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Sales Skill Builders Modules Include:
Coaching the Consultative Sales Process Managing Sales Obstacles Planning Effective Sales Calls Sharpening Your Active Listening Skills Value-Added Selling

Coaching the Consultative Sales Process     02PDVM11     $99
Coaching the Consultative Sales Process is an interactive online skill builder for sales management professionals. The purpose of this skill builder is to develop your understanding of sales coaching, including planning the coaching call, making the coaching call, and providing feedback after the call. Your ability to effectively coach salespeople will directly impact your career as a sales coach/manager and your sales people's careers.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1 hour
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Course Description
Coaching the Consultative Sales Process is an interactive online skill builder for sales management professionals. The purpose of this skill builder is to develop your understanding of sales coaching, including planning the coaching call, making the coaching call, and providing feedback after the call. Your ability to effectively coach salespeople will directly impact your career as a sales coach/manager and your sales people's careers.

Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will:

  • Develop your understanding of where and how coaching applies in the overall performance management process.
  • Improve the effectiveness of your salespeople through coaching essential sales-call-related skills.
  • Engage a model, processes, and tools you can apply in coaching salespeople.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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Managing Sales Obstacles     02PDVM12     $99
Effective sales coaching is essential to the long-term success of both new and experienced salespeople. Coaching in this course is based on sales call observations focusing primarily on sales skills and processes. The overall coaching model can also be used to counsel salespeople about their performance, based on other results/observations. The sales skills/processes are those necessary to sales call effectiveness, as practiced by most successful salespeople, and/or taught in most proven sales skills training programs.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1 hour
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Course Description
As a salesperson, you are often faced with obstacles to making the sale. Obstacles prevent the customer from moving ahead with you in the sales (call) process. The customer raises an issue that must be addressed before he/she can agree to continue. This training provides you with a process for managing obstacles that can help resolve such issues with the customer. Managed skillfully, obstacles can be opportunities to improve your understanding of the recommendations.

Course Objectives
To develop your effectiveness in managing sales obstacles, this training will:

  • Define sales obstacles and the sales (call) process.
  • Examine how to identify sales obstacles.
  • Examine a process for responding to sales obstacles.
  • Conclude with an application exercise allowing you to apply what you have learned.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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Planning Effective Sales Calls     02PDVM13     $99
Planning Effective Sales Calls is an interactive online skill builder for sales management professionals. The purpose of this skill builder is to develop your understanding of how to effectively plan for sales calls. Specifically, this skill builder will address how to profile customers, plan calls, and conduct post-call analysis.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1 hour
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Course Description
Effective sales call planning is essential to the successful outcome of any sales call. All effective sales call planning consists of three major components. During this course, you will address each of the three major components:

  • Customer Profiling--Assembling the information that you already know about a customer's situation that will impact your sales call.
  • Call Planning--Developing a plan that outlines the actions that you want to take in conducting the sales call.
  • Post-Call Analysis--Reviewing the results of the sales call as a basis for planning and conducting your next call in the overall sales cycle.

Course Objectives
The overall objective of this course is to improve your ability to effectively plan sales calls. To achieve this overall objective, you will learn to:

  • Visualize and plan calls using a systematic process.
  • Establish a realistic outcome for a sales call.
  • Get a strong start in the call with a well-planned opening that focuses the call.
  • Prepare questions to increase your understanding of the customer's situation.
  • Anticipate and plan responses for sales obstacles.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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Sharpening Your Active Listening Skills     02PDVM14     $99
Sharpening Your Active Listening Skills, is an interactive online skill builder for sales professionals. The purpose of this skill builder is to develop your active listening skills. Listening is far more than just hearing. This course will help you in your ability to understand the speaker's message; know what the speaker's statements mean; and understand the reasons behind the message.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1 hour
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Course Description
Sharpening Your Active Listening Skills, is an interactive online skill builder for sales professionals. The purpose of this skill builder is to develop your active listening skills. Listening is far more than just hearing. This course will help you in your ability to understand the speaker's message; know what the speaker's statements mean; and understand the reasons behind the message.

Course Objectives
The program will develop a participant's:

  • Understanding of the key factors that impact listening effectiveness.
  • Listening effectiveness through the application of key strategies.
  • Direct skills.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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Value-Added Selling     02PDVM15     $99
Value Added Selling is an interactive online skill builder for sales professionals. The purpose of this skill builder is to develop your understanding of how to effectively add value to your sales. Specifically, this skill builder will address how to establish rapport and trust, methods for presenting your value, and value-added services to close the sale. Value-added selling is essential to the successful outcome of any sales call, especially when buyers have faith in your product, but still have doubts about buying. During this course, the major components of value-added selling will be addressed.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1 hour
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Course Description
Value-added selling is essential to the successful outcome of any sales call, especially when buyers have faith in your product but still have doubts about buying. During this course, we will address the major components of value-added selling.

Course Objectives
During this course you will:

  • Examine the barriers to rapport.
  • Analyze your own communication style.
  • Explore questioning.
  • Outline objectives, benefits, and features.
  • Review services to close the sale.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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