Sales Training

Needs Assessment & Strategic Planning

Would you build your new home or office building without any blueprints? Neither would we. At GP Strategies, we believe that the most engaging and effective sales training programs—the ones that truly improve your sales team’s performance—are a result of careful planning. We will work with you to develop a strategic blueprint for your entire training program, or deliver an objective assessment of your current training program.

Plan for results today—and tomorrow.

Taking the time to develop a training program strategy is one of the best investments you can make in your business. This step will help you:

  • Align your sales training program with your organization’s short-term and long-term goals
  • Improve your understanding of the training and non-training needs of your sales force
  • Gain buy-in from individuals and groups who will be impacted by the training
  • Achieve better results, faster
  • Get it right the first time, preventing costly re-work

If your organization already has a training strategy, we will assess your program and make recommendations to gain efficiencies, address emerging issues, and fill in skills gaps so that you can keep your successes moving forward.

Uncover your biggest performance opportunities.

Before beginning to develop any deliverables, we will conduct a needs assessment that profiles your sales force and analyzes performance gaps. As part of this process we will:

  • Assess both your current and long-term performance goals
  • Study a sample of your target audience
  • Conduct a series of interviews with stakeholders and successful individuals within your organization
  • Analyze the data
  • Develop a report outlining our findings and formal recommendations.

Create a training strategy that works.

Using the findings from our needs assessment, GP Strategies will help you set benchmarks and define your training program objectives—from courseware needs to promotions and incentives plans. Then, we’ll use proven instructional design strategies and tactics to help your team acquire the right skills, knowledge, and perspectives in order to be more effective sales professionals.

Contact us today to learn more about GP Strategies’s needs assessments and strategic planning:

E-mail: salestraining@gpstrategies.com

Phone: 888.843.4784

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