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Consultative Selling
The solution to selling in a highly competitive banking
environment
A few tips about your web seminar today:
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About Our Guest Speakers:
Steve Aronson is president of High Performance Learning. With more than twenty-five years in the consulting and training industry, Steve has worked with leading manufacturing, hi-tech and financial service companies throughout the United States. HPL has offices in Boston, Washington, DC and West Palm Beach.
Prior to founding HPL in 1994, Steve was one of the original founders of ODI in Burlington, MA. Steve helped the company grow to over 40 million dollars in revenues, with offices in ten major cities. As Senior Vice President, he helped ODI to be recognized as one of the “INC 500” fastest growing privately held companies in America. Steve received his undergraduate degree and MBA from Boston University’s Graduate School of Management.
Wendy J. Barnes is a Senior Level Consultant and Facilitator with High Performance Learning, Inc. She has over twenty years of experience as a corporate executive, consultant, and trainer, with a strong background in sales, sales management, customer service and leadership training. Prior to joining High Performance Learning in 1998, Ms. Barnes was Vice President of Corporate Training and Development for Glemby International, where she was responsible for the development and implementation of all sales, retail, customer service, and management training, overseeing 20 corporate trainers and 185 divisional trainers worldwide. Previously she worked as a Senior Trainer and Internal Consultant for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., Inc., and earlier as an individual, group, and family therapist for several federal programs. Ms. Barnes has been a keynote speaker for a number of national conferences, most recently speaking on issues of internal customer service to a Special Interest Group of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Wendy has an M.S. in psychology from Indiana University and a B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College.
About High Performance Learning:
Since 1994, High Performance Learning, Inc. (HPL) has provided consulting services and training programs to more than three hundred hi-tech, financial service and manufacturing clients. We have 25 senior level consultants and trainers located throughout the United States, who conduct more than 50 different training programs.
To mention just a few clients who have successfully implemented our Workshops for Banking:
Middlesex Savings Bank Century Bank Brookline Bank Salem Five Bank of Canton NMTW Credit Union Clinton Savings Bank Country Bank for Savings
HPL Training Programs for Banking:
Consultative Selling Delighting Your Customers Leadership & Management Process/Lean Improvement Behavioral Interviewing Conflict Resolution Time Management
Consultative Selling
The solution to selling in a highly
competitive banking
environment
During the past 20 years, not only have great changes
taken place, but competition in the
banking industry has grown exponentially!
Consultative Selling
Customized Workshops
Branch Mangers & Loan Officers
Assistant Mangers and Head Tellers
Customer Service Rep’s and Tellers
Module 1: Overview
By the end of this module you will be able to:
understand a customer’s decision-making process
explain the fundamentals of consultative selling
understand key challenges to successful consultative selling
Your “Consulting” Role partnering with your customers sharing your expertise collaborating to solve their problems and address their needs
Module 2: Skills
By the end of this module you will be able to:
establish trust and credibility with potential customers utilize effective communication skills understand the psychology behind selling
Relationship DriversD ependabilityR esponsivenessI ntegrityV alueE xpertise
Customers can fear . . .
. . . salespeople . . . being lied to . . . making bad decisions . . . embarrassment . . . debt
Consultative Sales Process
Pre-Planning
Opening the Sales Call
Probing: Uncovering Priorities
Providing Solutions
Closing: Gaining Commitment
Module 3: Pre-PlanningBy the end of this module you will understand the
importance of:
using a Sales Call Planner for planning a sales meeting with a prospective customer
having good product knowledge familiarizing yourself with forms and brochures understanding a customer’s account computer screen
Module 4: Opening
By the end of this module you will be able to:
establish positive first impressions plan and deliver effective sales openers that gain the customer’s
attention and involvement apply the 3 R’s (rapport, reason, reaction) to an actual prospect
Module 5: Probing
By the end of this module you will be able to: understand the five categories of product/service needs use various questioning methodologies to uncover priorities and
motivate the buyer:• exploratory• uncovering needs/priorities• impact analysis• what-if
Customer Needs/Priorities
P erformanceR elationshipI mageD eliveryE xpense
Module 6: SolutionsBy the end of this module you will be able to:
define and differentiate between features and benefits
relate benefits to customer priorities
support benefits with visual aids
interpret and handle customer feedback
Module 7: Closing
By the end of this module you will be able to:
understand when to bring sales meeting to a close gain a customer’s commitment to move forward utilize several closing effectively follow-up a sales meeting
Closing Strategies Low Value Sales High Value Sales • Ask for Sale • Propose commitment
• Assumptive Technique to next step: • Presumptive Choice “I suggest….” • Urgency Technique “I recommend…..”
“I advise….”
Selling Against the Competition
By the end of this module you will be able to:
differentiate yourself from the competition apply strategies for challenging the competition employ value-added selling
Manager Modules
Developing Leads, Networking, and Qualifying Prospects
Getting an Appointment and the Cold Call
Coaching for Improved Performance
Module: Teller Tips
By the end of this module you will be able to:
recognize “customer need” cues effectively make referral
Q&AFor Additional Information Contact:
E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected] us at 508-877-3600
www.hplinc.com High Performance Learning, Inc.
53 Flanagan Drive Framingham, MA 01701