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Understand how you can categorize decisions to make decisions more effectively. Take a measured approach with the four steps to decision making. How do you anticipate the implementation of your decision by asking what, who, when, where and how questions? Understand how to monitor implementation through observation of key success indicators. Learning Objectives Make better decisions more quickly, Apply four stages to decision-making, Utilize logical and intuitive decision-making techniques Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Be balanced in your approach to delivering bad news. Deliver the information tactfully, balanced with directness or the 'meat' of the message. Understand how to use the sandwich approach in more sensitive matters: good news, bad news, good news. Think with your heart when delivering bad news. Your compassion will be appreciated. Learning Objectives Explain the pros and cons of direct and indirect communication, Apply three techniques for delivering bad news Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Customers with complaints want to be seen as right, feel special, treated fairly and be taken care of. We will show you how to ask questions and listen to fully understand the complaint. Acknowledge and agree with the customer's right to be upset and that a resolution needs to be reached. Learning Objectives Describe the special needs of customers with complaints, Apply four tips for managing customer complaints 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

Learn enough facts about a buyer's current status to advance the conversation purposefully. Discover how to ask relevant questions about necessary information designed to keep the prospect talking for the sake of conversation. Understand how to mix open and close ended questions but ask close-ended questions which are likely to be answered with a 'yes'. Learning Objectives Apply guidelines for asking Status Questions, Demonstrate how to ask three types of status questions Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Customer satisfaction and loyalty are the most important factors in creating long-term business growth. Discover how to get quality feedback and how to work through criticism. Objectives of many customer satisfaction surveys look to measure three core indexes: satisfaction, loyalty, and value. Learning Objectives Describe how to get quality customer feedback, Respond appropriately to customer criticism, Explain how to "Take the HEAT" in difficult situations, Implement one question to grow your business Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Personal accountability is about taking control of your life to achieve the outcomes you want by design, not by default. Understand the difference between the victim and victor and apply the four stages of the victim or victor cycle to keep your team accountable. Understand why collaboration will be vital throughout the four stages when others accountable. Learning Objectives Define personal accountability, Describe the four stages of the Victim Cycle, Implement the four stages of accountability Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Assertive behavior is to confidently express what one feels, believes, or thinks while respecting the boundaries of feelings, beliefs, and thoughts of others. Understand the three components of interpersonal communication in more detail, verbal, vocal and visual message. We will show you how to own your thoughts and feelings and take a stand to express your rights or emotions. Learning Objectives Identify the three components of interpersonal communication, Describe the benefits of assertiveness, Explain verbal, vocal, and visual language and behaviors 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

Understand the pull and push energy that are two forms of interpersonal power. Questions gain their power from pull energy, directing others to move with you. Understand when and how to use open-ended and close-ended questions. We will show you how to help buyers make decisions by taking a storyline approach using STeR questions. Learning Objectives Explain the persuasive power of questions, Implement two essential questioning techniques, Describe the benefits of STēR questions that steer conversations to win-win outcomes Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams