Negotiating to Yes
Negotiation is an ever-present part of any sales process. It occurs informally throughout the sales process and more formally when specific proposals and agreements are on the table. Effective negotiating protects sales revenue and improves profit margins. If you want your salespeople to improve profitability, compete on value rather than price, and enhance how customers perceive your credibility and the value of your capabilities and products, then Negotiating to Yes can help.
Negotiating to Yes (NTY) helps salespeople become better negotiators. It is based on the concept of Principled Negotiation, a method that offers salespeople an efficient process for reaching optimal business agreements that are satisfying to both parties and actually strengthen professional relationships.
Programme Outcomes
NTY gives salespeople a proven approach for turning face-to-face confrontation into side-by-side problem solving. Implemented as a flexible and integrated human performance improvement solution, it enables the establishment of win-win business agreements that lead to long-term customer relationships. It also teaches skills for effective coaching and performance management and provides a variety of tools that can increase top-line sales performance.
Approach
Wilson Learning believes that learning must be transferred to day-to-day work practises. To achieve this, NTY includes components and activities that enhance Participant Readiness, Learning Transfer, and Organisational Alignment.
Participant Readiness prepares participants and managers for the learning experience:
- Pre-workshop communication and assignment
Learning Transfer design embeds practice and use of new skills. The learning can be flexibly delivered as a:
- Two-day face-to-face application-oriented workshop
- Modular workshop, delivered over non-consecutive days to allow application between sessions
All can be delivered in modular format over non-consecutive days to allow application between sessions. The face-to-face workshop can be taught by a Wilson Learning facilitator or by an organisation’s own leader-trained in-house professional.
Organisational Alignment Ensures the organisation supports the use of the new skills:
- Post-learning reinforcement activities available for both the manager and salesperson
As a result, salespeople will continue to apply the skills and tools learned long after the learning event is completed.
Enabling Improved Performance
Negotiating to Yes (NTY) includes various performance application, reinforcement, and support tools, such as application exercises, job aid cards, electronic reinforcement tools, performance checklists, etc. These tools ensure that participants can hone newly acquired skills and behaviours upon returning to work. Involving sales managers early on and training them to coach for Principled Negotiation is critical to successful programme implementation.
To discover how we ensure learning is reinforced and applied for improved performance, see our Learning Transfer Approach.
Evaluation
Client Results:
Premier Global Fine Art Auction House Increases Revenue by 18% Through Advanced Negotiation Skills
Organisations that implement NTY have access to specially developed measurement and evaluation tools. NTY customers receive a Negotiation Strategiser that helps sales managers review skills used in a negotiation and track the actual impact of Principled Negotiation skills on real sales performance.
To learn more about measuring the impact of learning, visit Measurement and Evaluation Services.
Wilson Learning will partner with your organisation to measure the initial behavioural changes and business results. We will work with you to set up evaluation systems that help improve outcomes and sustain the momentum of your implementation.
This offering, like all others from Wilson Learning, can be customised to reflect your sales environment and business priorities and can be integrated with your sales process.
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