Skip to content Not forty observations and a recommendation to do everything. A clear picture of where you stand, a prioritised list of what to fix and in what order, a view on the value at stake, and a board-ready summary you can act on.
… it’s not. It is a diagnosis you can act on, in the right order to do it, with everyone on board with the journey.
Most commercial assessments produce a score. You learn that you are mid-range on pipeline management, somewhere below your peer group, and marginally ahead of where you were last year. It is interesting. It is rarely useful. Nobody has ever walked into a board meeting and asked for four million pounds on the strength of a maturity rating.
The COMPOSE Sales Diagnostic is built for the decision that comes next. It assesses the whole commercial function across 45 critical dimensions, using four independent evidence streams, then tells you what is genuinely capping growth, what each constraint is worth, and which three or four things to do first.
You come out of it with a plan, an order and a number. Not a rating.
Not a maturity score. A score tells you where you rank, not what to do on Monday.
Four streams, not one survey. Where they disagree is usually where the answer is.
Sized to what you can absorb. The plan respects your capacity, or it never starts.
Ends in a decision. Three or four moves, in order, each with the evidence behind it.
Evidence before anything gets designed.
The COMPOSE Sales Diagnostic is a structured assessment of the whole commercial function, tested against 45 critical dimensions across the six pillars. It is not a discovery call and it is not a two-day workshop. It is a proper piece of work, run in your business, using your data and your people.
Most organisations already have a theory about what is wrong. The Diagnostic tests it, and tells you what is actually capping growth.
Critical dimensions assessed
Pillars covered, nothing left outside the frame
Independent evidence streams
Sequenced plan you can take to a board
Four streams. One picture.
Each stream is run independently, then read together. They rarely agree, and the gaps between them are usually where the answer is.
Interviews
Structured conversations with leadership, front-line managers and sellers, run separately. Those three groups rarely describe the same company, and that difference matters more than any one of their accounts.
Surveys
Reach across the whole function rather than the handful of people available for interview. Anonymous, comparable across teams and geographies, and they surface what people will not say in a room.
Performance analysis
Pipeline and forecast history, attainment across the team rather than in aggregate, win and loss patterns, conversion by stage, and how territories and segments perform against the way they were drawn.
Time and motion
Where the organisation actually spends its week, set against where the plan needs it to. Almost nobody measures this, and it is often the single clearest explanation of why the number is not moving.
The findings are clear. The direction to go in is next.
A short series of workshops turns the evidence into a decision. Your leadership team in the room, working the trade-offs rather than being presented to.
Direction
What good looks like in this business, and what the function needs to become to reach the plan.
Investment
Where the money and effort should go, and just as importantly where it should not go this year.
Constraints
The internal and external realities shaping the decision: board appetite, capacity, market conditions, timing.
Sequence
What happens first, what depends on it, and what can safely wait until next year.
One honest picture of the whole function.
Not forty observations and a recommendation to do everything. A clear, evidenced picture of where you stand, a prioritised list of what to fix and in what order, a view on the value at stake, and a board-ready summary you can act on.
Where you are today
A scored baseline across all 45 dimensions and six pillars, comparable across regions and teams, and repeatable later to show movement.
Where the gaps are
What is genuinely constraining performance, what each gap is costing in growth terms, and which ones are causes rather than symptoms.
What the evidence says
Every finding traced to its source, so it can be interrogated rather than taken on trust. Where the streams disagree, that is shown too.
Where to start
The three or four moves that matter, sequenced so the first makes the second possible, and sized against what the business can absorb.
A clear answer, without committing to a programme.
The COMPOSE Sales Partners™ Diagnostic stands on its own.
It runs quickly, with engagement from those critical to the future design, and assesses your commercial capabilities against a framework used across dozens of companies around the world.
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Board ready
Evidenced, sequenced and costed, so it can be defended line by line rather than summarised.
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Fast and self-contained
A defined piece of work with a start, an end and a deliverable. Not an open-ended engagement.
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No commitment beyond it
Nothing here obliges you to a transformation programme. The findings are yours either way.
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An honest baseline
Where you are, where you could get to, and what stands between the two. Including the awkward parts.
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A route, not a wish list
Priorities in order, sized against capacity, so the plan is one the business can actually execute.
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Engaging to be part of
Your people are interviewed, surveyed and in the workshops. Most say it is the first time anyone asked.
Organisations that stall on sales transformation are rarely short of insight, and rarely short of the capacity to act. They understand their problems well, often better than any outside party will after six weeks. What breaks down is operationalisation: the point where a set of findings has to become owned work, in a defensible order, with a leadership team that agrees on what matters and a rhythm that survives the quarter. Without that, good analysis turns into piecemeal activity and the number does not move.
The COMPOSE Sales Diagnostic is built to close that gap. It assesses the whole commercial function against 45 critical dimensions, using interviews, surveys, performance analysis and time and motion study, then turns what it finds into a sequenced plan with alignment behind it.
You will know where growth is capped, what it is worth, and exactly what to do first.
Align on the evidence
The executive team agrees what is actually true before anything is committed.
Decide what to fix
Every finding closed out: fix now, fix later, or accept, with value attached.
Sequence and fund
An order the business can absorb, and an investment case a board can approve.
Name the owners
A person carries each workstream. Not a function, not a committee.
Design the cadence
Governance and rhythm built into how the function already runs.
Reassess and rebaseline
Rerun the 45 dimensions each year and see what actually moved.
The most useful first conversation is a structured score of where your commercial organisation stands across all six pillars, and what to do about it.
A practitioner-led sales transformation practice anchored on the COMPOSE Sales Model®.
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