PROFESSIONALSALES ACADEMY
≥  CORE PHILOSOPHY

Turning sales training into lasting performance

Better behaviours. Greater results.

Training alone doesn’t work, because it doesn’t change behaviour. Our professionally endorsed programmes use focused learning, one topic at a time, and coaching that turns new skills into everyday performance.

Endorsed by the Institute of Sales Professionals
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≥  COACHING IN THE FLOW OF WORK
87%

of traditional sales training is forgotten within three months.

Source: Huthwaite
≥  THE CHALLENGE

Knowledge isn’t the problem. Behaviour is.

Most sales training is crammed into a few days, then left to fade. People go back to live targets and old habits, and the new ideas never make it into real conversations.

This is the know–do gap: the distance between knowing what good looks like and doing it, every day, under pressure.

≥  WHAT WE BELIEVE

Three principles behind everything we do

Sales is a performance

Like any performance, it improves through practice, feedback and discipline, not knowledge alone.

Change takes time

Lasting behaviour change happens little and often, over months, with support along the way.

Professionals deserve recognition

A certificate of training completion, endorsed by the Institute of Sales Professionals, rewards growth and marks sales as a career worth taking seriously.

≥  HOW CHANGE HAPPENS

Awareness. Practice. Reflection.

Built on the science of behaviour change, every programme moves through three deliberate phases over several months. The result is lasting performance.

PHASE 101

Awareness

Understanding why: buyer psychology, how people make decisions, and why the sales process works the way it does.

PHASE 202

Practice

Focused learning, one topic at a time, tried straight away in a real sales situation.

PHASE 303

Reflection

Coaching and coursework to understand what you did, its consequences, and how to adjust next time.

≥  THE RESULT Performance New behaviours that become second nature, and hold up when the pressure is on.
≥  METHODOLOGY

Four pillars of sustained change

Spaced learning

Short, focused sessions that fit around your working week, from as little as an hour. One topic at a time, little and often.

Deliberate practice

Workplace exercises and coursework that turn theory into confident, repeatable skill.

Coaching feedback

Individual and group coaching to refine, reinforce and keep momentum when targets bite.

Recognised progress

A certificate of training completion, endorsed by the Institute of Sales Professionals. Proof of real growth against professional competencies.

≥  WHY PSA

Unlike the training you’ve probably had, we turn learning into behaviour change, so you see a marked difference in how your team performs.

We do it with a two-stage programme: a focused transformation that gets your whole team to best practice, then an ongoing academy that keeps standards rising.

See how the two stages work  →
≥  PROGRAMMES

Four transformation programmes

Each built from a wide range of topics, so it’s right for your company and the individual. Then an ongoing academy keeps the progress going.

PROFESSIONAL SELLING

New Business Development

For anyone in B2B sales whose role is to develop new opportunities in their territory.

PROFESSIONAL SELLING

Account Growth

For anyone responsible for the retention and growth of client accounts.

SALES SKILLS

Sales for Non-Sales Professionals

For engineers, consultants and business owners who need to win new business.

Find out more  →
LEADERSHIP

Performance Coaching for Managers

For managers who lead sales and account teams to high performance.

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≥  WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT

No tricks or fads: every programme is built on professional competencies endorsed by the Institute of Sales Professionals, so your team learns to a standard set by the professional body for sales.

About the Institute of Sales Professionals  →
INVESTING IN SALES EDUCATION WITH US
≥  IN THEIR WORDS

What changes when behaviour changes

The Academy training provided an excellent grounding in sales as a whole, but what makes these ongoing sessions so valuable is the ability to go further on the topics that I know will genuinely move the needle for me.
Zaki SantosAccount Manager, Officeology
I’ve shifted from being the person with the answers to being the person who asks the right questions. That change alone has empowered my team, increased trust and unlocked a level of collaboration I hadn’t experienced before.
John EdmondsNational & Strategic Sales Director, Chubb Fire & Security UK & I
≥  LET’S TALK

Ready to do the work?

We make it easy. But lasting change needs your time and your backing. If you’re ready, tell us about your team and we’ll show you what it could look like.

education@professionalsales.org0161 399 0692We reply within 2 working days.

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