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One-to-One Sales Coaching. Individual capability lift for sales leaders, senior BDs and founders

Strategic Sales Support coaches individuals, sales leaders, senior BDs, founder-sellers and newly-promoted managers, on their live deals, calls and decisions. Real reviews of real work. The coaching that capable people need and rarely get.

— Who this is for

Who benefits.

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    Senior BDs working complex deals.

    Capable sellers running pursuits where the difference between win and lose is judgement, not effort.

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    Sales leaders without a mentor.

    Heads of sales who manage everyone but have nobody managing them. The role can be isolating.

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    Founder-sellers.

    Founders carrying commercial accountability who need a confidential sounding-board on their toughest deals and decisions.

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    Newly-promoted managers.

    Recent step-up from senior rep to manager. Different skills now needed, and no one to teach them.

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    High-stakes individual pursuits.

    Single deals where the right call materially affects the business, a major customer, a major price decision, a complex negotiation.

— Problems we solve

The patterns we see.

Stuck deals.

Senior pursuits where the seller can't see what's missing. Needs an outside eye to spot the blocker.

Weak calls.

Capable on email and slides, less effective in live conversation with senior buyers. Pattern none of their peers will name.

Unclear strategy.

Knows what to do day-to-day, can't articulate the underlying strategy. Decisions get made tactically.

No honest feedback.

Senior role means no one inside the business gives them straight feedback. Blind spots compound.

Confidence wobble.

Capable people doubting themselves in a stretch role. The confidence problem is real even if the capability is fine.

— Outcomes

What changes.

Commercial outcomes, not activity outputs.

  • Deal momentum.

    Stuck deals move. Decisions made. Specific blockers identified and worked through with an outside perspective.

  • Sharper calls.

    Live call coaching, role-play, playback. Specific behavioural improvements visible in next conversation.

  • Clearer thinking.

    Strategy and rationale articulated explicitly. The participant can teach their own logic to someone else.

  • Lifted confidence.

    Honest, capable feedback in a confidential setting. Confidence rebuilt on evidence, not pep talk.

— Process

How an engagement runs.

  1. 1

    Assess.

    First two sessions: understand the person, the role, the current deals and the development priorities. Honest read-out.

  2. 2

    Set goals.

    Three to five specific development goals, observable behaviours, deal outcomes, decision-quality measures.

  3. 3

    Weekly cadence.

    Recurring weekly or fortnightly session. Live deal review, call playback, decision frameworks, strategic conversation.

  4. 4

    Live reviews.

    Optional: sit-in or recording review on specific high-stakes calls or meetings. Direct, specific feedback.

  5. 5

    Reset.

    Quarterly recalibration of goals, scope and cadence. Coaching evolves as the person evolves.

— Common questions

One-to-One Sales Coaching, answered.

What's the difference between coaching and mentoring?

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Mentoring shares experience: 'here's what I did when I was in your shoes'. Coaching draws out the participant's own thinking and develops their judgement on their own situations. Most engagements blend both, but coaching is the primary mode.

How long does a typical engagement last?

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Three to twelve months. Shorter than three, behaviour change rarely embeds. Longer than twelve, diminishing returns unless goals reset.

Who fits one-to-one coaching?

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Senior BDs, sales leaders, founders, recent promotees, people with genuine commercial accountability who'd benefit from a confidential, senior, external coach. Not for entry-level reps (training and group coaching are better).

How is this different from training?

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Training builds skill against a curriculum, usually in groups. Coaching develops the individual on their actual work, their deals, their calls, their decisions. Coaching has higher per-hour impact for people who are already capable.

Is it confidential?

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Yes. Coaching conversations and content are confidential to the participant. We discuss what's been worked on with the sponsor (if a business is paying) only at the level the participant authorises.
— Let's talk

Right service. Right time.

Book a 30-minute call. We'll figure out if One-to-One Sales Coaching is the right fit, and if not, where to start instead.