Our Sales Workshop in Dubai Internet City is built on the opportunities sitting in your CRM today. Account executives and channel managers rehearse discovery calls, pricing pushback and multi-country negotiations hands on, using their own accounts rather than textbook cases.
Before the day, we pull a handful of open and lost opportunities with your sales lead. Those become the scenarios, so nobody wastes time on an invented software company.
Data residency questions, a rival vendor already in the account, budget frozen until next quarter. Sellers rehearse their answers to these out loud until they sound calm and specific.
Roughly four fifths of the workshop is sellers talking to buyers, played by colleagues or the trainer. Slides are kept to a few frameworks you can sketch on a whiteboard.
Your trainer has sold enterprise technology or led a regional sales team, so coaching sounds like advice from a peer who has lost deals too, not a lecture.
Sellers who finish the day are handed a TrainingInUAE.com certificate of completion, which slots neatly into enablement files and personal development plans.
You name the number that matters, say win rate on qualified deals or how fast opportunities move, and three months later we hold it up against where you began.
A seller who has explained a framework has learnt very little. A seller who has run the same discovery call three times, with sharper questions each round, walks back to the desk with a new habit. Our sessions are designed around that kind of repetition.
We look through stages, ageing deals and where opportunities stall, usually with the sales manager and a revenue operations lead.
Call recordings, won and lost stories and real email threads show us how your sellers speak to buyers today.
We turn your accounts into buyer briefs, each with a role, a hidden concern and a reason to say no.
Sellers run calls in pairs or trios, swap roles, take coaching and then repeat the conversation with the changes applied.
Each seller commits to using one technique on two named opportunities in the following fortnight and reports back.
We sit with the sales lead to compare the agreed metric against the baseline and decide on any follow up coaching.
Eighty per cent practice means short teaching bursts followed by long rounds of paired calls, buyer committee simulations and deal reviews, with the trainer stopping play to coach the exact sentence that lost control.
The complete outline runs to eight modules. Most teams pick four to six based on where their pipeline leaks, and every module ends in a practice round built from the accounts your sellers handle each week.
Getting beneath a request for a demo to the business problem behind it, mapping who is affected, and testing urgency before a demo is ever booked.
🛠 Sellers practise: Three rounds of a first meeting with a prospect from their own territory
Translating product features into outcomes a regional CFO or ministry director cares about, with proof points that do not lean on Western case studies alone.
🛠 Sellers practise: An opening value statement reworked for one real CFO or director
Responding to price, timing, security and incumbent vendor objections without discounting reflexively, using questions that keep the buyer talking.
🛠 Sellers practise: Rapid rounds answering the five objections the team hears most
Preparing trade-offs on term, volume, payment and implementation scope, and holding firm when procurement asks for a final discount at signature.
🛠 Sellers practise: A procurement negotiation on a renewal, played against the trainer
Clear exit criteria for each stage, honest commit calls and cleaning out deals that have quietly died, so the quarterly number stops surprising leadership.
🛠 Sellers practise: A peer review of three deals each seller is forecasting
Building trust with sponsors over time, expanding from one department to several, and working well with distributors and resellers who own the customer relationship.
🛠 Sellers practise: An account map and a ninety day expansion plan for one client
Working through tenders, local partner requirements, long evaluation cycles and committees where the decision maker is rarely the person in the meeting.
🛠 Sellers practise: A tender clarification meeting with a mock evaluation panel
Putting Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to work on account research, meeting summaries and proposal first drafts, with customer data handled inside your company AI policy.
🛠 Sellers practise: An AI assisted call plan for a meeting next week
A cloud vendor selling into Riyadh needs a different day from a media sales house filling advertising inventory in Dubai. We adjust content, examples and level after a short look at how your team sells.
Thirty minutes with the sales leader on targets, territories, sales motion and the deals that keep slipping, which tells us where to focus.
Your pitch deck, pricing logic, competitor notes and recent proposals become the raw material, handled under the confidentiality terms you set.
A first year business development rep and a seasoned enterprise seller need different depth, so we set the level per group and teach in English, Arabic or both.
Qualification, call structure and confident follow up for business development representatives in their first year.
Complex negotiation, stakeholder mapping and account expansion for sellers who already own key accounts.
Pipeline inspection, deal coaching and forecast calls for leaders who manage regional quota.
Running technical discovery, sharing demos that sell and spotting renewal and upsell signals early.
At the close of the workshop, each seller is given a certificate of completion from TrainingInUAE.com naming the modules covered and the hours spent. The document confirms attendance at an in-house programme; it is not a KHDA accredited qualification, and no software vendor stands behind it.
Most bookings come from regional offices of technology and media companies, plus growing local firms whose sellers cover the whole GCC from a single floor in the district or neighbouring Dubai Media City.
Account executives selling subscriptions to enterprises across the Gulf, often against global rivals and in long evaluation cycles.
Teams selling infrastructure, managed services and cybersecurity to banks, telcos and government entities.
Channel managers working through distributors and resellers to win shelf space and partner commitment.
Sellers of airtime, digital inventory and sponsorship packages who negotiate with agencies and brand owners.
Commercial teams selling to merchants and banks, where compliance questions shape every proposal.
Partners and managers who need to scope work, defend fees and grow retained accounts.
Plus 400+ enterprise clients across 16+ countries.
Our facilitators are senior practitioners who have closed enterprise deals, run regional sales teams and dealt with Gulf procurement first hand. You see the profile of your trainer before the date is confirmed.
For managers, senior leaders and leadership offsites
For sales, account and service teams
For AI adoption and productivity programmes
Since opening in 1999, Dubai Internet City has become the base for regional offices of software, cloud and hardware firms, with Dubai Media City next door housing broadcasters and agencies. Sellers here rarely cover one market. A single account executive may hold Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and parts of Africa, juggling giga project buyers, ministries, family conglomerates and fintech start ups in the same quarter.
Each of those buyers behaves differently. Government and semi government deals involve formal tenders, local partner rules and patient timelines, while private firms move faster and line up global vendors side by side. Head office playbooks seldom allow for this. A good sales workshop in Dubai Internet City helps sellers read the buyer in front of them, keep relationships warm over long cycles, and use Arabic where it opens a door.
One focused skill, such as discovery or objection handling, fitted around a normal selling day.
A full day of role plays on your live deals, with up to 20 sellers for each trainer.
Discovery through to negotiation, ideal before a sales kick off or a new financial year.
Short sessions over a quarter, each reviewing real deals the team is working at the time.
Camera on, breakout rooms and live coaching for colleagues sitting in Riyadh, Doha or Cairo.
Yes, that is how we prefer to work. Before the session we agree a shortlist of open and recently lost deals with your sales leader. Account names can be masked if you prefer. The role plays then mirror conversations your sellers will have again within days, and that closeness to real work is what makes new habits last.
They will. We study your product, pricing logic and main competitors during design, so a buyer in a role play asks the questions your real customers ask about licences, integration, security or contract length. Pre-sales colleagues are welcome to join and help shape the technical objections.
Yes. Yes. We deliver in English, in Arabic, or switch between the two. Many teams here mix native Arabic speakers selling into Saudi Arabia with international sellers covering other markets, so we often teach in English and run selected role plays in Arabic, where tone and courtesy carry real weight with buyers.
We cap hands on groups at up to 20 people per trainer, so every seller spends the day talking rather than watching. A bigger sales kick off is split into parallel rooms with extra trainers, or repeated on another date. An opening talk to the entire sales organisation has no size limit.
Yes. Most workshops take place in the client’s own meeting rooms in the district or in Dubai Media City, which saves travel time. Teams wanting a change of scene often choose a hotel meeting space nearby. We can also run sessions online for colleagues based in other countries.
Yes. Inside sales and business development reps need tight call openings, fast qualification and disciplined follow up. Field and enterprise sellers spend more time on stakeholder mapping, committee meetings and negotiation. We can run both groups together with split exercises, or design separate sessions for each.
Yes. Each seller who attends in full gets a certificate of completion from TrainingInUAE.com listing the workshop title and duration, handy for enablement records and appraisals. It is not a vendor certification or an externally examined qualification.
Ahead of the workshop, your sales leader and our trainer pick the yardstick, for example stage to stage conversion, sales cycle length, pipeline velocity or average deal value, and record a baseline from your CRM. After 90 days we compare the numbers together and share a short report with any coaching we recommend next.
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