Sales Training Journal

Negotiation is woven into our daily lives, whether we’re deciding on a meeting spot with friends, negotiating a deal with a customer, navigating a disagreement, or compromising with work colleagues. Successful sales negotiation outcomes are driven not by “natural talent” for negotiation, but by a combination of critical thinking and behavioral skills; therefore, developing both is critical for everyone. We negotiate far more often than we realize, sometimes with ease, other times facing unexpected challenges. Whether discussing the price of a product or trying to resolve a customer issue, we often discover that emotions and expectations influence the outcome just as much as strategy does. While much advice exists on how to become a ‘winning sales negotiator,’ the real experience is rarely as simple as it appears in step-by-step guides. Unlike many resources that focus solely on tactics, in this article we use scenarios and the f...

Today’s selling environment requires a whole different approach to your sales presentations. To give a sales presentation that persuades today’s busy prospects, stands out from your competition, and is remembered when buying decisions are made, you need to be a powerful communicator. We groan when we have to attend a meeting with the slide deck as the star. Whether you’re a CEO, senior manager, or salesperson, you create sales presentations that have incredibly high stakes. Impressions, relationships, revenue, career promotions, and customer changes are all influenced by sales presentations every day. Our sales presentation training course will dramatically improve presentation communications. It will change how you plan, ideate, create, and deliver a sales presentation. Once you embrace the concepts around visual storytelling, mediocre slides or content will not be good enough anymore. You’ll have the resolve to challenge the status quo and set a higher sales communi...