Situational Selling: Focus on the Customer

This highly customized Program for salespeople of all experience levels provides an in-depth examination of the attitudes and skills practiced by top-achieving sales professionals. Participants gain the ability to understand clients' needs, present their company's features and benefits, and apply customer-focused selling skills in confirming business and overcoming buyer concerns.

Program Objectives
  • To gain a greater understanding of current trends in the sales profession
  • To learn to understand and relate to customer needs
  • To enhance self-awareness and understanding of personal growth and change
  • To understand and apply customer-focused selling skills
  • To share ideas and experiences with other sales professionals

Topics Covered:

  • The consultative approach to selling
  • Goal-setting for personal and professional growth
  • Maintaining a positive attitude
  • Planning and researching prior to contacting a potential client
  • Cultivating business from new and existing sources
  • Questioning and listening skills
  • Discovering customer tangible and intangible needs
  • Presenting features and benefits
  • Understanding client behavioral styles
  • Providing solutions with effective presentation skills
  • Knowing how and when to ask for the business
  • Overcoming buyer concerns
  • Establishing trust and building lasting relationships

Program Format:

  • Pre-Program Process includes: customer research, participant pre-work exercises, and development of customized role-plays and case studies.
  • Three-day Program is facilitator-led with emphasis on practical exercise, group discussion, and role-play.
  • One-on-one Follow-Consultation sessions are held with each participants six weeks after the Program to reinforce training concepts.
  • Optional Sales Skills Assessment program available through our affiliate ADCON, Inc. to evaluate participants’ effectiveness in using new skills
 
"Thank you for reminding us how to sell. So often we get in a rut because we have always done one thing and it eventually stops working. You have given me the extra “umph” that I needed to get back out there and try something new!"

- White Lodging