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Soft skills and sales

Sales and soft skills practice with characters who talk back.

Your people practice real conversations out loud: a buyer pushing back on price, an upset customer, a hard talk with an employee, a product launch. The character responds to what they actually say, and the platform records the full transcript, scores the key moments, and shows managers exactly where the conversation turned.

For sales teams, customer service and call centers, managers, and HR and L&D teams.

In-headset view of the Sales objection handling module

In the headset: Sales objection handling

Training today

  • Role-play depends on the partner

    Practicing with a coworker is awkward, and every partner plays the customer differently.

  • Most practice happens on real customers

    New reps learn to handle objections on live calls, where a bad answer costs a deal.

  • Managers can’t hear every conversation

    Coaching is based on the few calls a manager happened to sit in on.

With VR practice

  • The same tough customer for everyone

    Every learner meets the same character and the same objections, so practice is fair and comparable.

  • Mistakes that cost nothing

    Reps try an answer, hear how it lands, and try again before a real deal is on the line.

  • Coaching from what was actually said

    Managers review the transcript of each practice conversation and coach the specific moment.

This is for

  • Sales leaders and enablement teams
  • Customer service and call center managers
  • HR and learning and development teams
  • Team leads and new managers

How it works

Learn, practice, review.

  1. 01

    Learn

    We build the characters and scenarios from your playbooks, product sheets, policies, and real calls. Learners read a short brief on the situation before they start.

  2. 02

    Practice

    Learners talk out loud with a buyer, customer, or employee who responds to what they say. They can repeat the conversation and try a different approach.

  3. 03

    Review

    Each conversation is saved as a transcript with its key moments. Managers coach the specific moment that went well or badly, and see progress across the team.

Across industries

The same practice, in any industry.

Banking and insurance

  • Onboarding relationship managers
  • Explaining products and fees clearly
  • Handling complaints in a branch

Retail and hospitality

  • Helping a customer choose
  • Handling returns and complaints
  • Front desk and guest recovery

Healthcare

  • Patient communication
  • Difficult family conversations
  • Front desk and scheduling calls

Pharma and medical devices

  • Product launch practice for sales reps
  • Talking with clinicians about a product
  • Handling questions within approved claims

Public sector

  • Calming an upset member of the public
  • Explaining eligibility and next steps
  • Phone and counter service

Higher education

  • Advising conversations
  • Front desk and enrollment calls
  • Workplace communication for new hires

More scenarios

Conversations for every team that talks to people.

Sales teams

Account executives, SDRs, new hires

Rehearse the conversations that move a deal forward, with your product and your pricing.

  • Handling price and timing objections
  • Running a discovery call
  • Negotiating terms
  • Asking for a clear next step
  • Product launches and new feature pitches

Customer-facing teams

Customer service, front desk, call centers, retail

Practice staying calm and solving the problem when the customer is upset.

  • De-escalating an angry customer
  • Recovering after a service failure
  • Saying no while keeping the customer
  • Handing off to a supervisor

Managers and HR

New managers, team leads, HR partners

Practice the conversations people dread, from feedback to a performance review.

  • Giving difficult feedback
  • A performance conversation
  • Setting expectations with a new hire
  • Workplace communication for new hires

A scenario, step by step

A buyer pushes back on price

Twenty minutes into a good call, the operations director says your proposal is more than they budgeted.

  1. Hear it out

    Let the buyer finish, and acknowledge the concern without rushing to discount.

  2. Ask before answering

    Find out what the budget is compared against and what is driving the concern.

  3. Connect value to their problem

    Tie the price to the cost of the problem they described earlier in the call.

  4. Agree a next step

    Leave with a specific next step, such as a call with their finance lead.

Afterward: The manager reads the transcript, sees whether the rep asked before answering, and hears how the buyer responded.

Analytics and reports

From one person in a headset to your whole program.

Every action, decision, and word in a module is captured, analyzed against your standard, and reported in the Bubbler Hub. Supervisors see it at five levels.

  1. 01

    Live view

    Watch what the learner sees in the headset from a laptop or tablet, with the current task, step, and progress. The video stream isn’t stored; the session record is.

  2. 02

    Session record

    Every step taken or missed, in order and timed, plus the decisions the learner made and what they said.

  3. 03

    Learner history

    Every attempt for each person, so you can see what improved and what still needs another run.

  4. 04

    Program dashboard

    Completion across the group, the steps most people miss, and who needs another attempt or a conversation.

  5. 05

    Reports and exports

    Dated completion reports for each person, as PDF or data files, for training files, audits, and accreditation.

What is recorded in a conversation.

Transcript
Everything the learner and the character said, in order.
Questions asked
How many open questions the learner asked, and when.
Key moments
Whether the learner acknowledged the concern, addressed it, and stayed on track.
Talk time
How much of the conversation each side spent talking.
Outcome
How the conversation ended, such as an agreed next step or a customer who left unhappy.

New rep onboarding, Q4

Sample team, fictional data

Sample
Reps enrolled
14
2 hiring classes
Ready for live calls
9
5 still practicing
Average attempts
3.6
per conversation
Next step agreed
61%
of final attempts

Most-missed moments, share of the group

  • Asked a question before answering the objection47%
  • Tied price to the buyer’s stated problem36%
  • Asked for a specific next step28%
  • Acknowledged the concern first14%
PersonConversationAttemptsNext step
K. LopesCompletePrice objection4Shadow live calls
D. AhmedPracticingDiscovery call2More open questions
R. WalshCompletePrice objection3None
A. MensahNot startedNegotiation0Assign this week
Sample program view. Names and numbers are made up to show the layout.

Questions

Before you book a call.

The characters respond to what learners say, but they are practice partners, not real customers. Records describe the practice conversation, not anyone’s job performance.

They talk out loud, the same way they would on a call or in a meeting. The character listens and answers.

Which conversation costs you the most when it goes badly?

Tell us the conversation and who has it. We’ll show you how practice and review would work for your team.

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