Counseling For Improved Sales Performance

The course explains when coaching fails to improve performance, behavior, & motivation, it’s time for Counseling.

What you'll learn

Discover the importance of counseling to solve sales performance problems.

Explore how to improve attitude, motivation, or behavior challenges.

Identify how to follow-up with an action plan, and next steps, if needed.

Requirements

There is no advanced preparation required. We recommend that you complete related courses: Sales Coaching for Results, and Sales Leadership courses 1 & 2.

Description

Sales coaching is ideal for skill development but often falls short when unrelated or non-skill problems arise.  That’s where counseling comes in to handle attitude, behavior, and motivation problems that impact a person’s performance. Counseling can be helpful when a salesperson fails to improve skills in spite of coaching, or provides challenges like a bad attitude, insufficient motivation, poor work ethic, etc.In this course, the participant learns the difference between coaching and counseling, when to use counseling, and we will discover the process and pitfalls that make counseling an effective sales management tool.Counseling is a private and sensitive skill and needs to be planned carefully.  Identifying a counseling problem is only the beginning and must be followed by careful documentation and preparation. One of the key concepts is developing an opening statement to share your concern and to set the stage for a productive counseling session. In addition, participants learn to plan questions to gain agreement, identify the cause, and solicit input for improving the situation.Effective counseling will generate a jointly-created action plan for improvement, monitored by the sales manager.  Finally, if counseling fails, the participant will learn about possible next steps, discipline and termination.This course is brought to you by Illumeo. Illumeo, incorporated in 2009, is revolutionizing the hide-bound world of corporate learning. Illumeo works with corporate professionals and organizations of all sizes to build the skills and capabilities that help everyone be an expert at their job. Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo serves thousands of corporations and corporate professionals across Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing. The platform offers assessments, industry-benchmarked competency analyses, hundreds of expert-developed courses, collaborative tools, and the ability for companies to self-publish internal courses that promote institutional knowledge retention and dissemination. Illumeo is the place for expertise management and we are dedicated to the proposition that everyone can be an expert at their job.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to Counseling to Improve Sales Performance

Lecture 2 Counseling

Lecture 3 Counseling Planning Steps

Lecture 4 Conducting the Counseling Session

Lecture 5 Conclusion

Section 2: Supporting Materials

Lecture 6 Slides: Counseling for Improved Sales Performance

Lecture 7 Counseling for Improved Sales Performance Glossary/Index

Section 3: Review and Test

Anyone interested in Leadership and Management, Sales & Marketing, personal Development or related fields.