Inside Sales Training

EVERY CALL IS RECORDED AND ALMOST NONE OF THEM GET LISTENED TO.

Inside sales is the one function where coaching is easy, and the one where it happens least.

Selling Excellently™, our ten-module B2B sales method, for inside sales, SDR and tele-calling teams. Live online or onsite.

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THE PROBLEM WITH INSIDE SALES SPECIFICALLY

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  1. 1

    Inside sales is measured more than any other function. Calls made, connects, meetings fixed, conversion. The numbers arrive daily and the reviews are frequent.

    Calls made Connects Meetings fixed Conversion
  2. 2

    What almost never happens is anyone listening to a call and telling the person what to do differently. The data says how much. It does not say what was said, and nobody has time to find out.

    Listening to a call Saying what to do differently
  3. 3

    So teams get faster at an approach nobody has examined. Activity rises, qualification does not, and the forecast inherits opportunities that were never real.

Question

How many of last month’s meetings fixed became a real opportunity?

Sound Familiar?

THIS IS FOR YOU IF

  1. 01

    Meetings are being fixed and the quality of what reaches the pipeline is the problem.

  2. 02

    Your team works from a script and performance varies widely among people using the same one.

  3. 03

    Nobody listens to calls, or someone does and there is no structure for what to say afterwards.

  4. 04

    The handover from SDR to account executive carries no agreed qualification standard.

  5. 05

    Turnover is high and each new joiner learns by sitting next to whoever is free.

WHAT THE PROGRAMME IS

Selling Excellently™ is our method for complex B2B selling: ten modules covering the full arc of a deal, from creating opportunities through to closing and holding the account. For inside sales teams the diagnosis most often weights four:

An inside sales team in a training session around a long table
01

Opening without a script

Earning the next ninety seconds, repeatedly, from someone who did not plan to take the call.

02

Discovery on the phone

Establishing the problem and its cost without the signals a room provides.

03

Qualification against an agreed standard

A shared definition of what deserves to enter the pipeline, which is the single highest-leverage change in most inside teams.

04

Handling the first objection

Separating “not interested” from “not now” from “not explained well enough”.

01

Duration

Two days of core training, inside a three to six month engagement.

02

Format

Live online or onsite.

03

Languages

English, with Hindi, Gujarati and Tamil through certified trainers.

04

Group size

Typically 12 to 20.

05

Who delivers

A certified Selling Excellently™ trainer.

WHAT YOU GET

  • Recorded calls turned into coaching, so quality improves alongside activity.
  • Meetings fixed that actually become pipeline.
  • New callers who reach the standard of your best sooner.

THE ADVANTAGE YOU ARE NOT USING

Every inside sales conversation is recorded. That makes this the easiest function in the business to diagnose and to coach, and almost nobody does either.

Where recordings are available we build the diagnosis on them. Not on what the team reports, not on what managers believe, on what was actually said. It is the most accurate diagnosis we run, and it is usually the most uncomfortable.

The Bigger Picture

WHERE THIS SITS IN THE SYSTEM

  1. 1

    Diagnose

    Call recordings reviewed, conversion by stage, qualification standard tested against outcomes.

    Sales Diagnostics
  2. 2

    Build Capability

    Selling Excellently™, weighted to discovery and qualification.

    Sales Training Programme
  3. 3

    Coach the Manager

    A structure for listening to a call and saying something useful afterwards.

    Manager Coaching
  4. 4

    Reinforce

    AI-based practice between sessions, which suits this function better than any other.

    Sales Training Reinforcement
  5. 5

    Measure

    Meeting-to-opportunity conversion, baselined at diagnosis and reviewed in your own system.

    How We Work
Before And After

WHAT GETS MEASURED

Qualified opportunities against an agreed written definition, not lead count.

Connect-to-meeting and meeting-to-opportunity conversion.

Opportunities that progressed past the first stage after handover.

Calls reviewed and coached, per manager, per week.

Time from joining to first independent win.

Retention of the behaviour across new joiners.

Baselined before the programme begins. Targets agreed in writing.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Our team is on a script. Will this replace it?

Usually it replaces the middle. The opening and the close often work. What is missing is a structure for establishing what this prospect actually needs before the product is pitched.

We have high turnover. Is training worth it?

It is the argument for reinforcement rather than against training. A method a new joiner can learn in a structured way is worth more in a high-turnover function than one absorbed by sitting next to whoever is free.

Can you work from our call recordings?

Yes, and we prefer to. The diagnosis is far more useful built on what your team actually says than on what anyone reports.

Our SDRs hand over to account executives. Where does the gap sit?

Usually at the handover, and usually because there is no agreed definition of what qualifies. The same conversation gets repeated and the pipeline inflates.

TWO QUESTIONS, BEFORE YOU SPEND ANYTHING

1

How many calls did each manager listen to and coach last week?

2

What is your team’s agreed definition of a qualified opportunity, and would two of them state it the same way?

IF THOSE ARE UNCOMFORTABLE TO ANSWER

If those are uncomfortable to answer, twenty minutes on the phone is a reasonable place to start. If the gap is not capability, we will say so.

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

  1. A 20-minute call

    You tell us what you are seeing. We tell you what we would look at first, and whether training is likely to be the answer.

  2. A written diagnosis, in about two weeks

    Your own data, and interviews with your salespeople and managers, separately.

  3. A programme only if you need one

    Built on your deals, with measures and review points agreed in writing before anything starts.

Inside sales in short

Inside sales training for SDR, tele-calling and inside sales teams where meetings are being fixed but too few become real pipeline. We use your recorded calls to coach quality, set a qualification standard, and bring new callers up to your best people’s level faster.