enablement

What is the opposite of enablement? Here is what we hold, with its meaning and related words.

Noun — In business, the practice of giving a team the training, content, tools and information they need to do their job well, most often used of sales teams.

Synonyms by Meaning

1. noun business jargon

In business, the practice of giving a team the training, content, tools and information they need to do their job well, most often used of sales teams.

“She runs enablement for the commercial organisation.”

sales enablement capability building training and support

2. noun

The act of making something possible, or the state of being made possible.

“The grant funded the enablement of remote learning in rural schools.”

facilitation empowerment provision

How to use enablement

The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.

sales enablement enablement team partner enablement enablement content

Heavily used in software and SaaS companies; outside that world it can read as corporate jargon.

Etymology

From the verb 'enable', from 'en-' (to make, put into) plus 'able', with the noun-forming suffix '-ment'.

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Frequently asked questions

What does a sales enablement team actually do?

It equips salespeople to sell: onboarding and training new reps, producing pitch decks, battlecards and case studies, running the sales tooling, and feeding back to product and marketing on what customers actually object to. The measure of success is usually shorter ramp time for new hires and higher win rates.

What is the difference between enablement and training?

Training is a set of events that teach skills. Enablement is the whole ongoing system around performance, including content, tools, processes and coaching, with training as one component of it.

What is the difference between enablement and empowerment?

Enablement is about capability: giving people what they need to do the work. Empowerment is about authority: giving them permission to decide. A team can be well enabled and still unable to act without sign-off.

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