Course Schedule

Advanced Selling Skills


  • Identify their market and its main players.
  • Conduct a SWOT analysis to enable them to properly position their products/services.
  • Respond to customer needs in order to adapt their selling approach to those needs.
  • Provide advanced selling knowledge and skills for dealing with customer objections.
  • Gain awareness of professional behavior during all phases of the sales call.
  • Explain how to develop a long-term relationship and partnership with their customers.
  • Targeting your Market
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Market Segmentation
  • Product Positioning
  • SWOT Analysis:
    • Strengths
    • Weaknesses
    • Opportunities
    • Threats

The New Selling Process

  • Stages in the Selling Process
  • The New Selling Process
  • Recent Trends in Personal Selling:
    • Relationship Selling
    • Consultative Selling
    • Team Selling
    • Sales Force Automation
  • The Sales Competency Model
  • Dealing with Difficult Personalities:
    • Understanding Clients
    • Examples of Difficult Behaviors

The SPIN Sales Model

  • The S.P.I.N. Concept
    • Situation
    • Problem
    • Implication
    • Need Pay-Off The Art of Negotiations
  • The 5 Negotiating Styles:
    • Avoiding
    • Accommodating
    • Collaborating
    • Competing
    • Compromising
  • Barriers to Successful Negotiation
  • The Do's and Don'ts of Negotiation

Building a Long-Term Relationship with Customers

  • Definitions of Customer Service
  • Elements of Customer Relationships
  • List of Critical Variables
  • The Four Trust Builders
  • 7 Things Every Salesperson Needs to Know

All senior sales representatives and professionals, key account sales staff, sales managers and supervisors.

This program is worth 16 CPD hours.