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Overview Networking has become a crucial factor in the modern workplace. It is the most effective method of developing your business or career and is a key component of your personal brand. This one day course will teach you how to be able to build strong business relationships, develop a level of personal credibility and increase your network of contacts in order to enhance your visibility and create opportunities for yourself and your organisation. Description This training course will help your participants build a professional reputation and develop a network of connections through the two key methods available to them; face-to-face and online. Attendees will discover how to effectively combine these two approaches and create a strategy for networking success that will generate their own community and actively grow their personal network. This will result in an improved performance in their approach to networking and consequently provide opportunities and prospects that will increase their business success. The training provides them with the tools and techniques to both plan a successful, strategic approach to networking and develop their personal communication skills, which will ensure they build effective business relationships. Topics covered: Why Network? – Establishing the importance of networking with some shocking statistics and an activity that defines the importance of networking to the individual. This is followed by some insight into the key aims of a networking strategy, what puts people off, as well as some personal revelations about networking. Increase Your Business Presence – Looking at the components of a strong business presence, including; credibility, personal brand, visibility and social capital. Developing a Networkers Attitude – An exercise that clarifies the perfect attitudes and behaviours of great networkers and comparing the participants against this. Thus identifying areas for development. Face to Face Networking – An overview and insight into the main types of face to face networking opportunities available with the benefits and pitfalls of each. Online Networking – An overview of the different social media and online networking tools and how to get the best out of them. Includes; LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and online forums. Communication Skills for Networking Success – Ensuring a good first impression, creating an opening sound bite and writing an online profile that promotes and engages. Developing a Conversation – Building on the opening sound bite and developing a conversation through good questioning techniques and following a selection of key networking rules. Including an activity to test and practice the skills. Working a Room – A fun activity that embeds and develops learning while encouraging practice and communication. This activity covers 10 of the main skills required to work a room. Breaking into a Group – Identifying body language to spot when a group or pair is open to new people entering the conversation or would rather not encourage participation. Knowing how to break into a group, what to say and how to remain professional. Exiting a Conversation – Developing some techniques to extricate oneself from a conversation without causing embarrassment or rudeness. The Follow-Up – Using a structure to identify the most important contacts created and establishing when and how to follow up with each group. Includes example follow-up email and a chance to develop their own. Creating a Network Plan – Participants are provided with a networking action plan to review and complete. This sets them on the journey of developing their networking skills and ensures they have a strategy and goals to target. Who should attend Anyone who is looking to improve their networking performance, or the networking performance of a management or sales team. Requirements for Attendees No pre-requisites required.

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This workshop will help you create, develop and close business opportunities using a consultative approach and a value-based (not price-led) proposition. Value-based selling means working the way your customer wants to buy, not how you want to sell. It also means: In a transactional sale the customer knows the answer without help from a salesperson (or cannot see why they should choose you), or is prepared to stay with what they have. Customer decision criteria are price and convenience and customers resent time spent with (new) salespeople, mainly because the salesperson adds little or nothing to what the customer already has and just wastes time. In a consultative or value-based sale, by contrast, the customer doesn't know the answer already. The salesperson must take the role of an advisor, not just a 'product promoter'. Customers demand expertise, advice and customisation during the sales process. Often customers insist on multiple meetings with salespeople and others to develop advantages that you can bring and reduce the perceived risk of changing. In this way the salesperson often adds more value than the product or service alone. This very practical workshop will help you use proven strategies and tactics to build, manage and successfully close sustainable business opportunities using a consultative approach and a value-based (not price-led) proposition. This includes: Increased impact of your new sales conversations, presentations and proposals - leading to faster decisions and increased conversion Greater confidence, consistency and professionalism throughout the business development process Enhanced sales questioning skills and techniques, leading to better, faster and more accurate development of customer needs, problems, value and expectations Improve your people, communication, influence and persuasion skills when approaching, consulting or presenting your services and solutions How to build value at all points in the customer's buying process through your knowledge, skills and structured approach Proven ways to gain additional business and referrals from existing customers and contacts, through direct approach and lead generation Being better able differentiate your firm, your solutions, track-record and expertise clearly and accurately with tailored value statements for each stage and for each opportunity Overcome and avoid price-based objections, buying criteria and negotiation 1 Introduction and key principles of value-based selling Introduction and review of pre-course questionnaires - KPIs, personal learning objectives and key principles The main principles of value-based selling and how they benefit you and the customer How value-based selling differs from 'transactional' or 'price-based' selling The stages of the customer's buying cycle - how to identify and work through strategies for each stage The concept of structured and set-piece selling and proposing Presentation by participants: Personal sales improvement goals 2 Value-based selling strategies and skills What is value? How can one move away from a price-led agenda? How to survive and resist price pressure - six techniques A review of key competencies and skills needed for a value-based approach Strategies, case studies and examples with discussion and review Defining your initial value proposition and comparative advantage How best to established the right level of trust, rapport and credibility Planning and practice session: Strategy - mapping a value-based sales process. 3 Connecting skills Research before the meeting and the first few minutes - ways to gain instant rapport and setting the foundation for a successful outcome in a first sales call How to structure an effective first time sales call or meeting - the subtle differences that are important to master How best to differentiate your solutions and build credibility and enthusiasm early or at the start of the buying process Overcoming initial buying resistance and relaxing the prospect; gaining rapport, opening the meeting: PBC (purpose-benefit-check) and gaining agreement to proceed Planning and practice session: Connecting - first meeting with a new contact 4 Consulting - building, developing and influencing client needs Understanding the power of high-impact and third-level questions to influence people based around specific needs and solutions The importance of body language and other personal communication dynamics when asking questions; empathic listening, run-on questions, drawing out skills, summarising, etc Creating a 'disturb' approach to creating needs and opportunities and positioning your solutions Using proven advanced sales questioning techniques with greater skill: Outcome, SPIN and qualification questions 'Decision-making criteria' - tools to help you develop the relevant criteria with the customer and in doing so progress your sales opportunities more effectively Planning and practice session: Questioning skills 5 Convincing - presentation and persuading skills practice Substance and style - selecting the right tone and content to engage and enthuse your prospect Compelling benefits and reducing perceived risk - key messages to deliver Helping the customer choose your proposition - by being convincing, compelling and credible when you present Professional and effective presentation skills - with personal coaching and practice sessions The keys of influence and persuasion and the keys to convincing a new customer to choose you for the first time Planning and practice session: Role-play in presenting your solution 6 Commitment Knowing when and how to close for commitment to the next stage in your sales process, plus ways to ask for commitment professionally and effectively How to isolate, prioritise and answer objections and concerns more openly and accurately, using a consultative not a confrontational approach Deal more effectively and profitably with price objections and reduce buyer's remorse (which can lead to an 'I want to think about it' reaction and cause delay and inertia) Key negotiation skills around the closing process - getting to 'yes' Planning and practice session: Role-play in closing and negotiation skills 7 Assessed role-play - Final practice session Live role-plays There is an option for external participants to be brought in to the live training workshop to take-part in the final assessed role-play or assist with other sessions run during the course. Performance assessment - 'Dragon's Pitch' The final afternoon of the course is an assessed role-play using a prepared scenario and external 'CEO'. The assessment criteria will be agreed prior to the workshop. 8 Workshop summary and close Personal action plan and learning summary

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Business Networking 1 Day Training in Lincoln

Description Do you need to lead one-on-one meetings in your workplace? If you do, then you will know it is your responsibility to make them comfortable for both of you, and also an effective use of time. One-on-One Meetings Serve Many Purposes They may be for Goal setting Performance review - formal and informal Tasking and progress monitoring Briefing Problem-solving and addressing issues Care and support Guidance Coaching or mentoring Performance feedback ...Even reprimands   But often, people get promoted to a level where they need to lead these kinds of meeting, without getting any training. So, in this course, we'll cover: The different types of one-on-one meeting Planning and preparing your meeting Putting together an effective agenda How to build rapport How men and women each perceive a mixed meeting - with advice for each How to listen well Questioning skills How to adapt to the range of meeting types you'll need as a manager, project manager, or team leader.   As a result, you'll be able to: Select the most effective style for your one-on-one meeting Plan and prepare for an effective meeting that puts both of you at ease, and allows you to make the progress you need Lead a meeting that flows naturally Choose the most suitable room layout for your meeting Build and strengthen professional rapport with the other person Avoid the traps of the male-female one-on-one dynamic Listen deeply, and ask insightful questions Lead a range of different types of one-on-one meeting, for: appraisal, progress checking, coaching, mentoring and reprimands.   Prior Experience The only prior experience you need is some exposure to organizational life. However, the people who may find this most valuable are those who have tried leading their first one-on-one meetings and so know what challenges you want to work on..   Who is this course for? Supervisors who need to guide and support colleagues Managers who need to set expectations, and monitor performance Professionals who need to meet with other professionals and workplace contacts Leaders who want to coach, mentor, and give feedback to colleagues ... anyone in the world of work who has to take the lead in a one-on-one meeting   Your Tutor: Dr Mike Clayton Your tutor is Dr. Mike Clayton. As a senior manager at international consulting firm, Deloitte, Mike had to deal with conflict among staff, and with clients, and even among clients. But more important, as a senior representative of his firm and a program leader, he needed to avoid escalation of conflict. Now, as a trainer and facilitator, he has been applying what he learned and teaching it to others. This course represents 15 years' experience of what tools students find most helpful, and 25 years experience in business, managing conflicts large and small. Mike is supported by Felicity Dwyer Felicity is an experienced management trainer and coach, whose Institute of Leadership and Management accredited courses have a justifiably high reputation across the UK. What Will I Learn? Select the most effective style for your one-on-one meeting Plan and prepare for an effective meeting that puts both of you at ease, and allows you to make the progress you need Lead a meeting that flows naturally Choose the most suitable room layout for your meeting Build and strengthen professional rapport with the other person Avoid the traps of the male-female one-on-one dynamic Listen deeply, and ask insightful questions Lead a range of different types of one-on-one meeting, for: appraisal, progress checking, coaching, mentoring and reprimands. Who is the target audience? Supervisors who need to guide and support colleagues Managers who need to set expectations, and monitor performance Professionals who need to meet with other professionals and workplace contacts Leaders who want to coach, mentor, and give feedback to colleagues ... anyone in the world of work who has to take the lead in a one-on-one meeting Requirements You should be a professional, manager, or supervisor who leads one-on-one workplace meetings ...or be expecting to lead them in the near future. Welcome and Introduction Welcome to the Course 00:03:00 Why One-on-One Meetings are so Important 00:03:00 Reasons to Meet 00:03:00 Meetings are Conversations: Types of Conversation 00:04:00 Preparation and Planning for Your One-onOne Meeting Planning your One-on-One Meetings 00:04:00 How to Prepare for Your Meeting 00:02:00 Preparing your Agenda 00:05:00 Running Your One-on-One Meeting The Five Stages of a Meeting 00:04:00 Meeting Room Layout 00:06:00 Rapport Building Skills 00:04:00 The Male-Female Dynamic 00:01:00 The Male-Female Dynamic - from His Perspective 00:05:00 The Male-Female Dynamic - from Her Perspective 00:02:00 Questioning Skills 00:08:00 Listening Skills 00:06:00 Particular Types of One-on-One Meeting Staff-focused One-on-One Meetings 00:05:00 Checkpoint Meetings 00:04:00 Informal Feedback Meeting 00:04:00 Formal Appraisal Meetings 00:06:00 Difficult Conversations 00:04:00 Coaching Meetings 00:06:00 Mentoring Meetings 00:04:00 Giving a Reprimand 00:03:00 Closing Last Thoughts 00:02:00

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