Sales Fundamentals
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To engage clients, salespeople have to demonstrate that they know the clients world, and that they are prepared with insights and ideas, to add to what clients already know. Essential Selling Skills covers all these necessary skills.
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Buying and purchasing has become a core competency for clients. They evaluate their options against check-lists, and align solutions with their business priorities, and are focused firmly on business outcomes. Clients are interested in reducing risk. They turn to peers and social networks to self-educate, before turning to salespeople.
A core and fun component of Essential Selling Skills are three ‘Role Plays’. 1) Making an Appointment, 2) Asking the Correct Questions, and 3) Closing & Handling Objections. For each role play, a delegate will play the role of either a salesperson, customer or observer. The course is divided into the following topics and modules:
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1. The Changing Face of Sales & Selling
Learning Circle | 45 MinutesTimes have changed. Almost everything that a customer needs to know about solving their daily challenges is just a click away. Sales Teams need to make a adjustment of how they manage their job.
The learning is in three parts, 1) a look at sales during the past decade, 2) understand what changed and, 3) learn what the future of sales might look like and what new skills might be required.
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2. Traits of Good Salespeople
Learning Circle | 45 MinutesGood salespeople may not even know why they are good at what they as in most cases they simply do what comes naturally. However, they are a range of skills that all good salespeople have.
There are some sales skills that good salespeople are born with, and others that they acquire over a lifelong journey of being in sales. This topic identifies the do's and don'ts.
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3. Understanding a Clients Business
Learning Circle | 20 MinutesUnderstanding customers is the key to giving them good service which in turn results into strong customer relationships and new sales through positive word-of-mouth recommendation.
Understanding a company or buyer is easier with four things to bear in mind.
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4. The 12 V's of Sales
Learning Circle | 30 Minutes
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5. Structured Sales Process Part 1
Learning Circle | 45 MinutesIf salespeople do not follow a Structured Sales Process, mistakes, inefficiencies, time wasting, lack of focus, doing the wrong things at the wrong time are all commonplace.
Part 1 of the Structured Sales Process deals with Planning, Making Appointments and Opening meetings.
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6. FOCUS Questioning
Learning Circle |FOCUS selling is a sales questioning methodology where salespeople organise sales calls using questions from four categories: Fact, Obstacle, Consequence and Unique Solution.
Closing is less important than most salespeople think. Questioning is more important. Good salespeople focus on preventing, not handling objections. FOCUS shows how.
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7. Structured Sales Process Part 2
Learning Circle | 45 MinutesIf salespeople do not follow a Structured Sales Process, mistakes, inefficiencies, time wasting, lack of focus, doing the wrong things at the wrong time are all commonplace.
Part 2 of the Structured Sales Process deals with Insights, Summarising, Convincing and Closing.
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8. Features, Advantages & Benefits
Learning Circle | 30 MinutesFeatures are easily defined as we can see or use them, but how they translate to an eventual benefit to a user can be more difficult to determine. However, it is benefits that drive decisions.
Features refer to what the product or service specifically does and how it is different from what the competition does. Benefits describe the reasons why the features matter to the buyer.
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9. Pipelines & Progression
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10. The Science of Sales
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11. Similarities Between Sports & Sales
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12. The Cognitive Sales Team
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13. Selling to Different Buyers
Learning Circle | 45 Minutes
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14. The Right Message, Person, Format & Time
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15. StoryTelling and StorySelling
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16. Proprietary Sales Tools to Deliver Sales Messages
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Founder & Managing Director
Mark is a cognitive communication and visual training specialist with over 40 years global knowledge & experience. Before starting his own company, Mark was managing in the corporate world based in Europe and Asia in industries such as Textiles, Media, Publishing and Education.
As a ‘revitalised and recovering’ dyslexic, Mark often lends his enthusiasm and humour in ‘storytelling’ his view of the world at functions and seminars entitled ‘A Dyslexics View of a Visually Dyslexic World’.
Arcanum Asia Pte Ltd
Arcanum are sales, marketing and training partners for the Sales Optimisation Tool, a dynamic methodology and concept that helps measure sales teams against critical key performance indicators, and ties sales team performance with business strategy.