About the Course
As an Account Executive, learn the key skills you need to bring more impact to your customers—including how to have more effective conversations, use best practices in discovery and demo, and orchestrate late-stage conversations to close.
Great for those new to their role and/or those committed to honing their technique.
Best for:
- AEs who are handling opportunities through close
- Managers of AEs
- SDRs rising into an AE role
Blended course format:
- 8 hours LIVE instruction; one 2-hour session each week
- Delivered via Zoom video conference
- Exclusive async access to blueprints, videos, and exercises
- Industry-recognized certification
- Maximum number of learners: 25
Price
$1,500 per seat
or contact us for a private course for your team
Prerequisites
None.
Curriculum
Learners engage with their certified Trainer in an experiential learning format, with 8 hours of live instruction including role plays, breakouts, and recurring revenue frameworks applied to real-world situations. Each learner receives access to our learning management platform for concept reinforcement through videos and frameworks.
The SaaS Sales Method
Sales as a Science Methodology
Learning Objective: Learn how sales has changed and the moments that matter.
The Science of Effective Communication
Learning Objective: Learn how to communicate effectively with customers by changing your tone and asking questions.
Diagnose
Blueprint for a Perfect Discovery Call
Learning Objective: The structure of a professional meeting that motivates customers to schedule next steps so deals do not go dark.
Diagnose with Question-Based Selling
Learning Objective: Learn how to diagnose a customer using question-based selling.
Prescribe
Driving Impact & Urgency with Critical Event
Learning Objective: Create urgency by helping the customer to identify critical events and the impact of your solution.
Prescribe Through Storytelling
Learning Objective: Increase customer buy-in by telling compelling and memorable stories. Use AI to help deliver engaging stories.
Commit
How to Prescribe with a Demo
Learning Objective: Prescribe your solution with a customized demo to drive engagement and urgency to move forward.
Trade vs Negotiate
Learning Objective: How to create win-win trades instead of getting beat down on the price.
Ongoing reinforcement
Get the highest possible ROI on your training investment with ongoing reinforcement via our skills coaching program, library of key content and frameworks, and reporting resources.
The biweekly live sessions of our Skills Coaching program will help your reps truly master the skills they learned in this course, and create behavior change that sticks using hands-on practice and active coaching through real customer scenarios and deals.
Specific skills covered to reinforce the key concepts in this course include:
- Identifying the Decision Makers
- How to Demo
- Impact Questions
- Trading
- Uncovering Critical Events
We also offer access to our enablement content library containing hundreds of WbD videos, blueprints, research materials, frameworks, worksheets, and templates to support teams utilizing WbD’s customer-centric GTM training and methodologies. Enablement teams and managers can leverage this library to help reinforce, coach, and train your teams—improving their skills and knowledge.
WbD Blended Learning Course Format
Course Prep | - | Watch trainer intro video | - | LMS login and prep work 30-45 min | - |
Week 1 | - | Live session 2 hours | - | Online learning prep 30-45 min | - |
Week 2 | - | Live session 2 hours | - | Online learning prep 30-45 min | - |
Week 3 | - | Live session 2 hours | - | Online learning prep 30-45 min | - |
Week 4 | - | Live session 2 hours | - | Certification exam approx. 60 min | - |
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Certification
When you pass the exam at the end of the course, you will receive the following industry-recognized certification that you can post to your LinkedIn profile.
Certified Trainers for this course
Yamini Virani
Antoine Mandy
Chris Allison
Maria Abad Baides
Melissa Huggett
Selena Rice
Lindsey Bye
Training for 8 or more people?
Contact us to discuss private course options.