Maximizing Your Sales-Ability™


Module 2...Personal Self-Assessment

 

Overview

Personal Evaluation
The Winning Edge
Thirteen (13) Selling Skills
Personal Attributes
Outcomes and Objectives

 

Objectives

You will be able to:

*Develop self-awareness and self-understanding.
*Identify your strengths and areas for improvement.
*Assess your capabilities in the 13 key selling skills.
*Measure your self in the 24 personal attributes common to success.
*Set your objectives and outcomes for this program.
*Make the minor shifts necessary to create your "winning edge."

 

"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes."
Carl Jung

 

Personal Evaluation

Requirements for professional development . . .
*Intellectual honesty;
*Emotional courage;
*Self-awareness, self-understanding.

Starting point - where are you now?


The Winning Edge


Success = knowledge + wisdom.

Identify... your skills, attributes, characteristics; sources of strength, confidence.

Develop... your areas of excellence; get a realistic grasp of your value.

Exploit... your best talents, nurture skills.

Don't... battle deficiencies.

Do... what you do best, like most.

Focus (of energy) vs. diffusion (of efforts);

Key... modify a known success.

 

Thirteen (13) Selling Skills

Rate yourself in the following key selling skills: Today's Date is _______________:

1 - Exceptional 2 - Strong 3 - Good 4 - Fair 5 - Unsatisfactory

1. Prospecting - sifting through large numbers of people or businesses to find the ideal or best candidates for your products and services. __________

2. Marketing - building relationships and benefit bridges to your ideal prospects. __________

3. Telephoning - using the telephone to prospect, market and get appointments. __________

4. Appointments - asking for and getting face-to-face meetings with people who are ready-to-buy or soon-to-buy. __________

5. Qualifying - assessing a person's state of felt dissatisfaction; the readiness to make a decision and take action. __________

6. Trust and Credibility - developing professional rapport and earning respect. __________

7. Questioning - the master selling skill; the ability to investigate, fact-find and elicit the important wants and needs of your client. __________

8. Demonstrating Capability - presenting solutions and benefits to explicit needs and recommending an appropriate course of action. __________

9. Handling Objections - answering questions, handling concerns and resolving issues. __________

10. Obtaining Commitment - asking for and receiving agreement from your client to proceed with your recommendation(s). __________

11. Follow-up - delivery and service. Reinforcing and expanding your client relationships; implementing an ongoing, value-added service commitment. __________

12. Referrals - continuous introduction to qualified new prospects from existing clients. __________

13. Business Management - ability to balance and manage time and activities necessary to run a profitable sales business. __________

 

Using the same 1 - 5 scale, rate your . . .

24 Personal Attributes

1. Attitude and Thinking _____________
2. Creativity, Imagination _____________
3. Responsibility _____________
4. Initiative (pro-activity) _____________
5. Flexibility - Openness _____________
6. Courage, Persistence _____________
7. Passion, Enthusiasm _____________
8. Personal Expectations _____________
9. Human Relations _____________
10. Sensitivity, Empathy _____________
11. Listening (receiving) _____________
12. Communicating (sending) _____________
13. Discipline _____________
14. Self-esteem _____________
15. Self-confidence _____________
16. Health/Appearance _____________
17. Risk Tolerance _____________
18. Results Orientation _____________
19. Think Win/Win _____________
20. Value Time _____________
21. Synergy with Others _____________
22. Decisiveness _____________
23. Commitment _____________
24. Personal Renewal _____________

Your Outcomes and Objectives

What was revealed to you?
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What do you want to achieve in your career?
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How will you know when you get it?
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What will you do to reach your objective?
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What is the first step you must take?
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My Personal Self-Assessment

My Selling Strengths Rating My Personal Strengths Rating
1. ______ 1. ______
2. ______ 2. ______
3. ______ 3. ______
4. ______ 4. ______
5. ______ 5. ______

What I discovered about myself is . . .
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What was revealed that will help me is . . .
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