Helping you design and implement your sales strategy
Sales is such an incredibly important part of your business. If you can’t sell your product or service, then you don’t have a business.
Are you a business that is expanding and hiring more salespeople?
Do you find that your sales strategy and sales process are not defined clearly enough?
Is your sales strategy and sales process not being implemented effectively to ensure appropriate growth?
We understand how this happens and also what you might want to focus on, in what order, to ensure the ongoing success of your business – and most likely your passion!
Consulting Services
At Neural Networks, we specialise in sales consulting solutions that are tailored to your organisation’s unique needs. Our services are designed to build strong, customer-centric sales teams, optimise processes, and ensure that your salespeople thrive in their roles. We work closely with leadership to align sales operations with business objectives, ensuring that every aspect of your sales strategy—from culture to recruiting—is built to drive measurable success.
Your customers expect more, and a customer-centric culture is the foundation for meeting and exceeding those expectations. We work with your leadership team to build a sales culture that aligns with the customer journey, fostering deep relationships, increasing satisfaction, and boosting long-term retention.
- Use the Customer Experience Deck to clearly articulate what you want your customers to feel (and not feel) when engaging with you.
- Design customer centric conversations and metrics.
- Align sales behaviours with customer needs.
- Implement training to embed customer-centric values.
- Design coaching frameworks for leaders to embed customer centric conversations.
and customer conversation mapping.
Effective sales operations require a clear and repeatable process. We work with you to design and optimise your sales processes to ensure your team can consistently hit targets while improving productivity and efficiency.
- Map the current state of your sales process.
- Identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
- Design a scalable, optimised sales process that aligns with your business goals.
- Focus on both lead and lag indicators within the design.
- Design an assessment and coaching framework to help embed the desired sales process.
The right roles and competencies are key to a successful sales organization. We can work with you to define the structure and skills your team needs to outperform in today’s competitive landscape.
Using an approach known as Accurate Role Perception, we work through a process which helps you to become clear on:
- The critical activities for each role,
- The behaviours associated with those activities,
- The capabilities required to demonstrate those behaviours, and finally
- The appropriate KPIs.
This provides clarity for the role incumbent as well as the leader about exactly what is required of the individual, enabling them to succeed.
To drive consistent performance, your sales team needs clear accountability and measurable goals. We can work with you to create a high-performing sales team structure and set the right KPIs to drive success.
- Analyse and optimise your current team structure.
- Define individual and team KPIs that align with business objectives.
- Implement performance measurement systems to track and improve outcomes.
- Build coaching capability to help people grow and meet their KPIs.
Our sales recruitment process helps to identify salespeople who will succeed in your specific sales environment. We work with you to articulate the unique skills and attributes required of a salesperson in your organisation and begin the candidate assessment process. The sales recruitment process ensures that only those salespeople with objectively identified skills, strengths, mindset, and environmental compatibility will be put forward for an interview – saving you effort, time, and cost.
Before you begin reading resumes or speaking with applicants, we recommend using a sales candidate assessment. Our expert sales recruitment consultants will also support you to "park existing bias" and better screen for values and cultural alignment—allowing you to move away from purely behavioural-based screening.
We can:
- Create and design a compelling SEEK ad that differentiates you from other roles.
- Design a phone screen interview process to streamline the applicant screening process.
- Design a first-round interview guide using sales evaluation, experiential interview techniques (including sales role play), cultural and values alignment.
- Handover sales role play and scoring criteria, including documents for candidate, salesperson and assessor.
Solutions Showcase
Solution 1 - Sales recruitment
The challenge
- Better way of selecting suitable sales candidates
- Use of a tool that can more accurately and consistently predict sales success
- A tool that can be used for capability building for successful candidates
- Better screen for values and cultural alignment.
Our solution
- Define the role capabilities
- Mapping of required capabilities against the OMG Sales Evaluation
- All candidates objectively screened using the OMG Sales Profile to identify salespeople who would be successful in the specific sales environment
- NNC provides a short list of candidates who have been screened several times to meet your selection criteria
- Phone screening report assisting with the understanding of the candidate's strengths and their ability to meet your requirements
- Assistance with the interview process - using a combination of testing, interviewing, experiential activities and role plays to establish a candidate’s suitability for a role.
- Report on the successful candidate’s sales strengths, skills and growth areas
Solution 2 - Sales Strategy
The challenge
- Create business sustainability and growth
- Streamlining the business and establishing a stronger pre-sales market.
- Creating greater work/life balance for Directors.
- Challenges finding the right people that can work in alignment with the ideal culture
Our solution
- Strategy session to define the ‘ideal’ structure of the business.
- Team structure mapping to make sure the right people are in the right roles.
- Agree on the desired growth strategy.
- Establish role priorities and KPIs for key organisational roles.
- Individual sales profiling and debrief to help identify sales potential/ role fit.
- Leadership development program, including emotional intelligence profiling, 1-2-1 coaching
- Leader session to map the conversational sales process and agree sales activity targets
- Agree sales activity targets to provide lead indicators (against revenue targets) that can be proactively managed.
- Facilitated sales development program to provide a consistent sales experience
Solution 3 - Customer-centric sales
The challenge
- Ambitious growth targets requiring stronger business development culture
- Traditionally good account managers now required to prospect for new business
- Need to be better at prioritising which customers to focus on and what activities will best help them achieve growth goals
- Team missing a consistent approach to BD, with some team members not having a clear value pitch and lacking the confidence to prospect
Our solution
- Communication sessions to create clarity and buy-in
- BDM and Leader Business Development Profiling and 1-2-1 debrief sessions
- Data interpretation session with leaders to explore profiling data and implications
- Operational embedding focusing on BD activity management, lead generation planning and BDM role clarity
- BD coaching program, including online and face-to-face components
- Workshops covering development areas, identified from profiling, including prospecting mindset, lead generation, the psychology of customer satisfaction and the criteria conversation
- Embedding activities to ensure application
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Sales Consulting Services
We work with you to help articulate the unique skills and attributes required of a salesperson in your organisation and begin the candidate assessment process.
By aligning processes, tools, and rewards with a customer-centric mindset, you can build a sales culture that not only meets but anticipates and exceeds customer needs.
Sales process mapping is the structured approach of outlining each stage in a company's sales process, from initial prospect engagement to closing a sale.
Unlike standard assessments, OMG is specifically designed to evaluate the unique qualities that make a successful salesperson.
Blog Posts About Our Sales Consulting Services
Read about why relying on behavioural interviewing may lead to overlooking candidates that are right for the job.
Learn about the importance of asking deeper questions when selling to avoid the price talk trap.
Read about the profound impact of beliefs on sales performance and can shape how they approach challenges, handle rejection, and pursue opportunities.
Learn about what sets top salespeople apart and how you can recruit the right people for your sales team.
Learn about how expectations and interactions can help or hinder your sales representatives.