How do you coach sales reps who always blame bad leads?
Coaching reps who lack self-awareness makes it nearly impossible to fix performance issues because they attribute every lost deal to poor lead quality instead of their own execution. Compounding this challenge, managers lack visibility into live conversations, leaving them unable to point to concrete moments that prove otherwise.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1using tools to monitor and review real conversations
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Self awareness hard to coach someone who thinks every lost deal was just a bad lead”source ↗
“you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it stop blaming the lead”source ↗
“Tools help a ton too its hard to coach what you can’t actually see happening in real conversations”source ↗
Where this came up
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