Specialist · Gold edition

Your first 90 days in the seat

5 lessons · 48 min total · 4 checkpoints

Ramp without drowning: your first pipeline, first deals, first review.

What you’ll learn

  • What a ramp period actually is — ramped quota, draws, guarantees — and honest data on how long new reps take to produce, so you can calibrate against reality instead of dread.
  • A concrete 30-day learning plan: product, ICP, competition, process, CRM and call listening, with a week-by-week checklist and a "teach it back" test that proves you've learned it.
  • How to build a first pipeline from nothing — territory analysis, the first 50 accounts, the first sequences — and the arithmetic of how long activity takes to become pipeline.
  • Days 31–60: your first solo discovery calls, the first demo you lead, how to ask for help without looking weak, and the one-deal-end-to-end milestone.
  • Days 61–90: first proposal, first negotiation, first close or first honest forecast, and how to run a pipeline review your manager believes.
  • How to manage your manager — one-to-ones worth having, asking for coaching, escalating blocked deals, and what "coachable" looks like in practice rather than in adjectives.
  • Territory tiering and calendar architecture: the discipline that separates reps who ramp from reps who drown, and the trap of activity theatre.
  • The honest signals that it's going badly, what to do about each, how UK capability procedures and PIPs actually work, and how to tell a wrong role from a wrong you.
  • A 30/60/90 scoreboard by role, so you can self-assess instead of guess.