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What is Sales Enablement Consulting?

Sales enablement consultants help in multiple ways. The evolution of the modern sales organization is characterized by the desire to downplay “features and benefits” and elevate conversations that promote value. Companies whose products are often commoditized have been pressured to reinvent their solutions as critical links in their customers’ supply chain.  And yet, transforming entire sales organizations from transactional selling to value-based and strategic selling is a journey many companies are ill-prepared to navigate.

Sales Transformation Consulting

The goal of Sales Transformation is the migration of a sales organization’s current state to its desired state.

This is often achieved through affecting improvements to the relationship between a business and its customers, using the company’s differentiators to empower its sales force. Aligning sales, management, marketing, and support improves sales performance, drives revenue, and increases client retention.

A sales transformation often begins in one of three ways:
  • Numbers are not meeting expectations and the C-Suite greenlights the initiative.
  • A new sales leader enters and has been called upon to make some changes.
  • Companies merge and the more sophisticated sales organization carries the torch for optimization and improvement.
Sales Enablement
Sales Enablement Consulting

For those companies who haven’t successfully made the case for full-scale transformation, it is common to implement a sales enablement function that is tasked with incremental changes and one-off projects. This responsibility is usually tacked on as “additional duties” for Sales Operations, L&D, and even sales leaders. Sadly, without executive sponsorship, proper expertise, and company-wide commitment, these ad hoc sales enablement efforts are rarely successful.

True Sales Enablement begins defining value in the eyes of the customer, and then ensuring that your salespeople can articulate that value. Conduits include tools, technology, best practices, playbooks, and more. Prioritizing sales enablement will increase your sales team’s confidence, thereby ensuring a win-win for all.

Poorly executed sales enablement may create:
  • a lack of consistency across the sales team, followed by confusion and poor adoption
  • fragmented marketing and disconnected messaging
  • a drop in Sales productivity and morale
SkillSource Learning’s Sales Enablement Consulting Solution

The Sales consultants at SkillSource Learning Partners are equipped to advise clients on matters of sales effectiveness, no matter where they fall on the Transformation and Sale Enablement spectrum. If you recognize that a change is in order for your sales organization, but aren’t sure where to start, it’s a perfect time to contact us. We can quickly identify gaps across your sales function, and guide your sales transformation to help achieve your target business results. Sold on the idea of a comprehensive, global sales transformation, and need a team to scope and execute? We’ll assign a Senior Sales Consultant to take the lead, and execute from there.
Activities That Our Sales Enablement Consultants Typically Perform

Analysis

  • Diagnostic assessment of your sales system and culture.
  • Interviews with your primary stakeholders.
  • Surveys of your sales team.
  • Benchmarking and analytics.
  • Interpretation of data and recommendations.

Creation

  • Sales process design and buyer journey alignment.
  • Talent optimization, organizational effectiveness, and new program development.
  • Sales Compensation and benchmarking.
  • Cost containment and territory optimization.
  • Development of customized play sheets, playbooks, and sales kits.
  • Commercialization and go-to-market strategy.

Implementation

  • Executive briefings and keynote speaking.
  • Upskilling of sales and sales leadership for custom and off-the-shelf content.
  • Adoption strategy and change management.
  • Sales coaching and performance evaluation.
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