Virtual Reality Sales Training

Industry Use Case

Create Custom VR Sales Training Simulations With Talespin

Sales Training Challenges

To build effective sales training programs, you face challenges like:

Keeping training relevant and applicable in ever-changing markets
Roleplay is unrealistic and isn’t scalable
Traditional e-learning isn't engaging
In-person seminars are expensive
Making sales training engaging and interesting
Reducing training costs
Making training accessible to distributed teams

VR Sales Training Benefits With Talespin

Customizable

Combining off-the-shelf VR content and custom content creation makes VR sales training programs tailored to your sales team's needs, and easy to update over time.

Scalable

VR content is easy to scale to distributed teams, and can also be consumed on desktop devices.

Enhanced realism

VR provides a highly realistic and interactive environment that allows sales professionals to practice their skills and gain confidence in real-world situations.

Increased knowledge retention and faster training

VR sales training allows trainees to fully engage with the material, resulting in improved retention of information and skills.

cost effective

VR sales training is a cost-effective solution that can save organizations time and money by reducing the need for in-person training sessions.

Measured skills improvement

Not only is immersive learning delivering an average of more than 20% improvement for skills practiced, it also offers a more tangible way to score and measure skills over time.

VR Sales Training Use Cases

Product demonstrations and pitches: VR technology can be used to create highly realistic product demonstrations that allow trainees to practice scripts walking customers through the key features and benefits of a product
Handling objections: Practice handling common objections for your product or service, or simulate difficult frequently asked questions to get practice repetitions for the real thing
Negotiation and closing deals: VR can be used to simulate deal term negotiation, pricing discussions, and closing deals
Building customer rapport and maintaining customer relationships

What Comes With the Talespin Platform?

No-Code Content Authoring Tool
Create custom VR learning modules for any sales training use case, or any other use case your team needs
Explore Copilot designer
16 Off-the-Shelf VR Learning Modules
Start using these immediately to teach your team fundamental leadership and communication skills and get them started with VR
Content Library
Built-In Skills Analytics
Measure learner performance in VR learning modules so you can measure skills development plan talent management programs
Explore Dashboard

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Frequently Asked Questions About Virtual Reality Sales Training Programs

What is Virtual Reality Sales Training?
Virtual reality sales training is a learning modality that uses VR technology to help sales professionals practice key skills. In VR training simulations sales professionals can practice role play with virtual human characters representing customers. These emotionally realistic simulations can be used to teach sales skills ranging from overcoming objections and negotiations to building customer rapport and closing deals.
What are examples of sales skills and techniques you can teach with VR?
VR sales training can be used for a variety of training use cases. These include:

- Prospecting Calls and Qualifying Leads
- Building Customer Rapport and Maintaining Customer Relationships
- Identifying Customer Needs
- Pitching Products and Services
- Collaborating With Buyers
- Communicating with Different Buyer Personas
- Overcoming Customer Objections
- Responding to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Discussing Competitors
- Negotiating and Closing Deals
Read our blog post "Virtual Reality Sales Training Use Cases"
Can I create custom VR Sales Training modules?
Yes, Talespin’s VR training platform features a no-code XR content authoring tool called CoPilot Designer. CoPilot Designer allows you to create custom sales training simulations without the need to code, animate, or have any VR specific technical skills—this enables learning designers, instructional designers, and other learning professionals to create custom VR training modules in which sales professionals practice soft skills training with virtual human characters.
Read our blog post "How Does A Custom VR Training Content Creation Tool Work? - Overview Of Key Features"
What distribution options are there for VR Sales Training?
VR sales training content created with the Talespin platform can be distributed across several learning modalities. Currently, our training modules can be delivered to learners on Meta Quest 2 VR headsets and via 2D browser streaming on Mac and PC devices.
Read our blog post "Distributing Immersive Learning Content: An Overview Of XR Devices, 2D Devices And LMS Integration For Immersive Learning"
How can I measure skills development for sales professionals using VR?
VR sales training programs delivered with Talespin can use the platform’s Dashboard to track skills development. Examples of the data that can be collected and measured with our platform include:
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- Individual learner performance within a specific learning module, including data on the application of specific skills taught within the module
- Historic learner performance for a specific learning module. Ex. Measuring improvement over time for a particular learning module
- Historic learner performance for specific skills. Ex. Assessing the application of empathy across multiple learning modules
- Learning module performance for a group of learners at a team, department, or organizational level. Ex. Analyzing a sales team’s performance on a specific VR sales training module
- Historic performance for specific skills for a group of learners at a team, department, or organizational level. Ex. Assessing a sales team’s development of specific sales skills over time
Are VR Sales Training and virtual sales training the same thing?
VR sales training is actually a type of virtual sales training, or it can be thought of as one of several virtual sales training modalities. For example, e-learning and role play via video conferencing software are other examples of virtual sales training. VR sales training is still remote like these other solutions, but takes a different approach as it presents learners with highly scalable, realistic, and effective VR simulations that teach sales skills.
Read our blog post "Virtual Reality Sales Training Benefits"