan is short. It names what is measured for sales, for broker support and for site teams, and who counts as the source of a buyer. It also keeps site engineers out of a sales target they cannot control, and rewards them for delivery of dates promised to buyers.
How to set it up
1. List who touches a buyer
Map the path from enquiry to booking, naming broker, executive, support staff and senior. Mark where credit could be disputed so the rule can speak to those points.
2. Write the credit rule in plain words
One page saying who is counted as the source, how shared credit is split and what happens if a buyer returns after a long gap. Share it before the next quarter starts.
3. Choose a few measures per team
For sales, bookings and qualified visits. For broker support, response time and paperwork done. For site, delivery of promised dates. Keep each team to three measures or fewer.
4. Hold a short monthly review
Walk through each live buyer with sales and site together. Note what was promised, what is at risk and who owns the next step, so surprises reach the incentive discussion early.
5. Test the plan on past bookings
Replay the last three bookings through the new rule and see whether people feel it is fair. Adjust before it is used on real money.
Check these first
Before changing anything, find out what is true today. These take an afternoon and use your own records.
- Take the last booking and ask three people who earned the credit, then compare the answers.
- Check whether any site engineer carries a sales target they cannot influence.
- See if broker support staff know what they are measured on.
- Count the measures per team and trim any list longer than three.
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Questions owners ask
Not usually. Reward them for keeping the dates promised to buyers and for handover quality. A sales share blurs their role and may push them to say yes to things the site cannot deliver.
Decide in advance how long the original source keeps credit and write it down. Without a time limit, old enquiries become a source of dispute every quarter.
A quarterly incentive can work if a monthly buyer review sits beneath it. The monthly walk-through keeps people informed and catches stuck buyers while there is still time to help.