Sales Quick Start (SQS) Workshop

Sales Quick Start Workshop

  • NOTE: The Sales Quick Start (SQS) Workshop is MANDATORY for all new Sales Team Members. If you must cancel for any reason, please be sure to obtain Regional Director approval in writing.
  • After completing the virtual, self-paced Sales Quick Start learning path, new sales team members (along with new Solution Architects, Customer Success Managers, and Sales Development Rep) participate in an interactive in-person workshop where participants practice applying this new knowledge in fun and challenging ways including mock calls, role plays, and group activities
    • As a result, new sales team members exit Sales Quick Start more confident and capable in their ability to lead an effective discovery call with a customer or prospect
    • Participants also benefit by establishing a community of similarly-tenured peers and more experienced mentors and colleagues to support each others’ growth and development at GitLab
  • Note: The Results Value is our highest priority and we strive to deliver sales training and enablement remotely as much as possible and reserve in-person formats only for circumstances when we can’t obtain the desired results via remote/virtual delivery)
    • Iteration is expected to keep moving what we can to remote models once we can achieve the same or better results that way
  • Future iteration of this process will define what sales team members need to KNOW, DO, and BE ABLE TO ARTICULATE (by sales role, customer segment, and geo as appropriate) after they complete the above and support those learning objectives as they continue their ramp to GitLab sales performance excellence!

Sales Quick Start In-Person Workshop Agenda

This SQS 2024 Agenda sheet contains the most up to date agenda for our in-person Sales Quick Start Workshop. Please check the tabs at the bottom of this document to see each day’s agenda. This agenda is subject to change based on the individual needs of the class and the availability of SMEs, but we will make every effort to surface those changes in this document.

Sales Quick Start Remote Agenda

SQS 39 - June 2024

  • Workshop times quoted are United States Eastern Daylight Time (New York) (UTC -4)
DATE START TIME END TIME ACTIVITY SME ASSIGNED
May 15, 2024 10:30a ET 11:20a ET Welcome Call Field Enablement Team
Jun 3, 2024 10:30a ET 10:55a ET Operational Excellence: Into to Gitlab Field Security Field Security Team
Jun 3, 2024 11:00a ET 11:50a ET Solution Focus: Intro to Competition Marketing Team
Jun 4, 2024 10:30a ET 10:55a ET Operational Excellence: Intro to GitLab Legal Legal Team
Jun 4, 2024 11:30a ET 12:20p ET Operational Excellence: Working with Marketing + Sales Dev Makerting Enablement
Jun 5, 2024 10:30a ET 11:20a ET Customer Focus: Customer Success Management Overview CS Team
Jun 6, 2024 10:30a ET 10:55a ET Intro to Sales Ops + Deal Desk RSOE Team
Jun 6, 2024 11:00a ET 11:50a ET Customer Focus: Professional Services Professional Services Team
Jun 7, 2024 10:30a ET 11:50a ET Intro to Partner Sales Partner Team
Jun 10, 2024 10:00a ET 12:30p ET Command of the Message: Essential Questions Exercise Field Enablement Team
Jun 11, 2024 10:00a ET 12:30p ET Command of the Message: Value Card Exercise Field Enablement Team
Jun 12, 2024 10:00a ET 12:30p ET Command of the Message: Discovery Question Exercise Field Enablement Team
Jun 13, 2024 10:00a ET 12:30p ET Command of the Message: Differentiator Exercise Field Enablement Team
Jun 17, 2024 10:00a ET 12:30p ET Command of the Message: Mock Discovery Calls Mock Customers
Jun 21, 2024 10:30a ET 12:30p ET Command of the Message: MEDDPPICC Field Enablement Team
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