Unstoppable Sales Professional (USP)
Building Value Added Sales Professionals for the Future
USP is a powerful sales training that gears up the knowledge, skills and attitudes of your sales supervisors, representatives (including DSRs) and managers. USP also gives a well recognized professional qualification for thriving individuals in the field of selling.
USP is customizable for any company and different levels of sales professions.
This is the right time to gear up your sales teams. Market is rapidly changing every hour and did you upgrade the skills of your sales people? Earlier selling was all about finding the best fit of customers for your product but now the priority is to find the best fit of products for your customer. Customer’s need satisfaction has become paramount for businesses to succeed.
This has generated the need to have a dedicated sales staff in every company. A company no longer needs just a salesperson but need of the hour is a professional seller who will not only sell the products but will rather create value for the customer, manage the relationship and gather information necessary for the organization. Professionally trained seller is your one-stop solution for all sale-related challenges.
Unstoppable Sales Professional is a six months training course delivered on classroom and face-to-face sessions at the training canters in Colombo, Anuradapura, Negombo, Kandy, Galle and Kurunegala.
Following are the three types of USP qualifications available.
· Sales/Marketing professionals
· Sales persons/representatives
· Sales/Territory supervisors
· Students looking to make a career in sales
· New entrepreneurs
· Developing a highly skilled and knowledgeable sales force
· Ensuring powerful performance and reliability of sales force
· Enhanced sales and after-sales services
· Increased trust and market share
· Increased possibility of standing out against the competition
· Better image creation in the market
· Better chances of repeat sales
· Gathering better techniques of sales promotion
· Being better equipped in the function of selling
· Set of powerful selling skills
· Overall understanding of sales job
· Ability to achieve timely targeted sales
· Access to a powerful tool box of sales
· Understanding the importance of planning before making a sale
· Coordinating efforts with members of other departments across the organization
· International certificate
· Interactive in-person and online sessions
· Presentations
· Practical field exercises
· Management games
· Role-playing/modelling
· Case studies
· Group discussions
· Using the latest tools
Curriculum
Module 1: Sales and Marketing Fundamentals
Meaning of marketing
Selling vs. Marketing
Concepts of marketing: product concept, selling concept, marketing concept, holistic marketing concept, social marketing concept
Overview of marketing management and its significance in an organization
Understanding the products and mission of the company
Profession of selling and its ethics
Understanding the roles and responsibilities of the sales job
Module 2: Emotional Strength and Personality
Understanding emotional strengths
Power of emotional drives and customer behavior
Understanding emotional weaknesses and strategies
Aligning personality with sales profession
Emotional intelligence for successful sales career
Setting focus on market challenges
Module 3: Understanding Concepts of Selling
Types of selling: Direct selling, Relationship selling, Partnership selling
Types of selling tasks
Understanding company, brands, products and industry
Process of Selling
Role of a professional salesperson
Importance of gathering value
Types of selling strategies
Personal selling
Defining sales cycle, hierarchy and command line up
Conducting sales discussions/calls
Improving conversion ratios
Module 4: Upgrading Communication and Pitching Skills
· Verbal and non-verbal communication skills
· Self-presentation and visibility
· Understanding sales language
· Improving listening skills
· Managing difficult customers
· Building trust and image in the territory
· Assertive communication skills
· Written communication and reporting
· Command structure and learn to follow instructions
· Inspiring customers and representing the brand
Module 5: Understanding the Customer’s Perspective
· Types of sales relationships: transactional, emotional, functional
· Types of customers an value of the customer
· Ethical challenges faced by a salesperson
· Understanding the cultural traits of the customer
· Buying decision- five stages model
· Reading customer language and listening to emotional appeals
· Building loyalty
· Recording and reporting customer feedbacks
· Embrace customer feedbacks and manage complains
· Decision heuristics
Module 6: Defending and Developing Sales Territory
· Analyzing the market environment/territory
· Understanding the sales protentional and challenges
· Observing competitor behavior and collect intelligence
· Holding ground and getting team support
· Strategies to defend the territory
· Building trust and brand image among retailer network
· Managing power dynamics and expand shelf space
· Manage inventory and aging stocks
· Improve stock conversion and cash collection
· Improve visibility and promotional aspects across the territory
Module 7: Sales Negotiations and Follow-up
Negotiation and win-win strategy
· Understand objections from the customers
· Understanding B2B terms, ethics and exceptions
· Negotiating terms and set ground rules
· Product demonstration and selling financial pitch
· Understanding signals and managing expectations
· Closing sale and implementing transaction
· Follow-up
Module 8: Sales Reporting and Cost Analysis
· Plan and monitor sales growth
· Accuracy and transparency of information
· Sales target setting and audit
· Conducting sales analysis
· Assessing own sales performance
· Manage own sales dashboard and report back
· Analysis of category and retailer performance
· Case studies
Module 9: Ethics and Values
· Understanding sales ethics of the industry and company
· Set professional values
· Punctuality and value added performance
· Manage time, tasks and targets
· Nurture professionalism
Module 10: Gearing up for Turbulent Times
· Assess and forecast risks and challenges
· Manage and align personal goals with sales goals
· Ready to learn from failure and becoming unstoppable
· Prepare for challenges and problem-solving skill
· Support team members and add value
· Accept criticism professionally and be proactive
· Building growth mindset
· Balancing personal and professional lives