Winning Pursuits // Sales Programs
Learning Objectives
This hands-on two day workshop is designed to provide participants with the mindset, skills and tools to increase their success in winning business.
By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:
- Define a clear and compelling sales opportunity
- Assess an opportunity more effectively
- Identify the importance of questions in winning pursuits
- Gain insight into what their current questions communicate to the client
- Describe the key players in a client pursuit, their power and authority, change style and the likelihood they will support a sales initiative
- Articulate a client-focused value proposition
- More effectively assess an opportunity within the sales pipeline
- Examine various opportunity strategies
- Create an action plan to accelerate the close of business
PROGRAM FLOW
KEY CONTENT AREAS
Welcome
- Introduction
- Learning objectives
Winning Pursuits
- Organizational context, why it matters
- Types of sales people: Technical, relationship, closer, consultative, challenger
Sales Opportunities and Qualifications
- Description
- Confidence and stage
- Attractiveness
- Qualification/Real win worth It
- Probability pentagon
Key Player Tool
- Identify key players
- Personal and professional needs
- Buying types
- Power and authority
- Change style
- Client perception/Client influence grid
- Mapping key players
Questions
- Types of questions: Tactical, qualification, strategic, personal need
- What our questions say about us
- High-impact questions
- Known and needed
Leveraging Strengths
- Clear and compelling value proposition
- Sources of differentiation
- Sources of insight
Strategic Path
- Frontal, flanking, fragment, forego
- Tactical action plan