Conceptual Selling®
Develop meeting strategies that lead to better outcomes.
Don’t leave customer interactions to chance.
Your sales team’s ability to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace hinges on sellers’ interactions with customers. Conceptual Selling® helps sellers prepare for meetings with buyers, whether planned or impromptu.
Sales success requires both a sales process and plan for customer interactions. Conceptual Selling® focuses on customer-centric conversations, building on the strategic analysis covered in Strategic Selling® with Perspective. As a result, sellers learn how to carefully assess buyer needs, avoiding misalignment between what customers want and what sellers are presenting.
This sales training program provides a simple, repeatable structure essential for anyone who interacts with customers.
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Benefits of Conceptual Selling® Sales Training
Prepare for Sales Conversations
Plan ahead and conduct thorough research, adding discipline to customer meetings that are client focused and results oriented.
Align Buyer and Seller Objectives
Both you and your customers have goals. Align seller objectives with buyer needs to keep everyone on the same page.
Run the Meeting
Use our Green Sheet to organise and develop a detailed meeting plan to engage customers and build win-win outcomes.
Ensure Productive Use of Time
Move opportunities forward by asking the right questions and planning ahead to ensure productive use of time.
Differentiate Your Solution
Conclude meetings with a clear differentiation of your solution that will move the opportunity forward.
Backed by Technology
Our new sales analytics platform, Scout by Miller Heiman Group uses data and analytics to support the methodology of Conceptual Selling®.
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Australia and New Zealand Sales Training from Miller Heiman Group
We work with Australia and New Zealand's leading businesses, providing best-in-class sales training and sales consulting services. We support all major industries in both Australia and New Zealand, with full support across New Zealand, including Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and other major cities, and support for clients in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth and other locations in Australia.
Key Learnings from Conceptual Selling Sales Training Classes
To succeed in sales, every interaction with customers must be treated as an opportunity to move forward or improve the relationship.
Today, effective sales training must put the customer at the centre of all sales training courses. Customers sift through more information than ever before, leading to information overload and difficulty in sales planning. When sellers plan for these valuable interactions more effectively, they not only maximise their time with customers, they also increase the likelihood of an opportunity closing and uncover more potential opportunities.
Sellers in Australia and New Zealand who take this sales training course will learn that:
- Anytime a salesperson meets with a customer, two processes take place simultaneously. While salespeople have typically been trained to focus on the selling process, from the customer's perspective, there is also a buying process that must be recognised and understood. Solving the misalignment between these two processes is an outcome of Conceptual Selling.
- There is no such thing as one-size-fits-all solutions or value propositions for customers. The only way to understand what will help you win is to ask the right questions and listen. This sales training class provides the simple, repeatable structure that should be considered essential for anyone who interacts with customers.
This is one of our most popular and most effective sales training classes available to sellers, often making top-ten lists for teams building enterprise sales strategies and for sales leadership searching for effective sales training courses.
Taking it will allow you to enhance all of your sales interactions with customers, whether you are engaging them in a scheduled, multi-attendee meeting or an impromptu, one-to-one session.
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Learn MoreFive Characteristics of Effective Sales Training Classes for Better Sales Meetings
A sales team's ability to differentiate from competitors often hinges on their ability to provide value to their customers in every interaction.
Sales leadership at companies of all sizes constantly face the same questions. How can I build skills in my sellers that will help them conduct more impactful customer meetings? How can I implement an effective sales training programme that provides a framework for my sellers to provide value to our customers every time they interact?
Here are five seller best practises taught in this highly-effective sales training class that will ensure your sales reps have better sales meetings after they've completed the training:
- Prepare in Advance. Take time to create a detailed plan ahead of time and conduct thorough research on your customer and attendees of the meeting, adding structure to customer meetings that are client-focused and provide value to both parties.
- Align Buyer and Seller Objectives. You and your customers both have goals and aspirations for your partnership. Align your objectives with your buyer's needs to ensure everyone is on the same page and driving toward win-win outcomes.
- Control and Run the Meeting. Use the iconic Conceptual Selling Green Sheet to organise your plan and develop a detailed meeting strategy that engages your customers.
- Make the Most of Your Time. Move opportunities forward by asking the right questions and anticipating your customer's answers to ensure a productive use of time. Then build a mutually beneficial series of next steps to continue to move the deal forward.
- Differentiate Your Solution. Conclude meetings with a clear differentiation of your solution that will move the deal and show your customer that your partnership is built on shared value.
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Learn MoreConnecting Sales Training to Sales Technology
Tapping into effective sales training classes doesn't stop when the course is over.
To drive home the importance of these selling best practises, world-class sales organisations take steps to connect effective sales training classes with their sales technology platform.
Sales training classes must go beyond the curriculum and incorporate an aligned technology capability that allows sellers to complete pre- and post-course tasks digitally, as well as manage their pipeline and track essential activities needed to move their deals forward.
Sales leadership from top-performing organisations can get dramatically increased seller productivity by connecting the curricula of our renowned sales training classes to our award-winning sales technology platform, Scout by Miller Heiman Group, and to our digital learning sales training platforms, which provide anytime, anywhere access to our sales training courses.
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Learn MoreWhy Conceptual Selling Is the Right Sales Training Class for You
Conceptual Selling provides value in focusing on something the best salespeople excel at: building strong relationships with their customers. These sellers take the time to build their sales capability and understand their customers, so they can provide value in every interaction.
This effective sales training is the right course for you if you want to:
- Use our Miller Heiman Group Green Sheets to bring strategy to each and every sales interaction
- Eliminate non-productive customer meetings
- Ensure opportunities advance toward closed business with every interaction
- Develop meeting strategies that lead to purposeful meetings and win-win outcomes
- Strengthen customer relationships
As a participant in this highly regarded sales training class, you'll receive your own personal edition of the Conceptual Selling course, delivered digitally or in-person based on your preference, so you can access it at your own pace.
You'll also receive access to Miller Heiman Group's Green Sheet Meeting Planner, as well as all digital reinforcement materials that will help you to take your course learnings into real-life scenarios with your clients and start experiencing the power of this structured methodology.
Conceptual Selling is just one of Miller Heiman Group's many sales training classes. Learn more about the other award-winning sales training courses Miller Heiman Group has to offer. A quick conversation with one of our sales training advisors will make sure you're choosing the best sales training to meet your specific objectives.
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Learn MoreGetting Started with Conceptual Selling
Every interaction with a customer is too important to leave to chance. Conceptual Selling directs sellers to customer-focused interactions that help salespeople better prepare for their time with customers.
Optimising time spent with customers is a pillar for world-class sales training classes, as research suggests that seller productivity increases when the value of their customer interactions increases. The result is purposeful meetings and win-win outcomes.
To maintain a highly competitive team with world-class sales capability, every interaction with customers must be conducted to either move an opportunity forward or improve the relationship.
Solving the misalignment between these two processes is an outcome of Conceptual Selling and its emphasis on customer-focused interactions.
There is no such thing as one-size-fits-all solutions or value propositions for customers. The only way to understand what will help you win is to ask the right questions and listen. Regardless of the circumstances, this effective sales training class enhances how salespeople execute in all of their interactions with customers.
This programme provides the simple, repeatable structure that should be considered essential for anyone who interacts with prospects and customers.