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Consultative Sales Coaching for Management

An effective coaching process is necessary for your sales team to be successful. However, most teams do not train or coach their sales managers on the skills needed to be a sales coach. Make sure your sales managers and sales leaders are well equipped to coach their sales teams.

Why Invest In One on One Sales Coaching for Management?

There are three main reasons to make sure your sales managers know how to coach their team via an individual coaching solution:

Adults Learn With Reinforcement

Teaching adults new skills and getting them to change their habits is very difficult. It is not enough to simply train someone and expect them to change their day to day behavior. Sales managers and sales leaders need to be hands-on with their team to make sure that new skills are being reinforced.

The best way to reinforce sales skills is consistent and regular coaching. If sales managers can’t coach, they won’t be able to reinforce skills to change habits and improve their sales team’s performance.

Skills Take Practice

A critical part of adult learning and habit change is practice. Sales reps have to practice their skills in order to retain their knowledge and improve performance. Sales managers need to be well versed in coaching skills that will allow them to practice new skills with their sales team members on a regular basis.

Sales managers need to practice their coaching skills as well. If sales managers and sales leaders don’t get coached on the latest coaching best practices, their team’s sales performance can take a hit.

Tech Stacks Can't Coach

Far too often, sales managers and sales leaders focus first on the tech stack before ensuring that their sales team even has the skills needed to take full advantage of the tech stack. Sales are still conducted between people and conversations are what drive sales. To have good sales conversations, you need proper sales coaching.

While technology can help teams enhance their coaching, it’s the sales manager themselves that have to coach the team. The tech stack can’t do that for you. This is why sales management coaching is vital to your team’s success.

Sales Coaching For Individuals and Teams

Anywhere, Anytime

Either in support of manager coaching efforts or as an outsourced coaching function, Funnel Clarity can ensure that the process of continuous improvement becomes a part of your company’s sales culture.
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Coach-the-Coach

Sales professionals in higher-ranking positions might be responsible for coaching frontline sales managers at their company. However, this can get quite hectic. Funnel Clarity can work with your company on a Coach-the-Coach engagement where we coach and train your sales managers to be effective sales coaches and frontline sales managers.

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Outsource Your Coaching

Sometimes, it is easier for companies to outsource coaching to Funnel Clarity. We can work with each sales rep on a weekly or monthly basis to give sales managers some breathing room to focus on other pertinent tasks.

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Our Sales Coaching Methods

Evaluate Your Current Process

Funnel Clarity evaluates your current sales metrics, sales tools and sales process to determine where improvements can be made.

Form a Winning Strategy

Funnel Clarity trains sales managers on how to establish forward-looking and diagnostic metrics to support focused activities for improvement.

Implement New Processes

Funnel Clarity trains managers on the skills of coaching, celebration and reinforcement, or provide on-demand coach-the-coach support.
We love our clients because they become long-term partners:
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carnegie learning
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symantec
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concur
secom
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omc
legalzoom
hp
netsuite-white
glassdoor-1
carnegie learning
sageintacct
peopedoc
versaterm
symantec
fti-consulting
rockwell
mercurygate
concur
secom
dorman

What Our Clients Say

Funnel Clarity offers EXCELLENT Training for Your Sales Team!
Diane B., Senior Business Development Associate, The Hackett Group

Funnel Clarity offers an excellent workshop for training salespeople. The sessions explains new technology, consultative sales methodology, and customized advice for the audience. Seasoned reps (the ones that "know it all!") and novices both walk away from a Funnel Clarity training with new information, tools and a renewed sense of motivation.

Tremendous Company
Caryn M., Enterprise Business Development, Ultimate Software

I had the opportunity (along with a number of my team members) to work with Funnel Clarity a number of times over the last few years. The information, strategies, and collaboration was extremely beneficial and over the years I have implemented much of what I learned. I found the facilitators engaging and passionate about what they do as well as extremely savvy and persuasive in their skills, the best part being I retained much of what I learned and have successfully put it into practice.

Great, Practical Insights and a Passion to Help Our Team Get Better
Keith B., Director Corporate Development, Software Industry

The team at Funnel Clarity has been a tremendous asset to our organization as we build out our sales organization. Their practical insights, and commitment to helping each rep get better, have been an important contributor to our revenue growth over the years.

Training Jumpstarts Our New Team Members
Chris H., Senior Director Enterprise Business Development, Ultimate Software

We have worked with Funnel Clarity on multiple training engagements. Their prospecting training methodology is very repeatable and perfectly dovetails to our philosophy and what our team needs to prepare them for prospecting success. I would highly recommend working with them.

Well Done Training!
Eran B., Chief Operating Officer, Symphony.com

Practical, no nonsense hands on sales training with a clear methodology and process behind it. The sales team both enjoyed the sessions and learned a great deal.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is sales coaching?

Sales coaching is the process of helping individuals and teams steadily improve performance on what they already know. It comes in several forms: (a) skills coaching (i.e. how do sellers execute what they have learned) and strategy coaching (emphasis on individual deals). There is also the format of one-on-many coaching vs one-on-one coaching.

Sales coaching is often undefined at organizations and/or never done correctly.

What is the difference between sales training and sales coaching?

Sales training is teaching a seller something new, while sales coaching is improving the sellers’ ability to do something they already know. Not recognizing the key difference and where to coach versus train limits a manager’s ability to engage in continuous improvement of the team.

What is Funnel Clarity's sales coaching program?

Funnel Clarity offers one-on-one and one-on-many consultative sales coaching designed specifically for sales managers and sales leaders. The program equips managers with the skills, frameworks, and habits they need to effectively coach their own sales teams: reinforcing new selling behaviors, building a consistent practice environment, and driving measurable improvements in team performance.

Who is this sales coaching program designed for?

This program is built for sales managers, frontline sales leaders, and senior sales executives. Anyone responsible for coaching, developing, and holding a sales team accountable. It is particularly valuable for organizations where managers were promoted for their individual sales performance but never formally trained on how to coach others.

Why does sales management need dedicated coaching?

Most organizations invest in training their sales reps but overlook the managers responsible for reinforcing that training. Without skilled coaches, new selling behaviors don't stick. Funnel Clarity's coaching addresses three root causes of sales performance failure:

  • Adults require reinforcement to change behavior: One-time training is not enough to shift day-to-day habits
  • Skills require consistent practice: Reps need regular, structured practice opportunities that only a capable coach can facilitate
  • Technology cannot replace coaching: Even the best sales tech stack cannot substitute for a manager who can observe, guide, and develop individual reps in live selling situations
What are the two main coaching engagement models Funnel Clarity offers?

Funnel Clarity offers two distinct delivery models depending on your organization's needs:

  1. Coach-the-Coach: Funnel Clarity works directly with your sales managers and leaders, training them to become effective coaches themselves. This is ideal for organizations that want to build internal coaching capability that scales.
  2. Outsourced Coaching: Funnel Clarity coaches individual sales reps directly on a weekly or monthly basis. This model gives sales managers capacity to focus on other priorities while ensuring reps still receive consistent, high-quality coaching.
What does Funnel Clarity's sales coaching process look like?

The coaching engagement follows a three-phase methodology:

  1. Evaluate Your Current Process: Funnel Clarity assesses your existing sales metrics, tools, and process to identify where the gaps and opportunities are.
  2. Form a Winning Strategy: Managers are trained to establish both forward-looking and diagnostic metrics that focus team activity on the right improvement areas.
  3. Implement New Processes: Funnel Clarity trains managers on coaching skills, reinforcement techniques, and celebration practices or provides ongoing Coach-the-Coach support as needed.
Is Funnel Clarity's sales coaching delivered in-person or virtually?

Funnel Clarity's coaching is available anywhere, anytime. Engagements are not limited by geography, making the program accessible to distributed, remote, or hybrid sales teams without disruption to the team's existing workflow.

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