Lift the middle of your sales leaderboard
Sales coaching usually gets spread evenly. Our validated behavioral assessment shows who to coach, on what, so effort goes where it moves revenue.
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Coaching aimed where it counts
One assessment, a development plan for every salesperson.
The challenge
Most sales coaching is spread evenly, or saved for whoever missed quota last quarter. Neither tells you what each salesperson actually needs to improve.
Assess the team
Each salesperson completes our standard behavioral assessment, in as little as 13 minutes, read against 7,000+ salespeople across eight sales areas and three role types.
Play to strengths
Every salesperson gets ways to build on what they do best, plus a watch-out for strengths they might overplay, like challenging a client who doesn’t want to be challenged.
Target the gaps
For lower-scoring areas, practical development activities they can act on this quarter, then a development plan they agree with their manager.
Everything you need to develop a sales team
Insight for each salesperson, their manager and the team, from one validated behavioral assessment.
Eight sales areas
Strengths and gaps across the whole sales cycle.
Overplayed strengths
Where a real strength could start costing deals.
Practical development tips
Specific actions, not generic advice, for each area.
Team analytics
The whole sales team’s strengths and gaps together.
Coaching that lands
Targeted coaching
Managers stop spreading coaching thinly and focus each conversation on the area that will make the biggest difference.
- One priority per salesperson
- Built from their own results
- Shorter, sharper coaching conversations
Right roles
See who’s built for new business, account growth or leadership, and move people toward where they’ll perform best.
- New business versus account management
- Future sales leaders spotted early
- Better internal moves
Whole-team view
Team analytics show where your sales team is strong and thin, so training budget goes where the gaps are.
- Profiles of sales success
- Training aimed at real gaps
- A stronger bench of future talent
What untargeted sales development is costing you
Tell us how you work out what each salesperson needs to develop today, how many people are on the program and your industry. You will see what targeting development with Saville gives back each year in spend you stop wasting and productivity you gain.
A new sales leadership team, working as one
After a demerger, a software organization’s newly formed UK Sales Leadership Team needed a shared understanding of its strengths and challenge areas. It left with a shared plan, then took it to the whole sales organization.
Questions, answered
If it’s not here, ask us. You’ll get a fast response from an expert.
Here, sales development means developing the salespeople you already have: understanding each person’s strengths and gaps, and coaching them where it will make the biggest difference. It isn’t specific to sales development representative roles, though it works for those teams too.
An assessment that shows a salesperson’s strengths and development areas, so coaching can be aimed precisely. Ours is our standard, validated behavioral assessment, read for sales, across eight areas from identifying needs and closing deals to staying positive and being disciplined.
Strengths that start working against a salesperson when they’re overdone. Someone brilliant at challenging objections, for example, may push back on a client who simply doesn’t want to be challenged. The assessment flags these alongside practical ways to manage them.
Yes. Our assessments integrate with more than 150 HR systems and applicant tracking systems, so results sit alongside the people data you already hold.
Yes. The same assessment, benchmarked against the same 7,000+ salespeople, is used to hire for sales roles, so you hire and develop against one standard.
Tell us about the team you’re developing
We’ll show you how it would work for your salespeople and their managers.
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