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Influence Skills for Sales Professionals

Your job requires in-depth knowledge of your product and client, and familiarity with sales techniques. But is that enough to close a sale? Not always. What's missing? Personal influence skills. You can learn to quickly identify the influence styles of others and adapt your own personal style and approach to help you best address the situation and the client. The flexibility to adapt to the situation is the key to uncovering critical information about the buyer's needs, making appropriate recommendation statements, and advancing and closing the sale.

During this two to three-day learning experience, participants will learn and practice:
Using influence styles to advance sales
Uncovering functional and personal needs
The five-step sales call planning process
Managing difficult selling situations

Account Managers will be able to:
Manage the sales cycle
Utilize a wide range of influence styles
Choose the best influence style to use at any point during the sales cycle
Create a sales call action plan