Training courses in Functional Skills in Aldwych

The Challenge

This is a business that manufactures and sells a range of hi-tech and smart watches through high street and online retailers. Customer relationships were managed through a team of account managers who were motivated, committed, and successful.

The business had identified a need to develop customer relationships to ensure business retention and future growth, critical to this would be the account management team been recognised as ‘Business Partners’ collaborating with customer stakeholders to achieve mutually agreed growth targets.

Reaching the decision maker is the first major milestone in the sales process, and it is vitally important to understand the best ways to achieve this.

Cold calling, or telemarketing, is a tough, but rewarding role.

Telling stories using your data has never been easier. Data storytelling sits at the crossroads of art and science and utilises both to improve insights. Today, there are a wide range of programs (take a look at somePower BI basics) that can take the data produced by your business and visualise it in a range of different ways, with the idea that utilising this visual language makes understanding complex and often dry data much easier...

When it comes to negotiations, having the edge on the other side can make all the difference.

Verbal based communication, and cold calling in particular, remains an important part of any balanced sales strategy.

The Challenge

This client is a food manufacturer operating a global business. When TLSA became involved, the client was in the middle of a strategic plan designed to achieve challenging growth objectives.

Leadership development was identified as critical to delivering the growth targets. One of the key challenges was to establish a ‘Sales Director: Executive Sales Leader’ group with the capability and potential to deliver on a country-by-country basis.

Cross-cultural negotiations can falter for a whole variety of reasons.

Here's what GDPR means for us marketers and sales professionals, especially those with active cold calling and emailing campaigns.