
In this lecture you sort the people on your team into three kinds, see what each one is short of in the field, and pick the support each one needs first, so the material you build gets opened instead of filed.
This course is built from six disciplines: sales technique, knowledge management, train the trainers, onboarding, the corporate learning function and performance management.
The map of the course
A dictionary for reading lectures from other fields as work with a revenue team
Three questions to ask after every lecture
A short self-diagnostic that shows which sections to watch first
Download the Field Support Card and fill in one line after each lecture.
Tools in this lecture
Files to download (1)
The main stages of a sale, and the AIDA sequence
SPIN: situation, problem, implication, need-payoff
Features, advantages, benefits, and the expectations list
The value proposition canvas, mirroring, and working with testimonials
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (11)
Models and methods explained (3)
Acquisition channels online and offline, analysed with SWOT
Buyer personas and client avatars
Cold calls, messages and email, qualified with BANT
The five-touch method, social selling, and the elevator pitch
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
Models and methods explained (10)
The ladder of persuasion, and open questions that surface a need
Storytelling in the product presentation
Objections handled with LAER, and with Feel-Felt-Found
The alternative choice and the direct close
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (11)
Models and methods explained (7)
Planning and organising a selling day, with Pomodoro and GTD
SMART goals and tracking their achievement
The Eisenhower matrix, and time blocking
Automating the process, and preventing burnout
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (13)
Models and methods explained (2)
Chatbots and AI for automating client interaction
What a CRM is for: Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho
Automation and data analysis inside the system
Where the technology is heading
Defining and measuring CAC, LTV, conversion and average order value
Analysing the funnel and interpreting the data
Building an improvement plan with plan-do-check-act
Collecting client feedback through surveys, interviews and NPS
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (5)
Models and methods explained (11)
What knowledge management is, and why it matters commercially
Explicit knowledge against tacit knowledge
The main challenges companies hit
Cases from global companies that solved it
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (4)
Models and methods explained (6)
Capture methods: interviews, surveys, working groups
Structuring it into knowledge bases, wikis and ontologies
Tools: MS Loop, Notion, Confluence, corporate portals
Protecting intellectual property and confidential data
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (18)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (6)
Models and methods explained (4)
Ways of sharing knowledge, and what blocks each one
Building a sharing culture, from mentoring to collaborative learning
Platforms: Slack, Teams, knowledge bases
Communities of practice, and the role of knowledge leaders
Tools in this lecture
Models and methods explained (5)
Principles of applying knowledge inside real work processes
Integrating the system with the rest of the business
Extraction models: case studies and best-practice analysis
Recording mistakes, and running retrospectives
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (10)
Models and methods explained (4)
Indicators and metrics of effectiveness
Assessment methods: surveys, engagement and knowledge indices
Feedback loops into the system
Monitoring over time
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (4)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (2)
Models and methods explained (1)
Developing and implementing the strategy
Knowledge leaders, and getting employees involved
Building a culture of continuous learning
Strategic decisions taken from data
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Models and methods explained (1)
Structure, content, style, support and the difficulties
Dale's Cone — the learning pyramid
The formats and types of training on the market
How training effectiveness is evaluated
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (1)
Models and methods explained (7)
Stage one of the cycle: problematisation
Pre-training preparation, and the optimal number of participants
What the room should look like, and why the breaks matter
How to design the programme itself
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (13)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (2)
Models and methods explained (2)
Visual material, and the timetable
Working styles of the trainer
Stages two, three and four: reflection, conceptualisation, practice
A model for creating a training design
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
Models and methods explained (3)
Introducing group norms, and warming a group up
Managing group dynamics through the acquaintance and role-distribution stages
Sustained group work, and closing the group
Facilitation against moderation, and dealing with objections
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Models and methods explained (2)
The structure of a business training, and how to introduce yourself
Aphorisms, metaphors and parables
Setting individual aims for participants
Teaching theory, the five rules for sub-groups, and how to end
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
What changes when the training goes online
Running webinars effectively
Technical solutions
Keeping contact with a group you cannot see
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (7)
The SHRM effective onboarding model, and why to invest at all
The goals of adaptation, and its economic outcome
How Google onboards, and gamification
A checklist for onboarding, including remote hires
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (4)
Models and methods explained (2)
Auditing the current state
Defining the desired state, and analysing the gap
Setting the programme up as a project
The onboarding package from beginning to end
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (5)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (7)
Where the process actually begins
Preparing the workplace, and informing the new hire
The template letter to the team and the company
Training managers and mentors, and the new employee handbook
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (5)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (3)
How to meet a new hire
What an effective first day contains
The separate roles of the people function, the manager and colleagues
The first-day checklist
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (3)
Onboarding interviews with the employee
Getting feedback from the manager, and employee questionnaires
Team dynamics and integration
Appointing a mentor, the adaptation workshop, and the 30-day survey
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (10)
Models and methods explained (2)
Continuous feedback through the period
Questionnaires at the end of adaptation
Closing the probationary period, and the 90-day survey
Team events, and what comes next
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (14)
Models and methods explained (3)
What a corporate learning function is, and why a business needs one
The competency model behind it
How to audit what already exists
How to develop the strategy, and how to budget it
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (8)
Models and methods explained (8)
The competencies of a successful trainer
Choosing one internally against hiring on the market
How and what to train the trainers themselves
Assessing them, and how to pay them
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Models and methods explained (5)
Analysing business needs at different levels
Justifying the cost of training
Presenting the value of the function
Where the function actually creates value
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (16)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (5)
Models and methods explained (7)
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Your best rep knows something your other eleven do not. Right now that knowledge is stored in one head and is free to walk out of the building. Here are 475 tools to build the function and not just a workshop: 306 ready-to-use procedures, question lists, templates and checklists, 122 models and methods, 42 services and apps shown on screen and 5 working files.
Open a lecture, take the tool, interview one top performer this week.
Training that changes nothing
You booked the workshop. Everyone said it was useful. Three weeks later the calls sound the same as before, because nothing was designed from a result and nothing was reinforced afterwards. Your new hire is in month seven and still below quota, and nobody can say whether that is normal, because ramp time was never measured. The playbook exists: it is a slide deck in a shared folder that four people have opened. And when your top performer resigned last year, the method left with them.
What changes after this course
The knowledge of your best reps is written down and sits where the others work. New hires go through a planned first 90 days, and you know how long the ramp takes. Training starts from the result and is reinforced after the room. The enablement budget has a case behind it. And performance is reviewed by rules that end in a clear decision.
What is inside: 475 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
Where the tools are
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe. I am also a founder and lead the strategy of my own academy.
I come to enablement from the side of learning and people, and that is the angle of this course. At Wargaming I organised training for managers, and one of them was very sceptical. I asked why. He said he had once been pulled into a training for managers where they folded paper doves, like origami, and he understood he did not need that. The trainer had wanted to warm the group up and chose exercises that advanced business managers simply did not accept. At iDeals I made teaching others part of the leaders' development programme. One of them, the head of front-end, was preparing for a conference and said he had not expected that preparing a talk would make him understand so deeply a subject he already worked with.
How to use the course
Start with the first lecture and its field support card. If your problem is new hires, go to the onboarding sections. If it is the knowledge of your best people, go to knowledge management and the playbook. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
Where to start
Name your best rep. Open the lecture on capturing sales knowledge, take the expert interview and book an hour with that person this week. Write down three things they do that the others do not. That is the first page of your playbook. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.