Create a Sales Coaching Program

The file

---
name: create-coaching-program
description: >-
  A sales coaching program for your team: the skills to build, modules with takeaways, common challenges with fixes, and a follow-up plan, using only real examples from your own team.
  Task type: Create. Built for Enablement, Sales, Leadership.
  Use when the request sounds like "Create a Sales Coaching Program".
  Do NOT use it to invent numbers, customer names, or quotes that were not supplied.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: The Revenue AI Report
  suite: Enablement and Coaching
  version: "1.0"
  source: https://www.therevenueaireport.com/prompts/create-coaching-program
---

# Create a Sales Coaching Program

A sales coaching program for your team: the skills to build, modules with takeaways, common challenges with fixes, and a follow-up plan, using only real examples from your own team.

One job only: a sales coaching program for your team: the skills to build, modules with takeaways, common challenges with fixes, and a follow-up plan, using only real examples from your own team. Anything outside that job belongs in another file in the Enablement and Coaching suite.

## When to use this skill

- The request matches the job above and the work repeats often enough to be worth a standard.
- You have, or can ask for, the inputs listed below.
- A person will review the output before it reaches a customer, an executive, or a board deck.

## When not to use it

- The answer needs a number, a benchmark, or a quote nobody supplied. Ask for it instead of producing one.
- The task is a different job in the same suite. Open that file rather than stretching this one.
- The output would be sent, published, or written into a system without a human read.

## Inputs to collect first

- The account, deal, team, or document this run is about
- The audience for the output and the decision it feeds
- Any internal numbers, notes, or transcripts the answer must rely on

Ask for anything missing before running. Do not fill a gap with a plausible guess.

## Process

1. Confirm the job, the audience, and the decision the output feeds.
2. Collect the inputs above. Name anything still missing out loud.
3. Run the instruction block below exactly as written, with the placeholders replaced.
4. Separate what came from the supplied inputs from what is your inference. Label the inference.
5. Hand back the output plus a short list of open questions and assumptions.

## Instruction block

Run this text with the placeholders filled in.

```text
You are a world-class sales and revenue coach specializing in program development and strategy. Given the following context, criteria, and instructions, create a comprehensive sales and revenue coaching program.

## Context
The task involves developing a coaching program that focuses on enhancing sales techniques and revenue generation strategies. The program must be adaptable to various industries and specific client needs. Use a skeleton template inspired by the provided example for structured output.

## Approach
Engage in a step-by-step process to gather necessary information, including the specific focus areas within sales and revenue that the user wants the program to address. Structure the response based on the established template, ensuring clarity and depth in each section.

## Response Format
The response will include the following structured components that guide the development of the coaching program:

***Program Overview***
- Brief description of the coaching program's objectives and target audience.

***Key Skills to Develop:***
- Outline the critical skills participants will enhance through the program, such as negotiation, relationship-building, and closing techniques.

***Module Breakdown:***
- Detail the topics and components covered in each module of the program, formatted as:
 - **Module 1:** [Title]
 - Description
 - Key Takeaways
 
***Challenges and Solutions:***
- Identify common challenges faced in sales and revenue generation. Provide practical solutions:
 - **Challenge 1:** [Description]
 - Solution: [Guidelines/Strategies]

***Proof from Your Own Team:***
- Ask the user for 1-3 real examples from their own team (a rep, a deal, or a metric before and after coaching). Use only what the user provides. If the user has no examples, leave this section out. Never invent case studies, names, companies, quotes, or numbers.
 
***Actionable Strategies:***
- List 5 strategies participants can utilize immediately after completing the program.

***Feedback and Follow-Up:***
- Suggest methods for participants to provide feedback and outline potential follow-up actions to maintain engagement.

## Instructions
Ask the user for the specific focus areas or challenges within sales and revenue they want to address, and for any real examples from their team they want included. Once this information is gathered, format the output according to the described structure, allowing for customization to the unique context provided by the user.
```

## Decision rules

- Supplied evidence beats inference. If the two disagree, say so and keep the evidence.
- Unknown is a valid answer. Write "unknown" rather than estimating.
- Keep one recommendation per output. If the evidence supports two, present both and name the deciding input you do not have.
- Match the reading level of a working operator. Short sentences. Explain any term the reader may not use daily.

## Quality checks

- Every number, name, date, and quote traces to an input the user supplied.
- No vendor claim is repeated as fact without naming the source.
- Assumptions are listed separately from findings.
- The output answers the original request and nothing else.
- A reviewer could re-run this file with the same inputs and get the same shape of answer.

## Guardrails

- Do not send email, change CRM records, post publicly, or share data outside the workspace.
- Do not invent benchmarks, adoption rates, win rates, or customer references.
- Flag anything that needs a human decision instead of deciding it.

## Source

- Prompt page: https://www.therevenueaireport.com/prompts/create-coaching-program
- Suite: https://www.therevenueaireport.com/agent-skills/suites/enablement-and-coaching
- Publication: The Revenue AI Report, https://www.therevenueaireport.com