Sales, Professional Training in Gloucestershire

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

One of the most effective tactics available to buyers is the price challenge. It is very simple to use, and can be very effective.

The Challenge

To enable capable sales managers to make the transition from manager to business leader. The goal was to develop the leadership and business skills needed to run a team of people balancing performance, behaviours, and profitability.

To deliver this training with an accreditation process, whereby participants can demonstrate personal progress.

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.

Read about how LDL brought the Carphone Warehouse together to retain managers and help employees live its new values.

Some people say that in the era of consultative-partner selling, closing is no longer necessary. This is just not the case.

To succeed in key account management we must make lots of contacts and talk to lots of people within the account. One of the ways customers reduce risk is to ensure that as many of their people as possible are in favour of the decision.

Whilst there are hundreds of traits and qualities that go into being a good manager, one vital ability is knowing how and when to delegate tasks.

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.