Diagnose · Sales Effectiveness & Improvement Analysis

See what is really getting
in the way of
sales performance.

The Sales Effectiveness & Improvement Analysis gives you a clear baseline of your team's strengths, gaps, and hidden potential so you can coach smarter, prioritize development, and make better performance decisions.

What is the SEIA? See What It Evaluates
Sales-specific competencies evaluated
Will to Sell dimensions
Sales DNA factors
Core Selling Skills
M+
Global sellers assessed
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Predictive validity
What is the SEIA?

A clear picture of where your sales organization stands today.

The SEIA is a data-driven evaluation of your sales organization. It reveals strengths, gaps, blind spots, and development priorities across every seller and manager on your team.

Instead of relying on gut feel, past performance data, or anecdotal manager observations, the SEIA gives you a structured view of what your team can actually do — and what is holding them back.

This is not a personality assessment.

The SEIA is built specifically for sales. It does not measure personality traits or general behavioral styles. It evaluates the competencies, mindset, and skills that are directly linked to selling performance — the things that actually determine whether someone can and will sell.

Most assessments tell you what people are like. The SEIA tells you what they can do in a sales context and where the gaps are.

What It Evaluates

21 competencies across three critical areas.

The SEIA evaluates sellers and managers across three interconnected areas. Together, they give you a complete picture of what is driving performance and what is getting in the way.

5 competencies

Will to Sell

Will to Sell captures the internal drive and emotional commitment that keeps a seller focused when things get hard. It includes factors like desire, commitment, outlook, and responsibility. Two sellers can have identical skills — the one with stronger Will to Sell performs better more consistently.

  • Desire and drive to succeed in sales
  • Commitment to the sales process
  • Outlook and belief in their ability
  • Emotional control under pressure
6 competencies

Sales DNA

Sales DNA reflects the deeper beliefs and tendencies that either support or undermine selling behavior. These are often invisible — sellers may not even realize these patterns are shaping how they handle objections, close conversations, or respond to rejection.

  • Ability to control emotions in the field
  • Tendency to become consultative when they should be selling
  • Comfort discussing money and budget
  • Willingness to prospect consistently
  • Resilience when deals fall through
10 competencies

Selling Skills

Selling Skills covers the tactical execution across the full sales cycle. This is where you see whether sellers have the ability to open conversations well, qualify effectively, handle objections, present compellingly, and close with confidence.

  • Opening and connecting with prospects
  • Qualifying and uncovering real needs
  • Handling objections without caving
  • Presenting solutions that resonate
  • Closing conversations with clarity
  • Growing existing accounts
  • Following a consistent process
  • Managing the pipeline effectively
  • Using social and digital channels
What questions the SEIA answers

The questions your leadership team is already asking.

The SEIA is designed to answer the performance questions that matter most to the people responsible for sales results.

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"How strong is our sales organization today?"

Get a calibrated view of capability across the team, not just by quota attainment.

"Where are the real gaps by role?"

See where performance is actually breaking down — by individual, manager, and team.

"What is the cost of those gaps?"

Understand the revenue and efficiency impact of underperforming areas before you invest in fixing them.

"What is the upside opportunity?"

Identify where targeted investment would have the greatest lift on performance.

"What should managers coach first?"

Give every manager a prioritized coaching agenda built on real data, not observation.

"What should we build next?"

Connect the assessment findings directly to a development roadmap your team will actually follow.

How it works

From Diagnosis to Development in Five Clear Steps.

  • 01

    Customize the standard

    We work with you to configure the assessment against your sales role requirements, context, and performance expectations.

  • 02

    Complete the evaluation

    Sellers and managers complete the assessment online. It takes roughly 45 to 60 minutes and is designed to feel straightforward, not threatening.

  • 03

    Review the results

    You receive a clear, structured report for each participant showing their strengths, gaps, and development priorities across all 21 competencies.

  • 04

    Coach to the priorities

    Each leader and manager receives a 120-minute coaching session to walk through their team's results, understand the findings, and identify where to focus first.

  • 05

    Turn insight into development

    The assessment findings connect directly into a targeted development plan — so every workshop, coaching conversation, or reinforcement activity is grounded in real data.

Built for Action

Built for the people who need to act on the results.

The SEIA surfaces different insights depending on who is using it. Leaders, managers, sellers, and the broader organization each get what they need to move forward.

Leaders & Managers

Stop managing by gut feel.
  • A clear, calibrated view of team capability across every competency
  • A prioritized coaching agenda built on real data
  • A direct line from assessment findings to development investment
  • Confidence that you are fixing the right problems
  • A 60-minute debrief session included per leader or manager

Sellers

Know exactly where to grow.
  • A clear picture of their own strengths and development areas
  • An honest view of the behaviors that may be limiting their results
  • A development plan that is specific to their gaps, not generic
  • Greater confidence in their own selling approach

The Organization

Invest in what actually matters.
  • A baseline that makes it possible to measure real improvement over time
  • A common language across leadership and management about performance
  • Development and coaching resources focused on verified priorities
  • Better alignment between training investment and business outcomes
Data That Turns Into Action

The SEIA is valuable because it helps people act, not just because it produces reports.

A lot of assessments generate data that sits in a folder. The SEIA is designed to flow directly into coaching conversations, development planning, and prioritized action so the investment pays off beyond the debrief.

01
Identify priority behaviors

The data tells you exactly which competencies are dragging performance down so coaching time goes to the right places.

02
Discuss coaching blockers

The results surface the mindset and DNA factors that make coaching harder, so managers go in prepared.

03
Build role-specific action plans

Every participant leaves with a development plan built around their actual gaps, not a generic curriculum.

What Happens Next

The SEIA is the starting point. Not the end point.

The assessment gives you a clear baseline. What you do with it determines whether anything actually changes. We connect the SEIA directly to development and deployment so the insight becomes action.

Diagnose

SEIA baseline and priorities

Understand exactly where your team stands across 21 sales-specific competencies. Build a data-backed view of strengths, gaps, and coaching priorities.

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Develop

Targeted capability building

Use the SEIA findings to select and sequence the right training programs for each role — so every dollar of development investment targets a verified gap.

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Deploy

Reinforcement in real work

Lock in the learning with AI practice, coaching support, and reinforcement journeys that keep new skills active after the workshop ends.

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Start with a clear baseline.

If you want stronger sales performance, sharper coaching, and more focused development, the first step is understanding what is actually getting in the way. The SEIA helps you see it clearly and act on it with confidence.

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