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...any of the 50 topics can be customised to meet your specific needs – and if there is a topic we don’t cover, please just ask.
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- manage being overloaded
- tackle poor performance
- be more persuasive
- build a value-led team
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“My coach provided precise and analytical questioning that encouraged me to resolve my own questions (with guidance). He did not tell me what to do, instead he questioned my questioning, probed my answers and challenged my preconceptions.”
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Top Tens Podcast
Icebreaking Techniques
10 key activities that, over the years, have proved very effective as icebreaker introductions to any new group...
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Effective Top Tens - Podcast
Storytelling Podcast
Effective Storytelling - Podcast
Videos
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Customer Service Grid
The customer service grid outlines the four key factors your organisation needs to get right to please and retain your customers - your core and ancillary services, and your standards and targets in each of these areas.
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Articles & Blog Posts
Top 10 LinkedIn Posts of 2021
Our selection of the top ten posts we thought outstanding during 2021...
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& our recommends from elsewhere... this week's theme:
Customer Service
TED talks
Dare to Say No
University student hoping to empower his audience by explaining why saying 'no', though uncomfortable in the short term, might be beneficial in the longer term
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TV & Movie Clips
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“BIG Mistake… Big… Huge…”
From the movie 'Pretty Woman' demonstrating the missed opportunity of poor customer service...
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Podcasts
Experience this!
Different leaders as guests sharing their views on successful customer strategies
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Books
Strategic Customer Service
One of the few books that takes a strategic approach to customer service
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Soft Selling
workshop outline
For anyone who wants to be persuasive and get others’ buy in, but is averse to traditional ideas about selling; or for team leaders who would like to introduce soft selling to their teams
This outline is for the half day workshop... for an outline of the full day and bitesize (90 minute) version, please get in touch.
Learning Outcomes
Clear understanding of what is meant by ‘soft selling’
Overcome barriers to, and reframe ‘selling’
Identify and develop key ‘soft selling’ skills
Feel able to ‘soft sell’ with confidence
Content
Case study: what would you do?
Two ways of selling
6 steps to soft selling
Core soft selling skills
Role play: principles into practice
Self assessment
Learning Approaches
core learning input
tools & templates
paired activities
role play & simulation
open discussion
casework
self-assessment questionnaire
We're always happy to customise... just get in touch :-)
Excellent, informative, and more sessions would be useful. Provided a lot to think about afterwards
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