Improving sales coaching - Part 1, Coaching best practice-Improving-the-adoption-and-quality-of-sales-coaching---Part-1-Coaching-best-practice

Improving-the-adoption-and-quality-of-sales-coaching---Part-1-Coaching-best-practice

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The speaker introduces a session on coaching in the workplace, especially sales coaching, drawing on her background in tech, sales, and consulting. She begins with a humorous example of “bad sales coaching” to show that true coaching is not just telling people to hit quota. Instead, effective coaching develops skills, competence, and confidence.<br /><br />She asks the audience to reflect on their proudest achievement, then gathers ideas about what makes a great coach: listening, open questions, patience, challenge, humility, confidence, confidentiality, belief, positivity, and authenticity. She emphasizes that great coaches know themselves, show themselves, and build safe, trusting relationships.<br /><br />The talk distinguishes between general coaching, executive coaching, life coaching, and sales coaching, arguing that ideal sales coaching sits in the middle: focused on both performance and development, and tailored to the individual. She also explains why coaching is hard for sales managers: time pressure, their own targets, lack of role models, and a tendency to default to inspection and telling.<br /><br />Using research and models like GROW, Johari Window, and the “performance = potential – interferences” formula, she argues that coaches should remove barriers, focus on strengths, and coach the middle performers for the best return. The session closes by stressing that coaching should fuel motivation, long-term growth, and better business results.

Keywords

sales coaching

workplace coaching

effective coaching

GROW model

Johari Window

performance development

coaching skills

sales management