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I want AI to help my business do some training for new employees, what should I do, thinking step by step
Here are some steps you could take to use AI to help train new employees:
- Determine your training needs and goals. What skills and knowledge do you want the new employees to gain? This will help guide what kind of AI tools you should look into.
- Look into AI-powered training platforms. There are services like Anthropic, Scale AI, and Cohere that offer customizable AI models for training. Consider if you want a general training AI or one customized for your industry.
- Develop training content. Work with subject matter experts to create training materials, documents, videos, assessments etc. that align with your goals. This content will be used to train the AI.
- Train the AI. Upload the training content and data to the AI platform. The more quality data you can provide, the better the AI will become at delivering training.
- Test and iterate. Have the AI provide sample training interactions with actual new hires or current employees acting as new. Gather feedback, continue uploading data, and tweak the AI until satisfied.
- Deploy the AI trainer. Let new employees learn from the AI via chat, voice interaction, or an avatar interface. The AI can answer questions, explain concepts, provide feedback, and more 24/7.
- Monitor and evaluate. Track new hire progress, knowledge retention, employee satisfaction with the AI trainer. Tweak as needed to improve. The AI can also track areas for improvement.
- Maintain the AI. Keep training the AI with new materials and data as processes change. Have human trainers vet information to ensure quality control.
The key is finding the right AI platform for your needs and providing excellent training data. Start small, test frequently, and the AI trainer will become a valuable asset! Let me know if you need any other tips.
ok, my training goals: help fresh to be a excelence saler, is there any kond of AI tools for me?
Yes, there are a few AI tools that could be helpful for training new sales employees to be excellent sellers:
- Sales training AI: Tools like Atiim and Ambit focus specifically on sales training. They provide AI-powered virtual sales assistants to practice conversations and sales pitch feedback. The AI can be customized with your products/services and sales techniques.
- Conversation simulation AI: Services like Anthropic and Mursion create human-like AI that can engage in sales conversations and scenarios. Practicing conversations with AI that feels real helps build sales skills.
- Coaching/feedback AI: Tools like Hypergiant and Balto offer AI that can listen to sales calls, analyze performance, and provide real-time feedback or coaching tips to employees. This develops skills through each interaction.
- Sales analytics AI: Platforms like Gong and Chorus analyze past sales interactions to surface insights teams can use to refine pitches, objections handling, and more. The AI finds trends humans may miss.
- Custom training AI: Build your own AI trainer tailored to your products, services, techniques, terminology, objections, competitors etc. Leverage services like Cohere or Anthropic to create customized sales training.
I'd recommend starting with a needs analysis for your sales training, then exploring a combination of these AI tools. Focus on conversation practice, feedback, and analytics to build skills. Monitor the AI impact and refine as needed. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Using a good salesperson in my company as a template for training, do you have any AI tools for this?
Yes, there are a couple ways AI could help train new salespeople by leveraging your existing top talent as examples:
- Conversation Cloning AI: Tools like Anthropic's Claude can "clone" the conversational style and language of your best salespeople by analyzing past sales calls, chats, emails, etc. The AI adopts their tone, phrases, rapport building techniques, objection handling styles, and more. New hires can practice sales conversations with an AI that mimics your star employees.
- Virtual Shadowing AI: Platforms like Boost.ai and Mursion create AI sales assistants that new hires can shadow on simulated sales calls and interactions. The AI demonstrates the steps, techniques, language, and approach of top performers on your team through example. Employees learn through observation in a risk-free environment.
- Smart Pitch AI: Services like Idio train AI on recordings of successful sales pitches from your veterans. The AI studies what resonates and closes deals. New salespeople can practice their pitch on the AI, receiving feedback on how to improve their delivery based on data from your proven team members.
- Analytics for Coaching: Tools like Chorus and Gong analyze past interactions to provide insights into what works. Use this data to develop customized coaching programs for new hires focused on leveraging the best practices of your existing sales team.
The key is capturing as much data and knowledge from your top salespeople as possible to inform the AI. This allows it to adopt their style and effectively train others to sell like your stars. Let me know if you need any advice putting this into action!
what kind of data i need to provide?
Here are some of the key types of data to provide to maximize the training potential of AI for new sales hires:
- Sales call recordings - Capture recordings of sales calls, demos, and client meetings from your top performers. These are used to train conversation simulation AI and pitch analysis AI.
- Written communications - Collect emails, chat/SMS histories, proposals, objection rebuttals, and any other sales-related writing from veteran team members. These help AI adopt human tone and language.
- CRM data - Customer relationship management systems contain notes, transaction records, and insights that can inform AI sales assistants.
- Sales methodology - Document your proven sales processes, techniques, scripts, objections handling, common phrases, consultative questioning framework, and anything else unique to your sales approach for AI to learn.
- Product/service specs - Provide your catalog, pricing, technical specifications, common usages, and expertise documents to the AI for reference.
- Customer personas - Develop profiles of your ideal customers, common pain points, and use cases to train AI on who and how to sell to.
- Example pitches/dialogues - Write out examples of effective sales pitches and customer conversations for foundational training.
- Assessments - Create quizzes, sample scenarios, and roleplay exercises to evaluate progress.
The more high-quality sales conversations, documents, and training materials from your veteran team you can feed the AI, the better it will be able to coach and develop new hires. Focus on successes and what works for your business. Let me know if you need help preparing any of this data!
How should I organize them? Need a fixed format?
There's no single fixed format required, but here are some tips for organizing the sales training data to make it easiest for the AI to digest and learn from:
- Structure by content type - Group together recordings, emails, CRM data, product specs, etc. The AI will likely ingest different data types separately.
- Include relevant metadata - Ensure recordings and documents include metadata like date, names of participants, purpose (sales pitch, objection handling, etc). This provides context.
- Transcribe audio - Use speech-to-text tools to transcribe call recordings into text for conversation analysis AI.
- Anonymize data - Remove or obscure any sensitive customer information to protect privacy if needed.
- Highlight successes - Flag or tag recordings, emails, documents that led to sales or positive outcomes to focus AI on what works.
- Clean up data - Fix any typos or formatting issues that could confuse analysis.
- Organize by sales rep - Keep data from each veteran sales rep organized in separate folders for AI to learn their unique style.
- Use cloud storage - Upload organized folders to cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, Box to provide easy AI access.
- Include README file - Have a manual explaining folder structure, contents, metadata, highlights, etc. to help orient any training.
The clearer and more organized the data, the faster the AI can digest it for maximum training value. Let me know if you need any help setting up tools or processes to capture and prepare the sales data!
is it work if i export these data info .doc, .md files?
Yes, exporting the sales training data into common document file formats like .doc and .md files can work for AI training purposes. Here are some tips:
- For call transcriptions, use .doc or .txt files. The AI will ingest the text content for conversation analysis.
- For emails, chat logs, written communiques - .doc, .md, or .txt will preserve the content needed.
- For sales methodology and training manuals, use .doc or .pdf to maintain formatting.
- For CRM data, extract and export relevant fields into a .csv spreadsheet file.
- For product specs, customer profiles, etc. use formatted .doc or unformatted .txt
- For audio/video, keep files in their original .mp3, .wav, .mp4 format for conversation cloning AI.
- Include relevant metadata in filenames (date, rep name, type) and in a README.
The key is making sure the extraction process accurately captures all the sales content, data, and context required for the AI to learn. Test extracting a sample of each data type into docs/text files to ensure critical info isn't lost.
Many AI platforms allow uploading a mix of document files, spreadsheets, media files. Just be sure to organize them logically in cloud storage for easy ingestion. Let me know if you have any other questions!
provide a redeme file example
Here's an example README file that could accompany exported sales training data for an AI system:
This data is intended to train sales conversation AI assistants to adopt the style and approach of our top performers.
Contents
- Call_Recordings: Contains 300 call recordings from Jan-Dec 2022. Filenames include rep name, date, client name, and deal result (won/lost). Transcripts included as .txt files.
- Emails: Email threads between reps and prospects/clients. Filenames include rep name, date range, deal name. Exported as .msg files.
- Methodology: Our documented sales methodology guide, objections handbook, and new account onboarding process in .pdf format.
- Client_Profiles: Key details on our top 50 client accounts - industry, needs, pain points, contract info. Exported from CRM as Excel .csv file.
- Pitches: Example pitch decks and scripts in .ppt and .doc formats that led to won deals.
- Assessments: Roleplaying exercises, objection scenarios, and quizzes in .doc format to evaluate learning.
Metadata
Calls and emails include relevant context like rep, client, date, deal result to inform the AI. Pitches tagged with "won" led to closed sales.
Recommendations
Focus training on Jenny Smith's calls - our top converting sales rep. Her warm rapport with clients is ideal to mimic.
Contact
Please reach out to support@abccompany.com with any questions!
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Can it summarize the sales strategy of assigning two excellent salespeople?
Unfortunately without more specific details about the sales strategy, it's difficult for me to provide a useful summary. However, here is an attempt at summarizing some general principles for assigning two excellent salespeople:
- Leverage strengths - Understand the unique skills, styles and strengths of each salesperson and assign them accounts or projects that maximize these. For example, assign the relationship builder to key existing accounts and the hunter closer to new business outreach.
- Align interests - Make sure both salespeople have shared goals and incentives when assigned to the same opportunities. Consider split commissions or team bonuses to encourage collaboration not competition.
- Specialize roles - Have each salesperson own a distinct role across opportunities appropriate to skills. One may be the lead advisor while the other focuses on paperwork and operations.
- Share knowledge - Make sure both collaborate and share intelligence across the accounts they split. Don't silo information. Enable them to learn from each other.
- Balance workloads - Split responsibilities fairly based on capacity and workload. This prevents overburdening one individual when you have two capable salespeople.
- Provide backup - While dividing and conquering accounts, each salesperson can provide support and fill in when the other is out. Enables flexibility.
- Review periodically - Reevaluate account assignments regularly to ensure the division of labor remains optimal, not just legacy decisions.
Let me know if you can provide more details on the specific sales strategy for assigning two excellent salespeople. I'm happy to summarize and provide analysis on how to optimize it.
You misunderstood me. I am continuing the previous discussion, and I need to use AI to help me summarize the sales strategy of two excellent salespeople , how do adjust the data or readme file?
You're right, my apologies. I misunderstood the context. Since we were previously discussing using AI to learn from your top salespeople's data to train new hires, I now understand you are asking how to organize the data from two excellent salespeople to summarize their strategies.
Here are some tips on adjusting the data and README file:
- Separate data for each salesperson into individual folders named after them. The AI can ingest their data separately.
- In the README, note key strengths, skills, and sales approaches unique to each person. Call out what makes them excellent.
- Highlight or tag recordings and documents for each salesperson that represent their best work or exemplify their strategy.
- In transcriptions and metadata, denote which interactions and deals are associated with which rep.
- Provide performance data for each salesperson - conversion rates, deals closed, revenue achieved.
- Note any accounts or types of opportunities the reps specialize in.
- Include examples of how the two reps collaborate on shared accounts.
The goal is to distinctly capture what makes each salesperson successful through their data, keeping their strategies and work clearly delineated. The AI can then surface patterns, approaches, and language unique to each excellent rep to summarize their sales methodology.
Let me know if you need any help setting up the data or have additional questions!