Professional service · Instructor-led

Technical Sales Excellence Training for Presales & Sales Teams

Instructor-led technical sales training that helps presales, Sales Engineering and sales teams improve discovery, technical qualification, solution positioning, competitive selling, demos, PoCs and executive communication.

Delivered as a two-day engagement for cohorts of up to 12 participants, with the curriculum tailored to your sales motion after a training-needs assessment.

2 days
Instructor-led
≤ 12
Participants per cohort
16
Curriculum areas to draw from
Tailored
After a needs assessment

What the training is for

The programme is built around the skills technical sellers actually use across the sales cycle, from first conversation to technical close.

Earlier, sharper qualification

Improve technical discovery, qualification and deal strategy so teams identify customer requirements earlier and focus technical effort on the right opportunities.

Stronger technical winning

Strengthen solution positioning, competitive differentiation, demos, PoCs, objection handling and executive communication across complex B2B sales cycles.

Something to act on afterwards

Tailored instructor-led sessions with practical exercises, real-world technical sales scenarios, training materials and actionable follow-up recommendations.

Who it is for

Teams that qualify, position, demonstrate and technically win complex B2B opportunities — and want to do it more consistently across the whole group rather than relying on the few people who are already good at it.

How the engagement runs

  1. 1
    Training-needs assessment

    The engagement begins here, so the curriculum can be aligned with your team's experience, sales motion, customer profile and priorities.

  2. 2
    Tailored curriculum

    Drawn from the areas below — not all sixteen in two days, but the ones the assessment showed matter to you.

  3. 3
    Two days, instructor-led

    Structured instruction combined with practical exercises, scenarios and workshops based on real technical-sales situations.

  4. 4
    Follow-up recommendations

    Recommended next actions, plus an optional leadership debrief covering capability gaps and improvement opportunities.

Curriculum areas

The tailored curriculum draws from the areas below. Which of them a cohort covers, and in how much depth, comes out of the needs assessment.

Discovery & qualification

  • Technical discovery and opportunity qualification
  • Identifying customer business and technical requirements
  • Translating business needs into solution requirements
  • Technical win strategy and deal planning

Positioning & competition

Proving the solution

Communication

  • Architecture and solution communication
  • Technical storytelling and presentations
  • Stakeholder mapping and executive communication

Working as one team

AI in the workflow

What this service includes

  • A training-needs assessment at the start of the engagement
  • A curriculum tailored to your sales motion and customer profile
  • Two days of instructor-led sessions for up to 12 participants
  • Practical exercises, scenarios and workshops from real situations
  • Training materials for participants
  • Recommended follow-up actions
  • Optional: a leadership debrief on capability gaps, improvement opportunities and recommended next steps

What it does not include

Unless explicitly included in the agreed private offer, this service does not cover:

  • Software implementation
  • CRM configuration
  • Custom software development
  • Third-party system implementation
  • Managed services
  • Formal certification

Two things worth being clear about

It works without the WinIQ platform

The service can be delivered independently of the WinIQ AI platform, and is suitable for organisations looking to improve the consistency, effectiveness and scalability of their technical sales organisation. It is not a product rollout with training attached, and buying it is not a step towards buying software.

What training can and cannot do

Complex deals are won on trust and relationships, and no two days of instruction changes that. What training changes is preparation: whether a team asks the right questions early, whether a demo is built for the audience in the room, whether a PoC has success criteria before it starts.

So this page quotes no win-rate figures. We have not measured a win-rate effect for this programme, and a number we could not stand behind would be worth less to you than the curriculum above.

Discuss a cohort

Tell us the size of the team, the sales motion and what is going wrong today. The needs assessment starts from there.