Kellogg School of Management

Mastering Sales: A Toolkit for Success

Kellogg School of Management

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Programme Content

Module 1: Enhancing your Selling and Persuasion Skills

The knowledge, skill and discipline of selling

Explore the foundations of artful selling knowledge, skill and discipline and how to combine these to become a high-performing salesperson

Interview with Daniel Pink, Ted Talk speaker and author of six books including, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing High-Impact Selling Skills

Sales tools used: Knowledge, Skills, Discipline Assessment; Vitamin or Painkiller?; Walk and Talk

Module 2: Targeting

Engage in stakeholder mapping, creating personas, planning your week, and talking about your competitors

Learn how to identify and filter your target markets specific pain points and create a clear vision of who your customers are

Develop your competitive talking points

Sales tools used: Filtering your Target Market; Stakeholder Map; Competitive Talking Points; Weekly Cadence

Module 3: Lead Generation Tactics

Discover how to build your network, improve cold calls, create effective introductory emails, and apply proactive pursuit

Learn how to create a sales framework, qualify leads, put together talking points and schedule a cadence

Develop a stakeholder map, prospecting script, and introductory email

Interview with Jim McAvoy, Founder and President of JWMcAvoy Company, Ltd. Cold Calling

Sales tools used: Proactive Pursuit; Prospecting Script; Email Blueprint; Sales Conversation

Module 4: Nurturing Prospects

Explore methods for qualifying prospects, listening and asking questions, and acing the meeting

Learn the questions that drive great sales conversations and qualify prospects quickly by using 4 different types of questions and 3 levels of listening

Role play with

Andrew W. Sykes

, Adjunct Lecturer of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Handling Objections

Sales tools used: Personas; Qualifying Questions; Asking the Right Questions; Perfect Sales Meeting; Objections Matrix

Module 5: Telling the Right Story at the Right Time for the Right Reasons

Understand the power that stories play in persuasion

Discover the 4 key types of stories

Learn how to capture and categorize stories

Develop your own Story Matrix

Sales tools used: Story Matrix; Story Canvas

Module 6: Presenting Like a Pro

Discover how to engage your audience and win business

Learn how to utilize your personal presentation strengths

Employ the 4 Ps of presentation to make compelling sales pitches

Sales tools used: Presenting with Panache; VisualsPlacemats

Module 7: Closing the Deal and Getting Deals Unstuck

Learn how to get a deal unstuck and understand that closing is simply the natural outcome of a sale done well

Sales tools used: Getting a Deal Unstuck; Closing Well; Team Selling for Impact

Module 8: Going Above and Beyond

Realize the power of delighting clients

Recognize the importance of the phase that follows a sale

Utilize the tools required to truly delight your customers over the long term

Fireside chat with

Suzanne Muchin

, Clinical Associate Professor of Kellogg Architectures of Collaboration Initiative (KACI) Gender Differences and Personality Traits in Sales

Sales tools used: WinLoss Debrief; Above Beyond; Client Delight Index

Module 9: Team Selling, Giving Feedback and Optimizing the Weekly One-on-One

Examine the roles required for high-impact team selling including the critical role that feedback plays in the weekly one-on-one meetings

Role play with Andew W. Sykes Giving and Receiving Feedback

Fireside chat with Helen Calvin, Chief Revenue Officer, Jellyvision Sales Leadership and Hiring

Fireside chat with Shane Holland, Managing Director, Central Eastern Europe, Google Sales Leadership and Coaching

Sales tools used: Giving ( Receiving) Feedback; Weekly One-on-One

Module 10: Putting Your Powerful Sales Toolkit into Action

Absorb the key lessons, review learnings, and complete the individual capstone project designed to help you teach these tools to others

Fireside chat with Thomas Stovall, Facilitator, Intention Mastery, and Think Like a Startup; Founder, ImBlackInTech Membership Network; Google Entrepreneur-in-Residence Attraction-Based Marketing and Sales

Fireside chat with Andrew W. Sykes Habits

Sales tools used: Knowledge, Skill, Discipline: Current Assessment; Learn. Teach. Do.; My Quarterly Dashboard

Programme Audience

Sales managers or executives looking to effectively coach a team and build a high-performing sales engine
Entrepreneurs looking to build a sales team and acquire customers
Business leaders who would like to be more persuasive and influential
Business development professionals who play a role in sales and managing relationships
Professionals making a horizontal career shift into sales from another functional role

Programme Benefits

Learn proven techniques for being an effective salesperson, based on the facultys research and experience with some of the worlds most successful B2B and B2C companies
Put more than 30 different tools into practice, building a personal Sales Toolkit designed to help you at each phase of your sales process: preparation, contact, and scale
Assess your current knowledge, skill, and discipline as a salesperson and get a roadmap for how to develop meaningful, lasting habits for you and your team
Learn best practices for recruiting, training, building and managing high-performing teams
Receive a Certificate of Completion from Kellogg School of Management Executive Education

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