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Sales Ops Readiness Checklist

A 21-question diagnostic to evaluate whether your organization has the foundational elements of a functioning sales operations capability.

The problem

Most teams know something is off in their sales operations, but they cannot pinpoint what is missing. This checklist gives you a structured way to assess readiness across process, tooling, data, and enablement.

What is inside

  • Process maturity across your sales cycle
  • CRM configuration and data hygiene baseline
  • Pipeline management and forecasting fundamentals
  • Territory and quota planning readiness
  • Enablement and onboarding infrastructure

21 questions that separate businesses with a real revenue engine from businesses running on memory and hope.

Score yourself honestly. If you answer "no" to 6 or more, you have operational drag that is costing you revenue.

Pipeline and Qualification

  1. Can you pull your top 5 opportunities by weighted value from your CRM in under 60 seconds?
  2. Do your lifecycle stages have clear exit criteria, or do leads sit in "Contacted" forever?
  3. Is there a defined handoff from marketing-qualified to sales-qualified?
  4. Can a new team member understand your pipeline in under 10 minutes?
  5. Do you disqualify leads, or do they just go quiet?

Quote-to-Cash

  1. Can a buyer go from "interested" to "paid" without you sending a manual email?
  2. Is your proposal process templated, or does every deal get a custom document?
  3. Do you know your average time-to-close by offer type?
  4. Is invoicing triggered automatically when a deal closes, or does someone remember to do it?
  5. Can you see which revenue is recurring vs. one-time without manual tracking?

CRM Discipline

  1. Does your CRM reflect reality, or is it a graveyard of stale records?
  2. Is there one owner for every active opportunity?
  3. Are next steps defined for every open deal?
  4. Do you review pipeline weekly with a defined cadence?
  5. Can you pull a revenue forecast without asking three people?

Enablement and Adoption

  1. Does your team use the same language for deal stages?
  2. Do new hires have a defined onboarding path for your sales process?
  3. Are your playbooks written down, or do they live in someone's head?
  4. Do you measure adoption of your process, or just outcomes?

Feedback and Improvement

  1. Do you capture closed-lost reasons in a structured way?
  2. Does delivery feedback ever make it back into your sales process?

Scoring

  • 0-5 "no" answers: Your operations are solid. Look for optimization, not overhaul.
  • 6-10 "no" answers: You have specific gaps. A focused advisory session can prioritize fixes.
  • 11-15 "no" answers: Your operations are creating drag. A diagnostic will map the problems and build a plan.
  • 16+ "no" answers: You are operating on instinct. Start with a Rapid Clarity Session to identify the highest-impact fix.

What to do next

If this checklist surfaced problems you already knew about but haven't fixed — that is the signal. The gap between knowing and doing is where revenue dies.

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