Timing is everything. I just spent three days with a highly talented sales team in Cincinnati. Together, we worked on taking their sales skills to the next level. In the post workshop surveys, the participants gave a lot of great feedback. One learning mentioned in their comments really stood out to me: Restraint. Over the course of the three day workshop, we talked a lot about exercising restraint as a tool to focus the conversation on our customer, not ourselves and our company. With this one intentional shift, we will be able to make a surgically precise proposal to our customer — as opposed to a scattershot proposal, which goes all over the place! How well do you exercise restraint in the sales process? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!
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