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How to Negotiate Favorable Agreements That Last

Overview

Negotiating Profitable Sales is a three day practical workshop to train you in the art of sales and negotiation.

Negotiating Profitable Sales will show you how to:

  • Improve your profit margins
  • Bargain with suppliers
  • Negotiate complicated contracts
  • Negotiate within your organization
  • Negotiate fees and other client services
  • Closer more sales
  • Turn conflict into agreement
  • Build good working relationships
  • Identify customer and client needs
  • Form win-win agreements.

Negotiating Profitable Sales - 3 Days

  1. What is Negotiable?
    The essentials of effective sales negotiation
    Alternative to agreement.

  2. The Negotiation Process
    The R-E-S-P-E-C-T Formula.
    The Seven Steps to Agreement:

    Step 1: Ready Yourself in Anticipation
    Setting achievable objectives
    Gathering critical information
    Preparing a winning strategy
    Choosing the right style.

    Step 2: Explore Each Other's Needs
    Testing your assumptions
    The art of discussion control
    Exploring interests for mutual satisfaction.

    Step 3: Signal for Movement
    Detecting signals
    Responding to signals.

    Step 4: Probe with Proposals

    Step 5: Exchange Concessions
    The do's and don'ts of trading
    Detecting and sidestepping traps
    The "If you will I will".

    Step 6: Close the Deal
    Coping with the last minute demands
    Making an acceptable final offer.

    Step 7: Tie Up the loose ends
    Summarizing items of agreement
    Following through.

  3. Strategy and Tactics - Developing a Winning Strategy
    What strategy works best
    Choosing the winning tactics
    The common tactics
    Countering buying tactics.

  4. Negotiating with Difficult People
    What can go wrong
    Breaking the deadlock
    Turning win-lose into win-win.

  5. Styles of Negotiating
    The win-lose style
    The win-win style.

  6. Building Winning Relationships
    Coping with differences
    The keys to sound communication
    Generating trust.

  7. Increasing Your Influence
    How to read body language
    The art of questioning.

  8. Developing Your Sales Negotiating Strength
    How to persuade others using time, power and information.

  9. Combining your Negotiation and Selling Skills to Close More Sales
    The difference between selling and negotiation
    Integrating your sales and negotiation strategies.


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