Business Skills Tool: Boost business impact with a targeted skills assessment

Measure what really counts to transform your sales force

In an increasingly competitive environment, sales results no longer depend solely on the targets set, but on the skills actually deployed in the field. skills actually deployed in the field.

The tool Business Skills tool enables you to objectively assess the key skills of your sales teams, revealing the levers of performance and directing development where it has the greatest impact.

Business Skills, boost the commercial impact of your teams
Sales process diagram with Business Skills

What is the Business Skills tool for?

Business Skills is an assessment tool structured around high-performance observable and comparableobservable and comparable.

It measures sales skills over the entire sales cycle:

  • Prospecting and making contact
  • Discovering needs
  • Argumentation and value proposition
  • Handling objections
  • Closing and loyalty
      With this approach, you get :
      Sales force diagnostics icon

      A precise diagnosis of each salesperson’s strengths and areas for improvement

      Sales force overview icon

      An overview of your sales force‘s skills

      Action plan icon to improve sales performance

      Concrete avenues for upgrading skills, tailored to business priorities

      Why use Business Skills?

      This tool is particularly useful in the following cases:

      • Commercial restructuring or reorganization
      • Recruiting or integrating new profiles
      • Sales force training and coaching
      • Monitoring managerial performance within a sales enablement framework

      It’s a key tool for Sales Managers, Training Managers or HR teams wishing to to objectify sales performance in ways other than raw results.

      When to use DISC?

      Concrete example of use

      Background :

      A B2B company in the industrial sector is experiencing stagnating sales despite a buoyant market. Sales actions are being carried out, but the transformation rate remains low.

      What Business Skills revealed:

      • Poor quality of the customer discovery phase
      • Lack of mastery in formulating the value proposition
      • Too product-oriented, not solution-oriented

      Action plan implemented :

      • Targeted coaching on weak skills identified via Business Skills
      • Redesign of the sales pitch and training on strategic customer cases
      • Managerial support to establish a feedback culture in the field

      Result:

      A 22% increase in the conversion rate , +15% in sales on strategic accounts, and greater sales autonomy for teams in long cycles.

      Case study: using the DISC tool

      Why choose Learning Partners?

      At Learning Partners, we use the Business Skills tool to highlight key skills that are often invisible in the figures. Our approach is based on over 20 years’ experience in the fieldwith demanding sales management teams, directly linked to corporate strategy.

      • Certified tool proven in international contexts
      • Consultants from the field, with a dual business/coaching culture
      • Can be integrated with other tools: DISC, WPMOT, PTSI
      • A results-oriented approach, not box-ticking reporting

      Turn your salespeople into value creators

      Business Skills gives you the keys to structuring, evaluating and developing your sales teams in a targeted, measurable and sustainable way.

      Contact our experts to find out more and find out if Business Skills is right for you.

      Michael Van Eck, founder of Learning Partners