Reviewing Gong calls is a crucial part of our team’s daily sync. Since we adopted the platform, all of our onboarding sessions, quarterly reviews, etc. are recorded and evaluated for optimal performance. 

From our COO to our Associates, everyone in our organization is on Gong, interacting with each other, learning together, and evolving as a team.

To increase user adoption of Gong we plan to execute on the following:

1. Build a library of quality calls to be leveraged by onboarding as well as seasoned reps. Have folders for calls including Competition, Qualification, Decision Point, and Objections. 
2. Set up rep KPIs around listening to their own calls monthly/weekly, and a few of their teams calls monthly/weekly - providing positive feedback to peers and asking for feedback from leadership. 
3. Support sales leadership in providing coaching to their sales reps on calls reps have requested feedback on during their 1:1’s. Show leaders how to use call searches and subscribed search notifications of set criteria to surface calls they’d like to provide feedback on. 
4. Coach Sales Executives and leaders on how to use deal boards to their advantage for board reporting etc. and create warnings that are more pertinent to the risks they’d like more visibility too.  
5. Create a drip campaign of messages from Enablement to sales reps on best practices and use cases for Gong. Goal will be to showcase how Gong can work for them first and foremost, making their day to day deal management easier. Send this out in our weekly Sales Enablement “Patch”.   
    

• Create a personalized call library for reps to easily navigate their peers calls to listen to specific objections, competitor mentions, & other trackers.
• Created KPI’s for both managers & reps on using scorecards. Have them listen to X amount of calls per week / month & fill out X amount of scorecard.
• Tracking other KPI’s such as the call > meeting conversion rate & average call time
• Train all front line managers on forecasting, deal boards & scorecards
• Highlight ‘best call’ in weekly team newsletter & feature a different rep each time
• Create Spiffs to encourage the team to leverage the platform more 

• By setting the stage for the implementation - highlighting some major win factors from key stakeholders (coaching, insights, good behaviors)
• Set up trackers for each area to enhance reporting; key initiatives for the organization, behaviors that enable more wins, and areas to gain more accurate insights.
• Enable our listeners - Gong isn’t just for recorders; this will help us cross functionally in the org for communicating and hearing directly from the customer. 
• Reward the high adopters and continue momentum - incentivize internally for utilization of Gong (I.e. listens, comments, and communication between areas).
• Create dashboards that empower the team and are meaningful to be effective in their respective areas.

We plan to use Gong as a means to both highlight good examples as well as raise hands for help in a newly emerging coaching program. With Gong already being the call library or source of truth from sales conversations, it was the obvious choice to use it for call coaching. 

As we do not have a formal coach or trainer role, we are relying on reps and sales enablement to review calls and bubble up clips that highlight “golden examples” of a job well done or finding instances where they may have struggled and didn’t have the right answers, thus triggering a conversation with their RVP or Solutions Engineers. Gong allows easy sharing and selecting specific clips from calls, thus cutting down on RVP time of reviewing the entire call. 

Good examples will be stored in libraries within Gong, allowing new or experienced reps to easily find highlights for key conversations, such as demos, objection handling etc. 

@Barry de Leeuw perfect use of Gong! Let us know if any cool / unexpected outcomes happened as a result of this approach! 

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We use both SPIN and MEDDIC in our selling, for discovery and sales methodology. Although we speak about each, we have not had wide scale formal training for every seller. 

By utilizing Gong trackers and initiative boards, we would like to find our baseline for how well adapted these are and where we are doing well VS where we should spend more effort. Each person on the sales enablement team will be shadowing calls this quarter via gong and by using the trackers and their own area of expertise, be it MEDDIC or SPIN, they can then leave feedback and assist in building out the trackers to better fit our company. To start with, we used a mix of examples from Miller Heiman and Gong for SPIN and plan to enhance it with real company based questions in the near future. SPIN should also lend itself to Smart trackers once we have more usage and standardization of key questions being used. 

Phase 1.5 will be having sellers and managers looking to these initiative boards to see where deals are healthy VS at-risk. So custom alerts will need to be arranged i.e. stage 3 and too many situational questions or no coach involved at a certain interval. 

We plan to implement Gong into our company’s compliance and training processes. In regard to our compliance, we would utilize the smart trackers found in the software to help navigate the hundreds if not thousands of calls made in and out of the offices on a daily basis. We will check for infractions in which our sales, processing, and customer service sectors make in hope to be able to complete audits accurately. Our company utilizes Gong to remain compliant with all financial and governmental institutions.

In addition, we utilize Gong in a similar facet but in terms of our lower level Business Development Representatives. We utilize the smart trackers and filters to locate certain phrases and key words to be able to help train the new employees so that they can become better salesman and fine tune their pitches and customer service skills.

We are in the early stages of creating/iterating on the following:

• Creating a call library used by sales coaches and frontline managers
• Providing new and existing AEs a demo bank for any closed-won opportunities to review the calls
• Building call scoring for both calls and demos for sales coaches to utilize and align on best practices
• Utilizing reporting to understand frontline manager Gong usage to provide feedback to sales leadership

We are trying to make use of every feature Gong has to offer. Adoption has failed in the past sales operations has pushed ideas but they have fallen short because of failure to get senior leader buy-in. What’s different about this time around is we will partner closer with leadership to understand pain points and solve with Gong’s functionality. 

To measure adoption, we plan to do the following at our org:

• Utilize dashboards/deal boards with integration to salesforce. Tracking warnings and reps activities to ensure proper coaching.
• Coaching by managers based on recorded calls. This is crucial especially as we plan to roll out new products/services so there will be new talk tracks.
• Have Office hours every week for the month month to answer any questions the team might have. While some of the reps can demo how they are utilizing gong, to serve as a learning for others.
• Leverage Call library and smart trackers. 

To get Sales Leadership buy-in/adoption, I believe the “Insights” feature will be key.  The ability to analyze a call with stats, instead of having to listen to it in its entirety is a game changer and a great time saver.  And what our organization has become to notice is those sales reps who are falling within the “Best Practice” range are often times our top performers in the field.  We can get our sales team to truly buy into this by using this competitively with one another.

We will, and have been tracking coaching activity From Q4, Coaching activity has improved by ~25%

To help promote adoption in CS we have held sessions with the leaders of each team to learn what information is important to them.  During these sessions we mostly focus on understanding their team’s specific role in the organization, but also explain features and proffer ideas on metrics that they might find useful. With the context we gain from team-specific learning sessions, we can help the team leaders build trackers, scorecards, etc that will provide a comprehensive view of the information that is most meaningful to them.      

To see how well Gong is catching on, we're going to do a couple of things. First, we'll send out a survey to everyone involved to get their feedback, while also keeping an eye on how many people are using it regularly, and if anyone needs extra help or training. Plus, we'll look at how often people are using it, and if there are any patterns to when they use it. This way, we can make sure Gong is being used the way we want it to be.

My company has used Gong for several years not but unfortunately it has not been fully adopted. 

The plan to get more adoption and buy in is as follows: 

1. Educate the Sales Enablement team on how to fully maximize usage of the tool. This certification program along with meeting with our Gong support team to learn best practices is the starting the point to up skill ourselves before rolling out to the larger team. 
2. Train the trainer(managers). We will take the crawl, walk, run approach and start with basic functionality and build to more advanced usage of the tools. 
3. Implement accountability metrics for managers. Review one gong call each month and provide feedback to the rep. We will then grow this number once we are comfortable and hitting these metrics consistently. 
4. Continually, make updates and clean up our Gong instance to streamline usage and ensure we are looking at good data. 

Open to feedback on this but this is the plan for now! Thanks! 

as a beginning, by meeting with frontline mangers and giving them ideas how Gong can help them improve their team’s performance: 

*Keyword trackers 

*Onboarding certification built of calls to listen to. 

*Using Deal>Drivers 

later on I’ll have a quarterly meeting to see how we can leverage Gong furthermore. 

My team is very early in the adoption of Gong. Currently, only our BDR team and CS teams are fully loaded into Gong, but they are not being tracked as they should be. 

The ownership lines in Gong have yet to be established, so I hope to come back to this post when we are ready to launch and let you know how exactly we plan on tracking this adoption!

As of right now, for the BDR team, our focus is on coaching and feedback requests via comments and then their manager’s use of scorecards and comments to provide said coaching and feedback. 

In order to ensure Gong adoption across our organization, we are following the below plan which is producing positive results

1. Introduced Gong as a tool across the organization
2. Identified resources to be the tool champion on Gong through training
3. Conduct frequent feature awareness sessions across organization
4. Added Gong call listening and reviews as part of team KPIs on monthly basis
5. BDR and Accounts team given the ownership to monitor effective useage of Gong

Our team has been quick to pick up on the features and are actively giving valuable feedbacks to their team mates and using reporting to capture relevant data

As we integrate Gong into our workflow, I'll set clear adoption and utilization objectives. One of my key initiatives is to curate a categorized call archive that serves both our new and experienced salespeople. To ensure consistent engagement, I'll set performance indicators that encourage salespeople to review their calls routinely. They'll conduct self-reviews, listen to colleagues' interactions, and facilitate feedback exchanges with leadership. I'll offer guidance on how to optimize their usage of Gong and set tailored alerts to spotlight areas of concern. I'll bolster sales leadership support by providing them tools to access and review specific calls during 1:1s. I'll also train them on the features that allow for quick call identification and monitoring. I will also include updates and encourage friendly competition (gamification) by including highlights and top performers in my weekly Sales Enablement newsletter. I aim to fully embed Gong's virtues into our sales processes!

As we look to optimize how our organization uses Gong, there are a few things that are top of mind to ensure adoption:

1. Provide 101-style training on how-to use Gong, based on role type (eg. Front-Line Manager vs. Sales Rep)
2. Incorporate monthly Gong KPIs into Manager’s workflow and competency matrixes to ensure accountability
3. Educate on the benefits of features like Scorecards, Feedback, and Insights to effectively coach Reps
4. Host weekly/monthly office hours where anyone can join to ask questions on how to use Gong more effectively

Unfortunately we’ve had so many other from-the-top initiatives come down that gong is just now becoming a priority and I’ve just now become part of the adoption plan. Right now, our BDRs are the only ones truly in the tool and I’ve been monitoring adoption by:

• conducting meeting every 2-4 weeks based on the phase (first phase was getting calls to their manager, second phase is their manager now utilizing the scorecard)
• Meeting with the BDR manager weekly to discuss team progress and collect feedback he hears from the team weekly.
• Go in and see who is sending calls/leaving comments for the BDR manager to review calls
• Beginning to set up the Call Library with the BDR manager.

We are looking to roll out Gong Forecast for the team and are just about to enter implementation: 

1. Have a COE set up  with defined roles and expectations for those roles to ensure a great implementation and role out. 
2. Create Scavenger Hunt for the team to explore Forecast features. 
3. Have a training drip campaing over 2 weeks that highlight different features that encourage deep dice. 
4. Setting adoption expectations of leadership and a space of understanding adoption precess and timeline. 
5. Creating a space for users to ask questions, find answers, and give others positive feedback. 
6. Setting up slack reminders to update forecasts
7. Setting up Slack messages to managers and leadership when their team updates the forecast. 
8. Having reports for dashboard at launch to track metrics and verification of accuracy. 
9. Defined and shared celebration moments, via prizes and certificates. 

These are some of the ways we can not only ensure a smooth rollout, but also a high adoption. 

If you see this reply, what am I missing? 

I think that the most important things I will be looking at early in the adoption phase will be scorecard usage. There has not been a way to review the performance of reps in the past so the implementation of recording and the ability to review those recordings is going to be a huge step forward. Managers being able to see whether the initiatives they are trying to pass on are actually being implemented is going to be an important proving point for Gong and I think that providing scorecards based on what the frontline managers have been wanting to see will allow them to finally test their initiatives.