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Appreciative Inquiry is a process of asking positive questions and envisioning the future that uncovers the best in people and organizations and enabling positive change. Understand the seven core principles of Appreciative Inquiry and you will be able to apply the five stage model to consider conditions necessary for success using appreciative inquiry. Learning Objectives Apply a process that enables faster, positive change, Implement the core principles of appreciative inquiry Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Discover the four reasons you should have a meeting and how you decide who should attend. Without the correct attendees you are wasting your time and theirs. Understand how to run an effective meeting and why it is important to balance structure with content and interaction. Apply our do's and don'ts and implement time-saving tips to run productive meetings in half the time. Learning Objectives Apply the four reasons for holding a meeting, Identify who should attend, Prepare an effective agenda, Implement time-saving tips for getting results in half the time Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Initiative is the ability to take action without specific directives from others and is critical to organizations to stay competitive. Discover how you can achieve balanced flexibility while understanding how to see worthwhile opportunities. We will show you how to act responsibly without being told what to do. Learning Objectives Explain the importance of taking responsible initiative, Exhibit personal attributes for responsible initiative, Apply ways to go above and beyond Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Problem recognition occurs when you become aware of a gap between where you are and where you want to be. We will guide you to proactively look for hidden problems using tools such as a gap analysis, surveys and interviews. How do you unpack a problem to see the entire problem and not only a small part of the problem? Understand what you can do to initiate problem recognition and how you can gather data. Learning Objectives Define a problem, Recognize early symptoms of common problems, Initiate a formal problem recognition process Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Problem definitions provide a target boundary, description, and measure of success. To accurately define a problem, use techniques such as data collection, symptom analysis, brainstorming, key-word analysis, force-field analysis, writing it down, and writing a conflict definition. Discover why most problems exist and how to solve the root cause of a problem. Understand the difference between being at cause or at affect and how you can be in control. Learning Objectives Explain the importance of accurate problem definition, Implement nine ways to accurately define problems, Analyze and identify root causes Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Understand why the most important sale you'll ever make is to yourself and why you should confirm a sale and not close them. Discover how to use the principles of positive expectancy to confirm more sales and how to maintain positive expectancy. Learning Objectives Explain the difference between closing and confirming sales, Define the most important 'close' you'll ever make, Describe how positive expectancy confirms more sales 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

Closing ratios are the number of activities performed, compared to results achieved. Closing ratios can be expressed in many of your sales activities such as people called, to appointments booked. We will guide you how to track sales activities and how this will inform you where you are or are not getting results from. To increase closing your ratios, examine each step in the sales process. Learning Objectives Define closing ratios, Explain the importance of knowing your closing ratios to control sales results, Explain how to improve your closing ratios, Diagnose weak links in your sales process Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Understand how you can identify the four buying styles from the definite-maybe buyers, impulse buyers, investigators and hard-bargainers. Discover the various strategies to apply to each of the buying styles and how to manage them. Learning Objectives Describe clues for identifying the four buying styles, Implement strategies how develop behavioral flexibility to confirm more sales, Explain the effects of stress on buying decisions Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Understand ten techniques to confirm and close sales and why they often most effective when combined with each other. These include the direct sales approach, incentive confirmations and deadline events to help motivate the buying decision. Learning Objectives Apply 10 techniques to confirm and close sales, Identify multiple script examples for each technique Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams