Manager Coaching

YOUR MANAGERS WERE PROMOTED FOR SELLING WELL. NOBODY TAUGHT THEM TO DEVELOP SOMEONE ELSE.

They are good at the job they used to do. Coaching is a different job.

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WHAT IT IS

A programme that equips frontline sales managers to run a structured debrief after any significant customer conversation, and to coach the specific behaviour each salesperson needs, using the IMPACT™ framework.

It runs inside the reviews your managers already hold. We do not add a meeting.

A sales team working through a session at a table
The Facts

HOW IT WORKS

01

Duration

Typically a two to two and a half hour core session, then monthly coaching support across the engagement.

02

Format

Onsite or live online.

03

Languages

English, with Hindi, Gujarati and Tamil available.

04

Group size

Works best with 6 to 15 managers.

05

Who should attend

Frontline sales managers, branch and regional managers, team leaders, and founders who manage salespeople directly.

06

Who delivers

A certified Selling Excellently™ trainer.

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What participants leave with

The IMPACT™ structure, a development-stage model for reading where each person on their team actually is, and a one to two page workbook they can use from the following week.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INSPECTING AND COACHING

Inspecting

A manager asking “what stage is this opportunity at?” is inspecting.

Coaching

A manager asking “what happened in your last customer conversation?” is coaching.

The first produces a report. The second produces a different conversation next week. Most managers were only ever asked for the first, and were never equipped for the second.

The development-stage part matters as much as the framework. A manager using one coaching style for everyone will be useful to about a third of their team. Reading where each person actually is, and matching the style to that, is what makes the difference measurable.

WHAT YOU GET

A one-to-one coaching conversation between a sales manager and a salesperson
01

How deals are won

Managers who improve how deals are won, not only report whether they were.

02

A narrower gap

A narrower gap between your best and your average salespeople.

03

Faster first wins

New joiners who reach their first independent win sooner, because someone is coaching them.

04

Training that lasts

Training that lasts, because someone holds the standard every week.

Sound Familiar?

THIS IS FOR YOU IF

  1. 01

    Your managers were your best salespeople and nobody trained them to manage.

  2. 02

    Reviews cover whether the number was hit, not how it was hit.

  3. 03

    Your managers rescue deals on joint visits instead of developing the person.

  4. 04

    Training has been delivered before and faded, because nobody held the standard afterwards.

  5. 05

    The gap between your best and average salesperson is wide and nobody can explain it.

HOW IT RUNS

A group of sales managers in a coaching workshop

The core session is short and mostly practice. We teach the structure, then spend the majority of the time on live paired practice, because a framework introduced and not practised is forgotten by Monday.

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Teach the structure

The core session is short and mostly practice. We teach the structure first.

02

Live paired practice

The majority of the time goes on live paired practice. Every manager runs a real debrief in the room before they leave.

03

Monthly support

Afterwards, monthly support on live opportunities, so the structure survives contact with a busy quarter.

Before And After

WHAT GETS MEASURED

Coaching conversations held, against reviews conducted.

Live customer conversations a manager observed or joined, per month.

Whether a manager can describe what was said in a salesperson’s last significant conversation, not only whether the deal progressed.

Spread between the best and average performer on the team.

Time for a new joiner to reach first independent win.

Baselined before the programme begins. Targets agreed in writing.

What changes first is usually the manager’s week. Hours that went into end-of-month reviews start going into conversations that can still influence a deal in progress. That reallocation compounds weekly, where a training day fades.

The Bigger Picture

WHERE THIS SITS IN THE SYSTEM

  1. 1

    Diagnose

    Find where deals are being lost before anything is designed.

    Sales Performance Diagnostics
  2. 2

    Build Capability

    Selling Excellently™.

    Sales Training Programme
  3. 3

    Coach the Manager

    You are here.

  4. 4

    Reinforce

    Monthly clinics on live opportunities.

    Sales Training Reinforcement
  5. 5

    Measure

    Baselined at diagnosis, reviewed against your own data.

    How We Work

This is the phase that decides whether the others survive. Training without it fades in a quarter.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Our managers carry their own accounts. Will they have time?

That is the normal case and the programme is built for it. The cadence fits a manager who is also selling, and the structure runs inside reviews they already hold rather than adding a meeting.

Can this work without the full sales training programme?

Yes, and some clients buy it alone. A manager who can coach improves a team whether or not that team has been through a programme. It works better alongside one, because then everyone is coaching towards the same standard.

We are a family business and the founder coaches everyone. Does this apply?

Often it is exactly where we start. Extracting what the founder does and making it teachable is the work, and it is the only route to a business that can grow past one person’s calendar.

How long before a manager is actually coaching?

They run a real debrief before they leave the room. Whether it holds depends on the months afterwards, which is what the monthly support is for.

Does the sales leader need to be involved?

Yes. Managers coach what their own leader asks about. If the leader keeps asking only about stages, the coaching stops.

THREE QUESTIONS, BEFORE YOU SPEND ANYTHING

1

What do your managers ask about in the month after training?

2

When did a manager last describe to you what was said in a customer conversation, rather than what stage it reached?

3

Why is your best salesperson better than your average one?

IF THOSE ARE UNCOMFORTABLE TO ANSWER

If those are uncomfortable to answer, twenty minutes on the phone is a reasonable place to start.

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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.

Manager coaching in short

Sales manager coaching equips your managers for both halves of the job: developing their people and running the number. A two to two and a half hour core session covers the IMPACT™ debrief, developmental leadership, pipeline management and forecasting, followed by monthly support inside the reviews they already hold.

Not sure where to start? Twenty minutes on the phone is a reasonable first step.

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