Trust is our confidence in the integrity, strength, and competence of someone to meet our expectations. Discover the four keys to building a professional 'trust fund'. We will guide you how to deliver and receive feedback while maintain trust. Understand the behaviors that feed trust and those that starve trust. Learning Objectives Establish a 'Trust Fund', Explain how to maintain trust during feedback, Implement five behaviors that show respect Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Moments of Truth are 'touch points' in time that a customer evaluates when giving you a service 'score.' Apply our 10 tips for great greetings md introductions. Discover why it is important to choose your opening words selectively. We will show you how to strike the perfect balance between professionalism and 'personalism'. Learning Objectives Describe the Primary Effect's influence on first impressions, Implement effective greeting words choices, Balance professionalism with personalism Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Concentrating to hear messages is the first phase of authentic listening. Understand why verbal, vocal, and visual messages need to be congruent in order to be believable. Discover how to be fully present and use our tips for improved concentration. Learning Objectives The following are some of the key outcomes in this course: Summarize concentration challenges Explain how to be a congruent communicator Apply tips for increasing concentration Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Confidence is a situational expectation of positive outcomes while developing strengths and managing weaknesses. We will help you to identify your strengths and four ways to develop them. Manage your weaknesses to get the job done right. Learning Objectives Describe how confidence builds rapport, Identify your strengths, Implement four ways to develop your strengths confidence Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Listening is challenged by attention and inference-making problems. Critical listening demands concentration, curiosity, and clarity with organization and evaluation. Discover how to increase understanding and what is the difference between people-orientated, action-orientated, content-orientated and time-orientated. Learning Objectives Demonstrate concentration, curiosity, and clarity as a critical listener, Explain how to give appropriate feedback, Identify five listening styles to meet different needs Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Understand the difference between direct and indirect communication. We communicate at our best when balancing directness with indirectness, being frank and diplomatic. Understand how to ask clarification questions to increase clarity and using the correct language with your customer. Learning Objectives Explain the difference between direct and indirect communication, Apply six tips for increasing listening clarity, Communicate in your customer's "language" Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Negotiation is necessary when a buyer and seller can't agree. Understand the two strategies to negotiate and how to use a variety of techniques to increase your personal negotiating power. We will unpack each step of the negotiation process and guide you through all you need to know to master any negotiation. Learning Objectives Define key negotiation concepts, Explain how negotiations may be used to resolve conflict, Identify opportunities for negotiation, Apply two win-win negotiation strategies Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Think of a presentation organized as parts of a body: head and eyes, body, legs, and feet. We will guide you to select and outline supporting materials for each main point. Discover how to prepare your introduction and summary to deliver your main points. Your opener and close are the most impactful parts of your presentation. Learning Objectives Explain how to create a presentation using four parts of the "presentation body", Prepare effective visuals, transitions, introductions, and summaries, Write compelling openers, Recommend a closing call to action Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
By understanding and handling customer objections correctly, these can most of the time be turned into a purchase. Understand how to identify every prospect's value-driver-the primary value that will ultimately drive the decision to move forward. We will show you five steps for handling objections and show you why you should never overlook often hidden value-drivers such as gaining praise or being popular. Learning Objectives Describe the role of hidden Value-Drivers in making a sale, Implement the do's and don'ts of handling objections, Apply five steps to handling concerns Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
When someone says they're not interested, determine if it's an informed or uninformed response. Educate prospects on what they need to know before ruling you out. Discover questions to ask a prospect or indifferent buyer with an objection. Determine if a price related concern is a condition or an objection and how to handle each. Learning Objectives Explain how to regain control of the conversation, Summarize multiple responses to seven common objections Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams