Recommended Sales Training Learning Agenda for Big Ticket

Retail Sales Professionals

Each of the following topics is an independent seminar and it can be used in a sequence as shown or taught in a single 1.5 - 2.5 hrs. session.

 

Sequence

Topics                                               

   1

Personal Image & Grooming      

Retail Sales Training Module I - Packaging Yourself 

   2

Customer Sensitive Disciplines 

Retail Sales Training Module II - Responding to Customer Needs

   3

Prospecting and Retail Promotion Skills

Retail Sales Training Module III - Personal Prospecting and Follow-Up

   4  

Strategic Customer Encounters 

Retail Sales Training Module IV - Strategy for Customer Satisfaction and Higher Margins

   5

Helping the Customer Make the Best Decision I

Retail Sales Training Module V - Presentation Steps to a Retail Sale

   6

Helping the Customer Make the Best Decision II

Retail Sales Training Module VI - Closing the Sale and Opening a Relationship

   7

Telephone Professionalism, Part I

   8

The Powerful Process of Tactical Probing

   9

Negotiating with Customers

   10

Fear Free Prospecting & Sales Development

   11

Ethics and Excellence at Work

   12

Dealing with Customer Problems, Complaints & Conflicts

 

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Topic Overview & Content Objective

Personal Image & Grooming

 

 

Retail Sales Training Module I


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A classroom learning experience which focuses on the basics of positive personal image projection & related grooming disciplines.

 

Class Topics

- Listening essentials

- Communicating clearly

   - language

   - vocabulary

   - articulation

   - hedging

   - voice control

- Managing the customer’s perception

- Image building first impression

- Personal grooming - self rating

- Professional attire & the power look

- Tips for make up – jewelry - accessories

- Think positively about yourself

- Action plan – personal commitment

 

To help retail professionals project their best professional image

 

Topic

Overview & Content

Objective

Customer Sensitive Disciplines

 

 

Retail Sales Training Module II


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An interactive classroom exercise that views the sales interaction from the customer’s perspective.

 

Class Topics

- Three dimensional retail selling

- Unconditional professionalism – what is it?

- What’s really important to customers & why

- Personal self profile exercise

   - self evaluation

   - interpretation - understanding ourselves

   - application - recognizing customer styles

- How to work sensitively with any customer style or attitude

- Professional courtesy – a discipline, not an option

 

To understand ourselves & customers better & to practice sensitive response to customer needs

 

Topic

Overview & Content

Objective

Prospecting and Retail  Promotion Skills

 

 

Retail Sales Training Module III


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A learning opportunity which can help you defeat prospecting anxiety and develop a personal prospecting, follow-up and floor selling plan

 

Class Topics

- Critical things top earners must do!

- Prospecting reluctance & it’s cost

- Self profile – retail prospecting reluctance scale

- Four formulas for poor productivity & how to reverse them!

- Prospecting sources & high return priorities – action exercise

- How to convert retail “slow time” to “show time”!

- The potent power of customer follow up – action exercise

- A retail floor plan; a model to consider

 

To learn & apply principles of personal retail prospecting, customer accounting & follow-up, which will multiply earnings & grow sales

 

Topic

Overview & Content

Objective

Strategic Customer Encounters

 

 

Retail Sales Training Module IV


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This module is an instructional, practical, profit-focused model for establishing your own floor display and selling plan which can assure increased margins and high customer satisfaction.

 

Class Topics

- Critical problems shared by profit oriented retailers

- The guided tour

- The unguided tour

- Typical non-productive customer interactions

- Anatomy of a satisfying retail sale

- Customer pre-dispositions – what are they?

- A profit-plus model retail selling strategy

- A functional model floor display & line up

- How to use feature/benefit comparisons to improve the sales mix

- Sell down to sell up for customer value emphasis

- Action model for developing a strategic plan

- How to guarantee higher customer satisfaction

 

To establish & use a floor line up and sales strategy which assures higher sales mix, margins, closing ratios & more satisfied customers

 

Topic

Overview & Content

Objective

Helping The Customer Make The Best Decision I

 

 

Retail Sales Training Module V


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This module will prepare you for a customer satisfying interaction on the sales floor. Review how to combine floor displays and product arrangements with a presentation strategy that leads to the big ticket sale.

 

Class Topics

- What customers want & why they want it

- Professional preparation precedes productive customer encounters

- Guide – sequenced steps to a big ticket retail sale

- The power of a planned approach & greeting

- How to begin a retail customer interaction?

- The 3 stage customer qualifying process – what it is & how to use it

- A process to help customers compare …

- Model presentation & demonstrations

 

To practice the skills of helping the customer make the best buying decision

 

Topic

Overview & Content

Objective

Helping The Customer Make The Best Decision II

 

 

Retail Sales Training Module VI


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There is only one best! This selling process will help both you and the customer to know that they have made the best decision. Best for the customer, best for the business and best for the sales person.

 

Class Topics

- How to develop & use your unique customer advantages

- Do customers just want the lowest price

- Doorway to sales success

- Dealing with customer objections & concerns

- How to add value after objection response

- Four types of strong recommendations

- How to close the sale and begin a customer relationship

- Legitimate reasons to buy now

- Closing reluctance – why not ask for the order?

- What to do after the customer buys!

- How to use retail down time profitably

 

To study & experience the consummation of a mutually satisfying buy-sell interaction and begin a relationship

 
Topic Overview & Content Objective
Telephone Professionalism, Part I


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An involved learning classroom exercise to discuss & experience practical basics for effectively dealing with the stresses & routines inherent in customer-sensitive volume intensive call-service operations.

Class Topics
- Phone professionalism 101-avoid conflict
- Predispositions of callers (research)
- Personal maturity & discipline of courtesy
- High-impact telephone greetings
- How callers judge you-managing perception
- Origin of conflict & complaints
- Transactional analysis P-A-C Theory
- Mirroring customer attitudes
- Preparation for Part II

 
To enhance company image, improve telephone efficiency & communicating productivity while exceeding caller-customer expectations & lowering tension & stress levels.
Topic Overview & Content Objective
The Powerful Process Of Tactical Probing
 


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An involved learning classroom experience for formulating & using questions to understand needs, diagnose problems & determine the best solutions. Know the foundation, source & impact of using probes in interactions with customers, associates & friends to diagnose & solve problems and uncover needs.

Class Topics
- A question is more powerful than a statement!
- Various probes with specific tactical purposes
- Types of probles & purposes
- How to formulate questions
- What questions to ask and when

 
To improve understanding of the principles & techniques of using questions tactically to communicate clearly and improve efficiency in all interactions, solve problems & build better personal relationships while reducing costly communicating errors.
Topic Overview & Content Objective
Negotiating With Customers

Protecting profits, commissions & sales policies
 


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An interactive review of practical skills & principles of negotiating for use in daily business & interpersonal interactions.

Class Topics
- 3 stages of any negotiation
- 7 principles for negotiating
- 3 crucible negotiating variables
- 7 rules for making concessions
- 7 do’s & dont’s of equitable negotiating
- Negotiating tactics

 
To prepare sales professionals systematically & equitably to deal with customer negotiating issues while protecting priorities, policies, principles & profits.
 
Topic Overview & Content Objective

Fear Free Prospecting & Sales Development


 

 

Disciplines for fear free prospecting and promoting


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Sales professionals will improve productivity via definition, self-evaluation and application of techniques for dealing with the self-defeating plague of call anxiety.


 

Class Topics

- The missing link in sales performance training

- Why motivated, talented, capable, ambitious people fail

- Great profile…but will he/she make sales calls

- The co$t of call anxiety

- The self doubt spiral - financial co$t/human resource co$t

- Defining authentic call anxiety

- Where does call anxiety originate?

- Four deadly impostors – what call anxiety is not!

- Twelve shapes of call anxiety

- Behaviors that hold productivity hostage

- Steps to overcoming call anxiety

- Techniques for defeating & controlling call anxiety – and making prospecting calls

 

To learn how to diagnose, define and defeat the self-defeating plague of call anxiety and apply techniques for customer prospecting.

Topic Overview & Content Objective
Ethics & Excellence At Work

Excellence, profitability & job security
 


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Establishes clear ethical guidelines for the contemporary workplace and marketplace. You will learn absolute standards of ethical conduct in pursuit of your mission.

Class Topics
- The lost sense of ethical direction
- The high & low roads of ethical behavior
- Personal principles & code of ethical conduct
- Business survival - ethical motivation
- 10 principles of ethical decisions & actions
- Case studies - typical & generic
 
To equip each individual with an awareness of the critical importance of ethical workplace actions & how absolute ethics enhance quality productivity, profitability & job security.
 
Topic Overview & Content Objective

Dealing With Customer Problems, Complaints & Conflicts
 


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Participants review and practice professional techniques for preserving customer relationships in problematic situations

 

Class Topics

- Self-inflicted wounds – most common customer complaints

- How to reduce or avoid complaints - guidelines

- Winning ways with others – our behavioral responsibility

- How to give and take criticism

- Dealing with complaints via phone - admonitions

- Recognize opportunity and pan gold from complaints

- Understand roles customers play – transactional analysis

- The tough customer – exercise to diffuse customer hostility

- Tactical problem solving – key to conflict resolution

- What you can do when you don’t know what to do

 

To preserve customer relationships by way of disciplined behavior when dealing with tough customers. To review the importance of self-control and positive behavior in stressful interactions.


 

 

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