We do not deliver a training. We build a journey with you: it starts from your real situations, it is tested before it is rolled out, and it keeps living long after the last session.
Our values are not a statement of intent. Each one shows up at a precise step of the journey.
Making these things measurable does not change our values. It accelerates what they produce: a deeper and faster transformation, and an autonomy that sustains itself.
A Valorize journey always follows the same frame. What changes from one client to the next is the content of each step, never the order.
A conversation with the sponsor and the people who own the project: what the company has to achieve this year, what is blocking today, what has already been tried. When the project calls for it, a steering committee is set up from the start, with the managers concerned and, depending on the case, sales enablement.
What this saves you: a programme that answers a training request instead of a commercial issue.
We interview a representative sample of future participants individually. Six interviews are usually enough to surface the real friction points. From them we draw a synthesis, a reading of your competitive position and, where useful, a map of the decision-making unit inside your clients.
What this brings beyond content: a feeling, and the beginning of a relationship. On the day of the training, participants know they were listened to before anyone spoke.
The trainer works on your market, your ranges, your cycles, your margins and your counterparts. Not to recite your brochure, but to be able to challenge a value proposition or a negotiation preparation with the same demands as one of your buyers.
What this changes: the trainer speaks your language from the first hour.
The journey is written from what we heard. The cases we work on are your cases: your live deals, your accounts, your value propositions. When several segments are involved, each group gets a trainer briefing adapted to its reality. This is where the co-creation workshops with your managers take place.
What this avoids: the textbook case nobody takes seriously.
When the complexity justifies it, a pilot group, usually one of the first groups, goes through the training at full scale before the rollout. Immediate debrief with the managers, feedback report, participant survey, then adjustment.
What this guarantees: the programme rolled out to all your teams has already been tested and corrected.
The rollout runs group by group or segment by segment, in interactive sessions where people work standing up, in sub-groups, on real situations. Each session feeds the next one: a new objection, a formulation that works better, a case that resonates more. A global training report is produced for each population.
What this produces: the last group gets a better training than the first, and you can see it.
After the training, the work continues. Keep-It-Alive sessions with the teams, exchanges with managers, team leaders and sales enablement in the following weeks and months, individual field coaching, availability on specific opportunities, support during a deal, a sales cycle or a negotiation. Then an annual review and a roadmap for the following year when the relationship settles in for the long run. And depending on the tools you have and the framework you set, that anchoring can also become measurable, over time.
What this avoids: the training that evaporates in three weeks.
Behaviour change is the hardest thing to measure in sales training. Many programmes give up on it and fall back on satisfaction scores, others promise a revenue effect that nobody can isolate. We take the problem from the other end: we look at the conversations themselves, with the tools your teams already have.
What is workable in your organisation is not a technical question. It depends on your internal policies, your acceptable use rules, the agreements you have with your teams and their representatives, the features actually available in your tools, and the tools you might choose to put in place. That is where we start, and we build what is possible inside your framework rather than rolling out a standard set-up.
We do not supply these tools. What we bring is knowing them because we use them every day, and knowing how to embed them in a process. Frameworks that carry your method, routines that hold after the training, and a defined place in the programme.
Live, during the meeting, when the context and your rules allow it. Just afterwards, in the car, going back over handwritten notes out loud while everything is still fresh. Or later, cold, on an account someone wants to prepare properly.
The second is the one we usually advise starting with. Five minutes of dictation, and what would have stayed in a notebook becomes usable: what was said, what was sensed, what still needs checking, what was promised and by when.
The useful comparison is not with a recording, it is with what happens today: a report written three days later, because it has to be done. Five minutes after the meeting, memory is still intact: the tone, the hesitation about budget, the sentence slipped in on the way out, what was promised without thinking. Three days later, what is left is the main facts and a summary that looks like every other one.
And it is not only a better written report. The same dictation can produce the report for the client, the note for the CRM, the debrief for oneself and the preparation of the next meeting. What used to be four separate tasks, each pushed back to later, becomes a single five-minute action whose outputs you review.
It does not replace listening to a real conversation, and it does not pretend to: what you get is the salesperson’s reading of the meeting, not the client’s exact words. It is often a first step, and it has one decisive advantage: it works everywhere. Recording real conversations depends on rules that change from one country to another, and sometimes from one industry to another.
Whether a conversation was recorded or simply told out loud afterwards, a tool can draw feedback from it for the salesperson: how they used the method, what they could have done differently, the topics they opened without digging into them, the ones worth raising next time.
It is the trainer’s debrief, available after a meeting and no longer only on training days. Depending on what you already use, it comes from your conversation platform or from your company assistant. We recommend that this feedback stays with the salesperson, and we set that as the starting rule.
The debrief helps on a single meeting. Progress, though, is read over time. At regular intervals, the salesperson receives a reading of their own conversations that compares with the previous period instead of starting a new diagnosis each time: their current priorities, how their meetings are evolving, what they prepare beforehand and what they follow up afterwards, the areas they explore little or not at all.
Frequency is not universal. It depends on what you are trying to move, on what you measure and on the ambition you attach to it. A simple habit shows quickly, a posture takes longer.
Their manager receives a summary of a different kind: aggregated, anonymised, on what the team explores, what it avoids, and what deserves collective work rather than an individual reminder. The rule we set at the start, and recommend keeping, is that individual feedback does not travel upward by name.
Measuring is not the goal. What measurement produces is faster progress, because everyone sees where they stand without waiting to be told.
Your managers build the journey with us, at step 4. They leave with the vocabulary, not just with the schedule. And when they wish to, they co-facilitate part of the sessions.
People work standing up, in sub-groups, on real situations. The trainer speaks for a minority of the time.
Short sessions after the training to reactivate what was learned, at the moment the field puts it back in play.
At a client, on a call or in negotiation preparation. The trainer watches, then debriefs one to one.
This is not a fifth format, it is something that runs across the four. From the first hours of a training, the tools you already own come into the exercise, and they come back out loaded with what we have learned together: your vocabulary, your offers, your segments, and what you want to see change in your teams. Every format is strengthened by it, none of them is altered.
We are an advisory and training firm. The tools are yours: you choose them and you buy them. We use them daily, and we know how to turn them into routine.
See it in a little more detail: your people, your processes, your methods, your tools, and how they drive each other.
A programme that applies these seven steps
Six months of application on your live opportunities and negotiations.
It is the programme where anchoring and applied follow-up take up the most room: one individual session every two weeks per person, client meetings we attend, and behaviours counted before and after.
See the programmeTwo situations we meet often. They are anonymised and reconstructed, and they point to no client in particular.
The issue: the annual negotiation with the retail chains, run every year by the same people, with margins that keep shrinking. A steering committee brings together the sales director, two managers and sales enablement. Eight intake interviews reveal that the problem is not negotiation technique, but value, insufficiently established before the price discussion. The programme is rebuilt around that sequence: value first, negotiation second. A pilot group tests it, two cases are replaced. Rollout by customer segment, then an annual review before the next campaign.
The issue: commercial conversations that stay at the level of the expressed need and never reach the decision maker. Managers are briefed upfront so they know what they will have to sustain afterwards. Six intake interviews, plus a map of the decision-making unit inside three representative clients. The journey works on questioning and posture before technique. Rollout in waves, in the mother tongue of each group, with in-deal support on real opportunities during the following three months.
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