Nikhil Mirza
Sr Director, Sales Operations, Taboola
Deal blocker maneuvers
Use this skill after any meaningful interaction on a complex deal — a call, a stakeholder meeting, a procurement exchange — when the question is not "what's missing" but "what do I actually run next week." Takes a qualification assessment (supplied, or scored here from primary evidence), reads it against what the deal's stage should already have proven rather than against an absolute bar, and converts the single worst blocker into a two-cycle maneuver the rep can save and execute: trigger conditions, a pre-mortem, a go/no-go checklist, a verbatim opening, IF/THEN counter-moves, and explicit abort criteria. Covers deal coaching, deal strategy, forecast defence, stalled and blocked deals, gone-dark champions, procurement stalls, third-party and partner blockers, deal reviews, and "this deal is stuck and I don't know why." Built for enterprise and complex deals; not for transactional velocity motions.