Coaching - comfort zone or trouble zone?-Coaching---comfort-zone-or-trouble-zone-final

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The speaker describes how sales coaching can drive better performance, especially as win rates drop and differentiation becomes harder. Drawing on his background in sports and coaching, he explains that world-class performance comes from strong habits, clear standards, and consistent reinforcement. He contrasts poor, checklist-style coaching with a more meaningful coaching culture focused on improving people and outcomes.  <br /><br />At IBM, where he works in a large, engineering-led organization, he faced resistance to sales culture and had to lead a major change effort. He promoted the idea of “world-class selling,” built a team of around 100 coaches, aligned them to a common methodology, and worked to make coaching a valued part of performance improvement rather than just governance.  <br /><br />The result: better consistency, a 2.5x increase in win rates, and a shift toward people actively seeking coaching.

Keywords

sales coaching

performance improvement

world-class selling

coaching culture

win rates

IBM transformation