Webinar: Training Sales Reps - How to Turn New Hires Into Standouts
1. Training Sales Reps
How to Turn New Hires Into Standouts
Ben Brockland
Director of Sales
DataFox
@BenBrockland
Bastiaan Janmaat
CEO
DataFox
@bastiaanjanmaat
2. Agenda
1. First few weeks
2. Tips and tricks
3. Sales playbook
4. Metrics and dashboards
4. Training is more important than ever
Rep Tenure @ Hire
Pat 1.7 years
Alex 3.5 years
George 1.5 years
Amelia 0 years
Brooks 0 years
Team 1.3 years
Source: The Bridge Group
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5. Training impacts recruiting
“What type of a training program do you have in place?”
- Amelia (SDR)
“What do the first few weeks look like?”
- Pat (BDR)
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6. Before the first day
Before
Day 1
• Calendar the whole first week
• Send blog posts & sales playbook
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7. Set the tone for speed, Day 1
First day
• Desk, phone, email, etc… already set up
• Upfront contract with goals and deliverables
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8. First 2 weeks at DataFox
Week 1
• 28 hours - Classroom training
• 10 hours - Call shadowing
Week 2
• Shadowing – Customer success, role-specific, AEs
• Get on the phones
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10. Non sales training
• Engineering – 6 hours / Marketing - 3 hours
• Confidence booster while on the phone
• Enables new hires to find their own answers
• Everyone gets to know the team
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26. Mistakes we made
• Customer success call shadowing
• Calendar ongoing training
• Single POC for ownership on call shadowing
• Deal reviews on major customer wins
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27. Easy wins
• Set the tone for speed early
• Waterfall approach with dashboards on priorities
• Tear sheets on the desk
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28. Q & A
Ben Brockland
Director of Sales
DataFox
@BenBrockland
Bastiaan Janmaat
CEO
DataFox
@bastiaanjanmaat
Notas del editor
-Today we’re going to cover off on a few topics
-Getting a new hire onboarded
-All the way through ramped up and attaining quota
-Read The Bridge Group study a few months back
-They put out great research across all facets of sales development orgs
-Average sales experience coming into an sdr org is down from almost 2.5 years to 1.3 years
-Heavy demand for sales dev orgs is driving this
TRANSITION
-Figures looked aggressive so wanted to see how this looked in our sales org
-Results were bang on, we sit right at 1.3 years as well
-Making our first few hires with tenured experience allowed us to hire out of industry
TRANSITION
-Given how important this is becoming let’s jump into the execution
-Strong candidates from good organizations value strong training
-When their other options are Salesforce + Google know this is an important part of their career
-Strong answer to this question will help ensure the right candidates come in the door
-Training and company rigor starts before they arrive
-Reading list lets them soak all of this in and shifts the mind set
-REMEMBER YOUR FIRST DAY
-Huge psychological importance here > Remember when you started a new job, didn’t know what the deal with lunch was?
-The first day is tough, you don’t know anyone, don’t know what you’re doing, etc
-Last thing a new hire needs to worry about is not having their computer login info, access to wifi, etc…
-Provides the first impression that we’ve been waiting for you and we’re ready to go!
Week 1:
-Engineering: 6 hours
-Operations + Company Vision: 3 hours
-Customer Deep dives, competitors, process, sales: 19 hours
-Rough framework and we’ll get into specifics
-Need to give your new team mate a map
-This is your path to success
-Don’t know what you don’t know
-Allow constant iteration on votes from new hires, especially as
TRANSITION
-As much as you can document still core training that sits outside of it
-all about confidence > You won’t have to answer questions about machine learning or data analytics but equip w/ knowledge
-enable employees to know who to ask what across the other orgs
-create relationships across other functions
-We find this is one of the biggest reasons people join startups instead of google or salesforce
TRANSITION
-As familiarize w/ the org there are small nuances that shouldn’t be overlooked
-These are all things used differently by different organizations
-Some won’t have experience to any of these
-Especially for us when we hire out of industry
-I used to work at Salesforce > could like a post to acknowledge
-How does our org use these
-Especially important in the sales function
-One of the hardest parts is triaging through information
-Really important to make discovery of resources easy
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-Switch gears into how all this surfaces in the sales playbook
-These are the most important chapters of our playbook
-New team mates who did well got up the curve on these quickly
TRANSITION
-We’ll jump into a few of these
-This is the time they will know the least about your company but be talking the most about it
-New team members are having more conversations externally now than at any point
-Important to equip for sales calls but even more important for their network
-What do you say to someone if you want to keep them moving?
-What do you explain to someone in more depth
-Your team has worked hard to win new customers
-Worked even harder to get logos and quotes approved for the website
-Nitty gritty in the sales playbook on why they really bough
-Who the buyer internally was, who else got involved
-Who did we compete w?
-Why did we win?
-Arm them for pattern recognition
-FAQs are going to vary by an org
-What’s important is singling out a few that your tenured reps hear the most
-New hires tend to be excited to have an answer to something!
-Make it easy on them to get over the questions they’ll hear every day
TRANSITION
-Armed w/ all this info how do we now measure and coach to it
-Easy framework to prioritize their day early on
-One first in / first out is complete what next?
-Get through top tier priorities now fill your day
-Importantly provides a framework on how to spend your time to be successful
-Enable reps to see the framework for success
-Despite all the work we’ve put in surely mistakes we’ve made along the way