Leading PreSales | The Solution Engineering Leadership Show

Prep the People, Not Just the Demo [14]


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Why your demo prep survived everything except the actual demo

πŸŽ™οΈ Live webinar May 21: Tim & Jan on building a PreSales team that drives revenue β€” not just demos. serockstars.com/webinar

Your SE ran a dry run, sent a strategy reminder, and built a tight agenda. Five minutes in, an AE went off-script and the whole flow collapsed. Why does this keep happening β€” and what can SE leaders actually do about it?

What Nate and Ava discuss
  • Why dry runs rehearse content but not behavior β€” and why that gap kills complex demos
  • The "rules of engagement" conversation: scripting reactions, not just presentations
  • Giving AEs an active role during demos instead of asking them to stay quiet
  • The move

    Stop telling your AEs to be quiet. Give them a job β€” like owning the live question log β€” so their energy protects the demo flow instead of blowing it up. And build your rules of engagement into the dry run itself, not a Slack message after.

    πŸ”— Resources & Links: paths.to/presales

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    Leading PreSales | The Solution Engineering Leadership ShowBy Jan-Erik Jank & Tim BrΓΆmme