For managers
The coaching conversation
Using the platform to make your one to ones better rather than to replace them, and what to do with a rep who is not using it.
The platform does not replace the coaching conversation with your reps. It changes what you spend it on.
Without it, most of a one to one is spent finding out what happened. With it, you arrive already knowing where the capability gap is, and the hour goes on the gap.
#Before
Fifteen minutes with the manager coach.
#During
Bring one gap, not five. A rep who leaves with one thing to work on changes it; a rep who leaves with five changes none of them.
Point at the evidence rather than characterising them. "On three of your last four rehearsals you moved to the solution before you had a number for the problem" is a different conversation from "your discovery needs work", even though both are the same finding.
Do not tell a rep their coaching sessions are unreadable, because that is not true and it will not survive contact. Tell them what is: you see their roleplays, their call transcripts and their scores, and what they work through with their coach reaches you as what they are working on rather than as a transcript.
Say it in the first of these conversations. A rep who is quietly guessing at the answer always guesses somewhere worse than the truth.
#After
Give the rep something specific to take back to their own coach. "Go and ask your coach to show you what quantifying impact sounds like on the Contoso deal, and bring me what it gave you" is actionable in a way that "work on your discovery" is not.
It also does something useful structurally: it puts your coaching and their coach on the same thread, so the next session picks up where your conversation ended.
#The rep who is not using it
Almost always one of three causes, and they need different responses.
Opened it once with nothing real in hand, got a generic answer, concluded it was generic. The fix is to sit with them for one session on a real deal of theirs. It is fifteen minutes and it usually settles it permanently.
The fix is the paragraph above, said explicitly.
A rep in a heavy delivery stretch is not a problem. Look at the month and at whether their deals are moving, rather than at a weekly usage line.
A dead button, a call that will not start, a roleplay they cannot reach. All fail quietly. Ask before you assume reluctance. See Troubleshooting.
Last updated 3 September 2026
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