Simpler Selling

Make selling simpler.
Make sellers better.

Your team probably knows more about selling than they manage to use when it matters. More frameworks won't fix that. More things to remember won't either.

Most training adds. Simpler Selling takes away.

Sales Training · Sales Coaching · Sales Process · AI for Sales

5,000+

Sellers & leaders trained

Shane takes complex ideas/concepts and makes them practical and easy to apply!
VP Sales SaaS
Shane brings such a human aspect to these workshops, and a strong meaning in his training.
Head of Customer Success SaaS

The problem

Selling doesn't need to be more complicated. It needs to be more consistent.

Maybe you're building a sales team and what worked when one or two people were selling isn't translating as the team grows.

Or you've stepped into a Head of Sales or VP Sales role knowing exactly what good looks like - but your team isn't there yet.

It's the same pattern in most SaaS sales teams: the knowledge is there, the consistency isn't.

Discovery varies from rep to rep.
Qualification means different things to different people.
Managers coach differently.
Processes exist, but aren't consistently followed.

None of this shows up neatly as a training problem. It shows up in forecasts you don't trust, deals stalling at the same stage, and two people carrying the number.

The answer isn't more. It's making what matters clearer, easier to use and easier to repeat. That's Simpler Selling.

Training shouldn't give your team more things to remember. It should make selling easier to do well.

If you need to define how your team should sell, I'll simplify what's working and make it repeatable. If you already know what good looks like, I'll turn it into training, coaching and behaviours people actually use. And if you're working out where AI fits, we'll focus on where it genuinely makes selling simpler and better. The goal isn't another methodology, more slides or a great day of training. It's making good selling easier to repeat when the real work starts.

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Shane McGrath explaining internal versus external buying triggers on a live session whiteboard
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See it in action

What a session actually looks like.

Live thinking on the board, worked through with your team against real accounts and real deals. No pre-recorded theory, no slide marathon.

Who I work with

Different starting points. Same goal.

Make good selling easier to repeat.

You're building the sales function.

Your team is growing. But the way your business sells hasn't yet become a clear, repeatable way for everyone to sell.

  • Everyone running discovery differently
  • Deals progressing without real qualification
  • Messaging changing from rep to rep
  • Too much reliance on one or two people to move deals
  • No consistent definition of what 'good' looks like
  • Sellers experimenting with AI without any real direction

You don't need a 100-page sales playbook. You need to work out what good looks like, make it simple enough for people to use and help your team get good at it. That's what we'll build.

Build Your Sales Process

You're leading an existing sales team.

You've stepped into a Head of Sales or VP Sales role. You can see what needs to change. The challenge isn't necessarily knowing what good selling looks like. It's turning that into something the whole team understands, practises and consistently applies - while you're also trying to run the number.

  • Inconsistent discovery and qualification
  • Managers coaching differently
  • Reps reverting to old habits
  • A methodology that exists but isn't actually being used
  • Too much variation between your strongest and weakest sellers
  • Pressure to 'do something with AI' without knowing where it genuinely helps

You don't need to become your team's full-time enablement function. I help you simplify the way you want your organisation selling, turn it into practical training and coach your people until it starts becoming the way they actually sell.

Develop Your Sales Team

Capabilities

Simpler selling isn't about teaching your team more. It's about helping them focus on what actually moves deals.

Discovery

Better discovery isn't more questions. It's staying with an answer long enough to find out what's underneath it - and most sellers move on one question too early.Learn more

Qualification

Ask two sellers if a deal is qualified and you'll often get the same word for two different things. Getting specific about what has to be true is usually worth more than a scoring framework.

Messaging

Most messaging problems aren't messaging problems. The seller didn't learn enough in discovery to say anything specific, so they fall back on the deck.

Objection Handling

Objections rarely arrive as objections. They arrive as delay, silence and a stakeholder who's suddenly hard to reach. Handling them starts with recognising them.

Multithreading

Everyone agrees single-threaded deals are risky. Far fewer teams have a normal, non-awkward way for a seller to ask for the second and third conversation.

Deal Progression

A next step in the calendar isn't the same as progress. What changed for the buyer since the last conversation is the better question, and it's the one that keeps pipeline honest.

Prospecting

More activity doesn't fix outreach nobody wants to reply to. Give the seller a better reason to contact this person, about this problem, now - then worry about how many they send.Learn more

AI for Sales

Work out where AI genuinely saves time or improves thinking, and ignore the places it doesn't. Most teams need three good workflows, not seventy-five prompts.

When selling is simpler, it's easier to learn. Easier to coach. Easier to repeat.

Simpler doesn't mean basic. And it doesn't mean removing the skill from selling.

It means removing unnecessary complexity so your sellers can focus on the things that actually matter.

That's what makes good selling repeatable.

  • Clear behaviours.
  • Practical tools.
  • Common language.
  • Real practice.
  • Consistent coaching.
  • Less to remember. More they can actually use.

Why Simpler Selling is different

More training isn't always the answer.

The problem usually isn't how much your team has been taught. It's how much of it they can actually use on Monday morning.

More Sales Training

  • More frameworks
  • More theory
  • Generic examples
  • One-off training
  • Hope it sticks

Simpler Selling

  • Clear behaviours
  • Practical application
  • Your buyers and deals
  • Training + coaching
  • Reinforce what works

There's a fuller version of this on the about page.

How it works

Simpler selling starts with understanding how your team actually sells.

  1. 01 Understand

    Understand how your team actually sells

    We work out what's actually happening. Review calls, speak with sellers, look at live opportunities and understand where deals get stuck. We look at what's working, what's inconsistent and what's become unnecessarily complicated - including how existing technology and AI are being used.

  2. 02 Simplify

    Decide what good looks like

    If you're building your first sales process, we'll turn what's working into something clear and repeatable. If you already have a methodology, we'll simplify it into the behaviours sellers actually need. If AI can remove unnecessary work or improve part of the process, we'll build it in.

  3. 03 Train

    Train it against their world

    Your team uses it against their world: their buyers, deals, objections and conversations. Practical. Interactive. Immediately usable.

  4. 04 Coach

    Coach it until it's normal

    Training creates the starting point. Coaching makes it normal. Live deals become the material and real conversations become the coaching opportunities.

Make it simple. Practise it. Coach it. Make it stick.

Proof

What people say after the session.

Shane takes complex ideas/concepts and makes them practical and easy to apply!

CSM

B2B SaaS

Shane was engaged, specific, knowledgeable, and breaks things down in such a digestible way.

Enterprise AE

SaaS Scale-up

Broke down how to communicate more deeply with customers. Loved how practical and collaborative it was.

Customer Success Lead

SaaS Scale-up

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AI for Sales

AI should make selling simpler. Not less human.

I help your team use AI where it genuinely improves research, preparation, prospecting, coaching and deal strategy, without creating more noise.

Explore AI for Sales

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