Sales Quick Start (SQS) Workshop

Sales Quick Start Workshop

• NOTE: The Sales Quick Start (SQS) Workshop is MANDATORY for all new Sales Team Members. If you must cancel for any reason, please be sure to obtain Regional Director approval in writing.
• After completing the virtual, self-paced Sales Quick Start learning path, new sales team members (along with new Solution Architects, Customer Success Managers, and Sales Development Rep) participate in an interactive in-person workshop where participants practice applying this new knowledge in fun and challenging ways including mock calls, role plays, and group activities
  • As a result, new sales team members exit Sales Quick Start more confident and capable in their ability to lead an effective discovery call with a customer or prospect
  • Participants also benefit by establishing a community of similarly-tenured peers and more experienced mentors and colleagues to support each others’ growth and development at GitLab
• Note: The Results Value is our highest priority and we strive to deliver sales training and enablement remotely as much as possible and reserve in-person formats only for circumstances when we can’t obtain the desired results via remote/virtual delivery)
  • Iteration is expected to keep moving what we can to remote models once we can achieve the same or better results that way
• Future iteration of this process will define what sales team members need to KNOW, DO, and BE ABLE TO ARTICULATE (by sales role, customer segment, and geo as appropriate) after they complete the above and support those learning objectives as they continue their ramp to GitLab sales performance excellence!

Sales Quick Start In-Person Workshop Agenda

This SQS 2024 Agenda sheet contains the most up to date agenda for our in-person Sales Quick Start Workshop. Please check the tabs at the bottom of this document to see each day’s agenda. This agenda is subject to change based on the individual needs of the class and the availability of SMEs, but we will make every effort to surface those changes in this document.

Sales Quick Start Remote Agenda

SQS 45 - April 2025

• Workshop times quoted are United States Eastern Standard Daylight Time (New York) (UTC -4)

DATE	START TIME	END TIME	ACTIVITY	SME ASSIGNED
Apr 2, 2025	10:00a ET	11:00a ET	Welcome Call	Field Enablement
Apr 7, 2025	10:30a ET	10:50a ET	Operational Excellence: Into to Gitlab Field Security	Field Security
Apr 7, 2025	11:00a ET	11:50a ET	Solution Focus: Intro to Competition	Product Marketing
Apr 8, 2025	10:00a ET	11:20a ET	Intro to Ecosystem Sales	Ecosystem Team
Apr 9, 2025	10:00a ET	10:20a ET	Operational Excellence: Intro to GitLab Legal	Legal Team
Apr 9, 2025	10:30a ET	11:20a ET	Discussion: Professional Services	Professional Services
Apr 9, 2025	11:30a ET	12:20p ET	Operational Excellence: Working with Sales Dev	Marketing Enablement
Apr 10, 2025	10:00a ET	10:50a ET	Customer Focus: Customer Success Overview	Customer Success Team
Apr 10, 2025	11:30a ET	11:55a ET	Renewals Manager Overview	Renewals Team
Apr 11, 2025	10:00a ET	10:50a ET	Command of the Message: MEDDPPICC	Field Enablement
Apr 11, 2025	11:00a ET	11:30a ET	Intro to Sales Ops + Deal Desk	RSOE Team
Apr 14, 2025	10:30a ET	11:50a ET	Command of the Message: Essential Questions Exercise	Field Enablement
Apr 15, 2025	10:30a ET	11:50a ET	Command of the Message: Value Card Exercise	Field Enablement
Apr 16, 2025	10:30a ET	11:50a ET	Command of the Message: Discovery Question Exercise	Field Enablement
Apr 17, 2025	10:30a ET	11:50a ET	Command of the Message: Differentiator Exercise	Field Enablement
Apr 21 - 25, 2025	10:00a ET	10:50a ET	Mock Discovery Calls	Mock Customers

SQS 46 - June 2025

• Workshop times quoted are United States Eastern Standard Daylight Time (New York) (UTC -4)

DATE	START TIME	END TIME	ACTIVITY	SME ASSIGNED
Jun 4, 2025	10:00a ET	11:00a ET	Welcome Call	Field Enablement
Jun 9, 2025	10:30a ET	10:50a ET	Operational Excellence: Into to Gitlab Field Security	Field Security
Jun 9, 2025	11:00a ET	11:50a ET	Solution Focus: Intro to Competition	Product Marketing
Jun 10, 2025	10:00a ET	11:20a ET	Intro to Ecosystem Sales	Ecosystem Team
Jun 11, 2025	10:00a ET	10:20a ET	Operational Excellence: Intro to GitLab Legal	Legal Team
Jun 11, 2025	10:30a ET	11:20a ET	Discussion: Professional Services	Professional Services
Jun 11, 2025	11:30a ET	12:20p ET	Operational Excellence: Working with Sales Dev	Marketing Enablement
Jun 12, 2025	10:00a ET	10:50a ET	Customer Focus: Customer Success Overview	Customer Success Team
Jun 12, 2025	11:30a ET	11:55a ET	Renewals Manager Overview	Renewals Team
Jun 13, 2025	10:00a ET	10:50a ET	Command of the Message: MEDDPPICC	Field Enablement
Jun 13, 2025	11:00a ET	11:30a ET	Intro to Sales Ops + Deal Desk	RSOE Team
Jun 16, 2025	10:30a ET	11:50a ET	Command of the Message: Essential Questions Exercise	Field Enablement
Jun 17, 2025	10:30a ET	11:50a ET	Command of the Message: Value Card Exercise	Field Enablement
Jun 18, 2025	10:30a ET	11:50a ET	Command of the Message: Discovery Question Exercise	Field Enablement
Jun 19, 2025	10:30a ET	11:50a ET	Command of the Message: Differentiator Exercise	Field Enablement
Jun 23 - 25, 2025	10:00a ET	10:50a ET	Mock Discovery Calls	Mock Customers