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Our expertisesSales Training
Hands-on training from battle-tested sales leaders.
Effective sales training is not judged on participant satisfaction but on what changes in their calls the following week.
That is why our workshops rely on no textbook cases: we work on the deals that are actually live, on the objections your reps really hear, and on the one-to-ones your managers have to run on Monday morning.
Practical application on live deals, real objections, and upcoming 1-on-1s.
Two formats: in-house or open-enrolment
We train sales teams that are actively selling, in two set-ups that answer different needs.
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In-house training
The programme is dedicated to a single team and built from its own activity. It is the most powerful format, because it allows for a full upfront diagnosis: we listen to your calls, we examine your pipeline, we read your sales materials. In-house training also makes it possible to work with managers and reps within the same programme, which is the best guarantee that new practices will hold over time.
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Open-enrolment training
Sessions bring together participants from several companies. Open-enrolment training works when you want to train one or two people without mobilising the whole team, or when a newly appointed manager needs to get up to speed quickly. The principle stays the same: every participant arrives with their live deals and works on them. The contrast between different contexts is even an accelerator, provided everyone sells B2B on comparable cycles, which we check at registration.
In both cases, the fixed point is not the format: it is the fact that the content is drawn from real deals.
Turning experience into performance
We don’t just teach theory. We bring real-world experience into every training session — so your team gets practical, proven techniques that work in the field.
Our sales training programs are built and delivered by seasoned sales leaders who have spent 15 to 25 years selling, leading, and scaling commercial teams — many at companies that went public or were acquired.
We’ve run thousands of discovery calls, closed seven-figure deals, coached underperformers into top reps, and rebuilt teams from the ground up. We know what works — and what doesn’t.
Who do we train?
Our programmes are aimed at two populations, often within the same set-up. And that is precisely what makes them work: a manager trained without their team comes back to an environment whose standards have not changed, and they quickly fall back into old habits.
Front-line managers
Front-line managers
This is the critical link in the learning chain. Without it, nothing worked on in a workshop survives beyond a few weeks: it is the manager who sustains the new practices, debriefs the calls and keeps the bar high.
The situation is almost always the same: your best AE was promoted to manager because they sold well, and no one taught them the job. They keep closing their team's deals instead of making their reps better, their one-to-ones turn into number reporting, and their pipeline reviews are inventories rather than working sessions.
Account Executives and SDRs
Account Executives and SDRs
ICs make up the majority of the people we train: discovery and qualification, value selling, objection handling, negotiation and closing, outbound for SDRs.
What does our training cover?
Content is built around the initial diagnosis. Below are the areas we cover most often in sales management training and in sales skills training.
Sales management: performance management, one-to-ones, rituals
The manager's job as it plays out day to day: setting and negotiating credible targets, running a pipeline review that moves deals forward instead of commenting on them, conducting a one-to-one that produces a commitment, having a corrective conversation with a struggling rep without losing them, running a weekly no one leaves while checking their watch.
Sales management is learned by repeating these situations, not by describing them.
Sales methodology: MEDDIC, Challenger Sale, SPIN
Installing a shared sales methodology changes the quality of your deals and the reliability of your forecast, because it gives the whole team the same criteria for judging whether a deal is genuinely moving. We train on the established frameworks, MEDDIC and MEDDPICC, Challenger Sale, SPIN Selling, and we adapt them to your cycle rather than applying them to the letter.
The goal is not for your reps to recite an acronym: it is for them to know how to qualify, identify a champion and recognise a deal that does not exist.
Coaching and call analysis
This is the module that produces the fastest effects. With the team, we listen to real recorded calls (discovery, demo, negotiation) and break them down together: what was heard and what was missed, the questions that were not asked, the exact moment the deal turned.
Above all, this sales coaching teaches managers to run the exercise themselves once we have gone: a manager who knows how to debrief a call no longer needs us.
Objection handling and negotiation
We work on the objections your reps actually hear: your pricing, your best-positioned competitor, the status quo, the "let's revisit next quarter".
Objection handling can be prepared: we build the responses, we test them in role plays, and we document them so that new joiners do not have to reinvent them.
Sales performance and effectiveness
How to read your own numbers and your team's: building a dashboard you can decide from, identifying the stage of the cycle where you are really losing, diagnosing individual underperformance by separating what comes down to skill, to drive or to territory.
This sales performance training extends naturally from our expertise in sales performance management and sales enablement.
Territory planning
Territory planning can be a module in its own right when the topic surfaces in the diagnosis: segmenting the portfolio, ranking accounts by their real potential, allocating effort accordingly.
In most cases, this work belongs to our revenue acceleration engagements rather than to a training programme, and we will tell you if that is the case for you.
Training that sticks
Our approach is highly interactive, fast-paced, and deeply customized. Whether you’re training new reps or upskilling seasoned AEs, we focus on real-life deal scenarios, not abstract models.
Workshops are built around your team’s live deals, objections they actually face, and the tools they use daily.
You can expect:
- Role-plays
- Coaching framework
- Call reviews
- Objection handling drills
- Territory planning sessions
Delivered with empathy and precision
We’ve been in your team’s shoes — and we train with that in mind.
We create safe, energizing learning environments where reps feel supported, not judged. Our trainers know how to challenge without condescending, and how to push teams forward with confidence and care.
Real deals as teaching material
This is what sets us apart most clearly from traditional training providers.
And it starts before the first session!
We run interviews upfront with the manager and their team, we listen to a series of recorded calls, we examine the pipeline as it stands in your CRM, and we read your sales and marketing materials: value proposition, battle cards, market research, sales playbook. This preparation phase lets us identify the real causes of underperformance, which are rarely the ones flagged at the outset. We share them with you before building the programme.
The material comes from the participants: each of them arrives with their live deals and the framing happens at the start of the session. The diagnosis is less deep, the practice just as real.
Every workshop is then built on that material. Role plays use live deals, with the real stakeholders and the real constraints. The objections worked on are last week's. A tailored programme is not a catalogue programme with the examples swapped out: it is a programme whose content is your own business.
In practice, a participant leaves with work done, not with notes: a documented objection library, shared qualification criteria, a one-to-one template, a team dashboard.
Format and delivery
Delivery combines several formats, always geared towards practice rather than presentation:
- Role plays on live deals
- Analysis of recorded calls
- Objection handling exercises
- Work on qualification criteria and sales methodology
- Setting up a coaching framework that managers will then run on their own
Without an interval of practice between two workshops, most of what was worked on is lost.
We always recommend at least one follow-up session after the programme, for the same reason.
Built to drive pipeline and close deals
This isn’t checkbox training.
We design every program to impact the metrics that matter:
pipeline generated, win rate, deal size, and quota attainment.
Your team will walk away sharper, more confident — and ready to perform.
“Thanks to our collaboration we have succeeded in raising our fund, in the sense that we have had a commercial plan to achieve our goals”
Louis Coulon
Co-Founder of CleverConnect
How do we measure impact?
Training providers measure skills acquisition with an end-of-session questionnaire. That is useful for compliance, and says nothing about the sales effectiveness achieved. We measure something else.
Before the start, we record the team's baseline metrics, selected according to the metrics we are aiming to move: pipeline created per rep, win rate by stage, average deal size, cycle length, quota attainment, new hire ramp-up. We revisit them after the programme to put hard numbers on what has shifted. That assumes your CRM data is usable. When it is not, that is often the first thing to fix, and it falls under our expertise in revenue operations.
A programme that moves none of the targeted metrics has not worked, and we would rather establish that with you than ignore it.
Additional services
Frequently asked questions about sales training
Why is sales training important for my team?
Sales training enhances team skills, increases conversion rates, and strengthens customer relationships. Well-trained teams perform better and respond more effectively to market needs.
What are the main objectives of a sales training program?
Objectives include improving negotiation techniques, mastering CRM tools, optimizing sales processes, and developing the ability to understand and anticipate customer needs.
Should we choose in-house or open-enrolment?
It depends on how many people you need to train and how deep you want to go. In-house makes sense as soon as a whole team is involved: the programme is dedicated, it is built on a full upfront diagnosis and it allows managers and reps to be handled together, which is the best guarantee that the practices will hold. Open-enrolment works for one or two people, in particular a newly appointed manager, or when you want to test our approach before committing the whole team. In both cases, every participant works on their own deals.
What type of training is best suited for my sales team?
Training should be tailored to your industry, products, and target customers. A personalized approach ensures each team member benefits from relevant learning.
Which sales methodology do you train on?
On the established B2B frameworks: MEDDIC and MEDDPICC for qualification and champion identification, Challenger Sale for building value and taking control of the conversation, SPIN Selling for the structure of discovery. We do not apply them to the letter: we keep what fits your sales cycle and your market, then install it as a shared language across the team. A methodology that is not shared by everyone is useless.
Do you train managers and reps separately?
Both are possible, but we recommend combining them in-house. A manager trained on their own returns to a team whose vocabulary and standards have not changed, and falls back into old habits. Conversely, trained ICs whose manager cannot sustain the new practices lose what they gained just as fast. In a full programme, we train both populations in alternation, with joint sessions on the points where they connect.
What are best practices for effective sales training?
Combining theory and practice is key, using simulations, role-plays, and case studies. Ongoing training and post-session follow-ups also ensure skills are applied effectively.
How is your approach different from a conventional training provider?
On two counts. First, the people delivering it: our sessions are led by former VP Sales and CROs from B2B tech with 15 to 25 years in the field, and by seasoned ICs whose top performer track record is verifiable. Not by professional trainers. Second, the content: we do not run a catalogue programme with adapted examples, we build the workshops from real calls, real objections and real pipelines. A participant leaves with work done on their own accounts, not with a course pack.
How long before we see results?
Results are generally visible within 2 to 3 months. Effects on behaviour come first, provided a follow-up session is scheduled: that is where the drop-off happens. Effects on sales metrics come next, depending on the length of your sales cycle, since you need at least one full cycle to see movement on win rate. Continuous improvement and practice remain necessary to get the most out of it over time.
What do you ask of the company before the training?
For in-house programmes, four things. Interviews with the manager and their team, to understand the situation from the inside. Access to a series of recorded calls, the most valuable element and the most often overlooked. Read access to the pipeline in your CRM. And your sales and marketing materials: value proposition, battle cards, market research, sales playbook. This preparation takes a few hours on your side and determines how relevant the whole programme will be. For open-enrolment sessions, we simply ask each participant to arrive with two or three live deals they want to work on.
What topics can you cover?
For managers: performance management, running one-to-ones and pipeline reviews, coaching frameworks, team rituals. For ICs: discovery and qualification, value selling, objection handling, negotiation and closing, outbound for SDRs. For both populations: sales methodology, with MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, Challenger Sale or SPIN depending on your context. The exact scope is defined after the diagnosis, based on what it reveals. Sometimes the topic that needs addressing is not the one flagged at the outset.
What happens after the training?
We always recommend at least one follow-up session, because it is in the weeks following a workshop that most of what was worked on gets lost. That session is there to revisit the real situations encountered in the meantime, correct what has been misapplied and consolidate what is working. The deliverables produced during the programme, objection library, qualification criteria, one-to-one templates, stay with you and serve as a reference for your next joiners.
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