Sales Skills Excellence Workshop

Delivery Option: 4 x 4hr modules or 2 Days


This challenging, thought provoking and highly interactive program is aimed at your less experienced sales people or, (as is often the case),  can be used as a valuable reminder and re-energiser for the more seasoned campaigner.

If you sell in markets that demand a higher investment in the cost of the sale, and where your sales people’s success will have a significant impact on your organisation's bottom line profit..this program will help.

At the end of this workshop your sales people will be able to......

•    Devise a strategic pre call plan appropriate to where your customer is in the buying cycle;

•    2 types of sales call objectives (and why one of them is the key)

•    Goal setting 101 – goal or wish?

•    Call outcomes – measuring the success of the call.

•    Build the foundations of a successful sale - trust and rapport;

•    First impressions – you don’t get a second chance.

•    It’s not what you say or how you say it.

•    Establish control and communicate professionalism by defining the purpose of the call;

•    Setting an agenda, process and objective.

•    The customer’s only radio station.

•    Uncover and develop the  needs of the customer by asking key questions;

•    Understanding is more important than persuading.

•    The 4 key questions you must ask

•    The 2 types of customer needs.

•    Look who’s talking!

•    The one critical error (and why customers are like horseshoes) .

•    Leverage buyer psychology by understanding why people buy things;

•    The 2 basic reasons people buy things.

•    Present a solution in a simple, easy to understand manner that will make the buying decision easier for the customer;

•    So what’s a benefit?

•    There’s no inherent value in any of your products!

•    A model  to demonstrate value.

•    Gain commitment from the customer;

•    What are we afraid of?

•    It’s a process, not an event.

•    Some useful techniques.  

•    Handle customer  objections and concerns

•    What’s wrong with objections anyway?

•    The 4 reasons customers aren’t buying from you.

•    Human instinct at work – the caveman approach.

•    4 key questions that will really help.

•    Answers are not the answer.