Curious to see if other businesses are very committed to a specific Sales Methodology or not.
I've worked in places where the sales methodology was implemented very strongly and almost "religiously", others where there would be a playbook only (very different thing). Where I work now we have one which gets mentioned during onboarding but never used or believed in.
Does your company have one? does it actually get used in training, deal qualification, deal reviews and as a standard? pros-cons? do you buy into it? do you do your own thing based on previous training?
I've been in companies using:
- Value Selling: classic, maybe slightly out of date now, great for consultative selling
- Challenger Sale: mixed results and application. It's not really a full blown methodology vs a communication framework IMHO. Where I am now it gets mentioned at the start and never discussed again.
- Winning by Design's SaaS Method: semi-custom mix of many approaches put together by this sales training company. Not bad, nothing groundbreaking but pretty solid basics
I know many places love MEDDIC.
funnily enough sometimes you get taught completely opposite approaches which are hard to reconcile. Also I do think having one is important and wish more of my employers had adopted one to drive consistency in how we do discovery, qualify opps etc..
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