Sales Training Workshops
One-off sales training workshops may help improve performance of strong self-directed learners. But people who are disciplined to apply learning consistently and accurately to the job are rare. And so one-off training sessions rarely provide the 'silver bullet' many buyers hope for.
Sales increase when performance improves consistently. This requires 'building the muscle'.And no one ever built a muscle from one session in the gym.
One-off workshops have specific benefits listed below. But if you're serious about improved sales performance it's important that you understand their limitations, also listed below.
Further down the page are some questions you should be considering too and typical challenges we address in our workshops and programs.
If you would like guidance on what would work best for your business please get in touch
Workshops are good for:


Workshops are not so good for:
"If you want to teach, to change minds or to cause action, a consistent curriculum is always better than a single event. Drip by drip, with enrollment" - Seth Godin
Questions you should ask yourself
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If my salespeople were leaving customers less than fully satisfied, would I know about it?
What experience are your customers really getting?
As a customer yourself how often do salespeople leave you feeling a bit frustrated? How often do you feel that they don't fully understand you, and when do you begin to lose patience and trust that they'll add value?
If you think it's common for you to feel like this, then consider how many other customers speak to the same salesperson and feel the same.
Does the manager know?
It's also worth asking how often the salesperson's manager knows about the conversational experience the customers are really getting, how it makes the customer feel, and the real reasons why the customer ends up going elsewhere.
The true cost of the problem is hard to quantify because managers aren't usually aware of lost opportunities and why they were lost.
Unfortunately, it's common for salespeople to provide a less than satisfactory service.
The big question is, how likely is it that your salespeople are the exception to this?
How they could be
Do your customers respect your salespeople and trust that your salespeople are doing all they can to improve the customer's business?
Are your salespeople the obvious go-to advisors in your space? Do they explore where value lies for each of their customers and introduce solutions appropriately?
And are you absolutely sure?
This free download can help you identify what further impact your sales team could be making - download "Your Sales Reach" here.
Improve the right behaviours
This is worth your consideration and is perhaps a conversation worth picking up either with your colleagues or with us.
Get in touch (click here) with us if you'd like to explore how your salespeople are actually doing (not the 'hits' that you know about but the misses that you don't) and where you might find immediate improvement.
You might also find our free resource "The One Sales Thing" (click here) useful to help you prioritise your efforts to improve performance.
- Am I intent on a 'sales training workshop' or do I actually want improved sales performance/results?
- Do I want one shift or continuous sales performance improvement?
- How self-driven and self-directed are my team to learn and improve?
- Will everyone attending add value to the solution?
- Will we be trained on up to date techniques that work?
Typical challenges we address in our sales training workshops
Our sales training workshops are...
- tailored following a diagnostic process with you
- bite-sized workshops to half or full-day sessions
- delivered by Mark Moore unless otherwise agreed
- delivered at a location of your choice
- designed to suit your budget (we have other solutions to suit almost any budget - get in touch for more)

Mark Moore
The true cost of average sales performance
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How many opportunities are your sales people missing?
Not spotted
Consider how many existing opportunities are being missed by your salespeople.
That's customers who are looking to buy a solution that you can provide. But your salespeople fail to connect with them and convince them and so the customer goes elsewhere.
Not created
Now add to that how many overlooked opportunities are not being created by your salespeople.
That's where your salespeople could identify opportunities to add value that would make the customer better off than they would be hanging on to their money (ie. better off than keeping the status quo).
Not effectively progressed and converted
Further, add to that how many opportunities are in your pipeline but not being handled and managed as well as they could be. These sometimes begin to stagnate and the customer decides to go with an alternative option.
Most businesses should see missed opportunities in all three.
I wonder what missed opportunities are costing you?
This free download can help you get closer to seeing how much more impact your sales team could be making on your business, given the right support. Download "Your Sales Reach" here.
- What's the true cost of that?
- Where is the leak?
- Why sales improvement only comes when we all lift
- Why setting the ball rolling early makes a big difference