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Are You Coachable? The Sales Skill That Quietly Drives Quota Attainment

Are You Coachable? The Sales Skill That Quietly Drives Quota Attainment

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 Kevin Lawson and Sean O'Shaughnessey take on a question that exposes more than technique: Are you actually coachable? This episode of Two Tall Guys Talking Sales digs into the connection between coachability, trust, quota attainment, and long-term sales success. Along the way, they move beyond generic advice and into the real mechanics of growth in selling—how coaching sharpens business acumen, improves sales management, strengthens sales processes, and ultimately drives stronger revenue generation. If you care about becoming more effective in high-pressure sales moments, this episode is worth downloading. Key Topics Discussed Why coachability matters in sales and sales leadership (00:00) Kevin opens by tying coachability to performance, preparation, and intentional execution. Sean expands the lens, arguing that coachability is not just a seller issue. Sales leaders need it too, especially when they are accountable to a CEO, president, CFO, or board and must adapt in real time to what the field is actually seeing. The difference between getting coaching and applying coaching (03:13) Sean makes a critical distinction: being coachable is not nodding politely at advice. It is trying the idea, evaluating the outcome, and returning with thoughtful feedback about what worked, what missed, and how to adapt the tactic to your own style, messaging, and customer context. The basketball free-throw analogy for pressure-selling moments (04:29) One of the strongest sections in the episode compares a live sales moment to stepping to the free-throw line with the game on the line. The coach cannot take the shot for you. In the same way, no manager can rescue you when the CEO unexpectedly joins the meeting and says, "Let's make a deal right now." That is where preparation, coaching, and value-selling discipline show up. Coaching comes from more places than your manager (06:33) Kevin broadens the definition of coach to include peers, internal champions, prospect-side advocates, customers, and even deals you lost. That is an important shift for anyone serious about sales strategies and revenue management. The lesson is simple: if you accept input from only one source, you limit your own development. Why coachability increases quota attainment (08:24) Kevin makes the case that coachability is not a soft trait. It has hard commercial consequences. Sellers who stay open to wise counsel, surround themselves with strong peers, and learn from feedback tend to improve execution and increase quota attainment. This is where personal growth meets real sales success. Trust as the real product being sold (09:47) Sean closes with the episode's most durable idea: sellers do not merely sell products or services. They sell trust. Trust in themselves, in the offering, in the company behind it, and in the process that follows the sale. That framing has major implications for messaging, value selling, and every part of the sales process. Key Quotes Kevin Lawson (07:51) "If you are not willing in an interview scenario to take coaching and feedback, you're probably not going to make it as a seller." Kevin Lawson (08:24) "Being coachable has the magic outcome of quota attainment increases." Sean O'Shaughnessey (03:34) "You need to try the ideas. Now, the key to being coachable though, is to try it, think about what happened, and then respond back to your coach and say, 'I tried to do that and it didn't quite work. What did I miss?'" Sean O'Shaughnessey (09:47) "You sell trust." Sean O'Shaughnessey (10:22) "If you always think that I am selling trust... that I am not a liar... that what I tell you, Mr. Prospect, is the truth... we'll do validation events or whatever, but you've got to trust that the product's going to work." A Significant Actionable Item from this Podcast Audit one recent coaching moment and ask yourself a harder question than "Did I hear the advice?" Ask, "Did I actually apply it, reflect on the result, and return with a better question?" That is the real test of coachability. Pick one deal, one lost opportunity, or one upcoming customer conversation and intentionally apply a piece of coaching before your next call. Consistently done, this improves business acumen, tightens sales processes, and makes revenue generation more predictable. Summary This episode of Two Tall Guys Talking Sales is not really about whether you like feedback. It is about whether you can convert feedback into better execution under pressure. Kevin Lawson and Sean O'Shaughnessey connect coachability to trust, sales management, messaging, value selling, and the daily behaviors that separate average performers from professionals who consistently create sales success. If you want sharper sales strategies and a more mature approach to revenue management, this conversation offers more than just inspiration. It gives you a standard. B2B Sales Lab is a private, member-led community for sales professionals who want actionable insights, not theory. It's a ...
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