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Consultative selling skills

We have developed this course to improve your understanding of clients’ needs and motivations, and your ability to add value to their organisation.

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Consultative selling skills
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£995.00 Plus vat
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Summary

We have developed this course to improve your understanding of clients’ needs and motivations, and your ability to add value to their organisation.

Understanding your clients’ needs, their motivations and your ability to add value to their organisation is paramount in developing a successful consultative approach. The consultative approach requires listening and questioning in order that you are able to respond flexibly within customer situations.

This course is intended for engineers involved in selling products or services to clients, both internal and external. The focus is on creating relationships rather than the traditional “hard” sales process and utilises a partnership approach that benefits the client and provides long-term rewards for both parties.

Who should attend?

This programme is suitable for engineers and non-engineers at all levels.

How will I benefit?

After the course you will be able to:

  • Understand your natural sales style, its strengths and limitations, and have an action list to improve your performance. 
  • Create effective partnerships with clients that are productive, meaningful, profitable and long-term. 
  • Understand and practise the process of consultative selling to ensure a win-win partnership approach. 
  • Effectively use rapport and questioning techniques to facilitate meaningful needs analysis with a range of clients.
  • Understand types of buyers, your impact with them, and the primary methods of selling to them. 
  • Take a journey throughout the sales process from first needs analysis meeting through to the final presentation. 
  • Feel confident in selling, using consultative methodologies to a wide range of clients.
 
Contributes 14 CPD hours

The processes and approaches shared were very compelling and I will certainly be using them in upcoming projects.

Keir Haines Designability

Key topics

  • Introduction to consultative selling.
  • Communication process and key skills. 
  • Core communication skills.
  • Personal styles.
  • Influencing others.
  • Effective planning and account management.
  • Sales meeting techniques.
  • Role plays.

Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies: C and D

  1. Responsibility, management or leadership - For Incorporated and Chartered Engineers: 'Provide Technical and commercial leadership’
  2. Communication and inter-personal skills - For Incorporated and Chartered Engineers: 'Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills’

Meet our trainers

These trainers regularly teach Consultative selling skills.

  • John Hattam

    John Hattam

    John has built a successful consulting business in both the private and public sectors, specialising in sales and marketing, product and customer development, and business planning.

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Tell us your team's CPD needs and we'll come to you with a specialised training programme, customised for your engineering sector.
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At a glance

  • Duration:
    2 days
  • Location:
    London, Coventry
  • CPD Hours:
    14
  • Accredited:
    no
  • UK-Spec:
    C, D

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Available dates for Consultative selling skills

2 day course

London
23-24 Oct 2019
Coventry
6-7 Apr 2020 10% discount available until 6 February
London
10-11 May 2020 10% discount available until 10 March

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