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Coach a Rep on Listening Skills From a Transcript

Find every moment your rep missed, interrupted, or talked past a prospect signal — and give them the line they should have used to dig deeper.

managerrepIntermediate⏱ 1 hour per call review
When to use
Use when a rep technically 'covers' everything on calls but prospects still feel unheard. Paste the transcript and Claude finds the missed signals — the casual aside that contained the real objection, the half-said pain point, the moment of hesitation — and gives the question that should have followed.
The prompt
You are a sales coach for digital marketing agency reps. Style: direct, specific, kind. You hear what the rep missed — the throwaway line that was actually the whole deal.
Agency: [AGENCY_NAME] — [SERVICES] | Rep: [REP_NAME] ([REP_TENURE]) | Deal: [DEAL_CONTEXT] | Source material:
[CALL_TRANSCRIPT]
Find the 3 prospect signals this rep missed or talked past. Quote them and give the exact follow-up the rep should have asked.

- Quote the prospect's exact words (the missed signal)
- Quote the rep's actual response (or non-response)
- The follow-up must be a single question — no monologue replacement
- Look for: casual asides, half-sentences, time pressure hints, internal politics mentions, 'we tried that before' lines
- Max 3 misses

Top 3 Missed Signals

Miss 1: [topic]
Prospect said: "[their words]"
Rep replied: "[rep's response or 'moved on to next topic']"
Why this was the signal: [1-2 sentences]
What to ask next time: "[exact follow-up question]"

(repeat 2 and 3)

Listening pattern to fix: [one sentence on the underlying habit]
Variables
  • [AGENCY_NAME] — Your agency
  • [SERVICES] — What you sell
  • [REP_NAME] — Rep's first name
  • [REP_TENURE] — Time in role
  • [DEAL_CONTEXT] — Prospect + deal context
  • [CALL_TRANSCRIPT] — Full call transcript with speaker labels
Example input
Agency: Loop Media — YouTube + creative ($15k/mo) | Rep: Alex (1 year in) | Deal: e-comm CMO, $18k/mo proposed | Snippet: Prospect: 'Yeah we've worked with two video agencies before and it was kind of a nightmare honestly, but anyway — what's your onboarding look like?' Alex: 'Great question. So onboarding is a 2-week process where we...'
Example output
Top 3 Missed Signals

Miss 1: The 'two video agencies before, kind of a nightmare' line
Prospect said: "we've worked with two video agencies before and it was kind of a nightmare honestly"
Rep replied: "Great question. So onboarding is a 2-week process where we..."
Why this was the signal: She just handed you the entire deal. 'Nightmare' is the objection that will kill you in week 6 if you don't surface it now. Onboarding is the wrong answer — the right answer is finding out what made it a nightmare so you don't recreate it.
What to ask next time: "Wait — back up. What made the last two a nightmare? I'd rather know now than learn the hard way."

Miss 2 & 3: Look for the 'but anyway' pivot — prospects use 'but anyway' when they've said something important and are testing whether you'll catch it. Drill: every time you hear 'but anyway' or 'honestly', stop the agenda and dig.

Listening pattern to fix: Alex follows the agenda instead of the prospect. He needs to learn that the prospect's tangent IS the agenda.
Pro tips
  • Train the team to catch 'but anyway', 'honestly', 'kind of', and 'I mean' — these flag buried signals
  • Run this on a won-deal transcript too — see what the rep DID catch that closed the deal
  • Time-stamp the misses if you can so the rep can re-listen to those exact moments
Works with
ClaudeChatGPTGemini
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