Knowledge of the competition to gain competence and confidence are interconnected to professional success. Understand how competitive company information, product information and representative's information can add insight and valuable data for you. Learning Objectives Explain how knowledge of industry competition increases your success, Identify competitive product information representatives need to know, Explain key ingredients of an effective Competitive Knowledge Management System Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Confirming a sale takes both nature-or common sense, and nurture-good technique. You will learn how to look for verbal and visual buying signals throughout. We will show you how getting to yes requires stacking building blocks of smaller yeses and how to always advance the sale to the next realistic step. Learning Objectives Explain the ABC's of getting to yes, Identify buying signals, Implement steps for getting to yes, Build a pyramid of yeses that lead to a confirmation Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Discover how to create, execute, and control a defined territory plan. How to set sales goals, create opportunities, and route your area. Understand how to distinguish the important from the urgent. We will show you how to divide your contacts into categories and how often you need to communicate with the various contacts. We will guide you how to route your territory around high-payoff accounts and geographic clusters. Explore the importance to use only one calendar, a scheduling system, and electronic contact tools. Learning Objectives Apply seven steps to creating a territory management plan, Implement ABCD opportunity contact strategies, Calculate your value per hour, Utilize routing guidelines to maximize travel time Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Discover how ineffective habits limits success. We will show you the 'overreached referral' technique for reaching influencers. Understand how to find four types of decision-maker buying influencers. Understand the importance and how to always advance the sale to the next realistic stage. Learning Objectives Explain how ineffective habits limit success, Apply techniques to get your voice mail calls returned, Qualify prospects quickly with screen test questions, Utilize exit strategies to advance the sale Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Understand how to identify the symptoms of complacency that include feeling stuck, fear of change, boredom and if left unchecked and depression. All people experience complacency at different times, typically after a reaching a success. Implement strategies for overcoming complacency before it spreads. Learning Objectives Explain the dangers of team complacency, Apply eight ways to defeat complacency Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
The biggest reason for lack of team motivation are psychological (work satisfaction) and performance obstacles. Take steps to remove or reduce those obstacles within your control or influence. Understand how you can be responsible for creating the workplace in which you want to be-an individual's motivated attitude is contagious. Learning Objectives Apply six steps for removing work satisfaction obstacles, Implement nine ways to keep team members motivated Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Pros of consensus-building are to gain widespread agreement with a group, but it's more time consuming that voting. There's no room for competitive positions trying to win over others in consensus. Agreement requires what's best for the team. Discover ways to navigate agreements and implement six steps for reaching team consensus. Learning Objectives Describe the conditions for successfully reaching consensus, Apply a quick-consensus model for urgent decisions, Implement six steps for reaching team consensus Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Recommendation questions enlist buyers to tell you the benefits, increasing buy-in. They hear the benefits twice-once from you and again from themselves. Discover how to increase acceptance in your solution and how you can help teach buyers to convincingly present your solutions to others. Learning Objectives Explain the benefits of recommendation questions, Guide persuasive conversations using STÄR questions, Adapt questions to small and larger sales, Apply recommendation questions with non decision-makers Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Warm calls are contacts made to a prospect with whom you have a relationship connection either through your own networking or a third party. Understand the referral truths and why it is important for you. Discover how to apply a warm call prospecting strategy to sell more in less time and why the key to this is consistency. Learning Objectives Define referrals, Summarize three referral truths, Describe 11 warm call referral strategies for selling more in less time Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Discover the four stages of self-management. Discover the seven categories of competency that includes product and service knowledge, procedures, features and benefits, unique language, technical, organizational, and uniqueness. You will understand why it is important to invest the time in developing strong foundations in self-management skills whether you're a beginner or pro. Learning Objectives Describe the two 'faces' of professional development, Apply the four stages of self-management, Explain collaborative web-based learning, Summarize the seven categories of professional competencies Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams