This document provides an introduction to a workshop on creating sales magic. It begins by welcoming participants and introducing the facilitator. It then outlines what participants will learn, including establishing rapport, understanding customer needs, and using neuro-linguistic programming techniques. The document discusses the importance of positive image and effective communication skills like eye contact and handshakes. It also introduces key concepts from the workshop like the sales cycle, mental maps, and rapport strategies from NLP.
This document provides an introduction to a workshop on creating sales magic. It begins by welcoming participants and introducing the facilitator. It then outlines what participants will learn, including establishing rapport, understanding customer needs, and using neuro-linguistic programming techniques. The document discusses the importance of positive image and effective communication skills like eye contact and handshakes. It also introduces key concepts from the workshop like the sales cycle, mental maps, and rapport strategies from NLP.
On behalf of BIK & Associates in Singapore, we are pleased to join
hands with AMA Indonesia to present this event to you. First of all, let me extend a warm welcome to you.
This is your personal workbook. It is for you to make full use of during and after this highly interactive course of Creating Sales MAGIC.
As with all kinds of learning, this workshop requires comprehension, understanding, application and reflection to obtain maximum results.
It is highly recommended that you make full use of it to write notes as your resource for future consumption. Much of the information will emerge during interactions with your fellow participants and the facilitator and hence the greater gain in learning.
During the course, you will be asked to:
Be open minded to the concepts and ideas Consider new points about the concepts Try new ways and methodologies Learn from the experience of others Share your experience with others Participate and be involved Have fun
And in return, we will ensure a highly entertaining and intellectual journey towards learning about yourself and getting tips to Create Sales MAGIC.
BILLY KUEEK (Dr) International Speaker/Master Trainer BIK & Associates INTRODUCTION
Your customers dont care how much you know. Until they know how much you care. Gerhard Gshwandtner
Everyone sells. You may or may not be in the profession of selling, but you sell. You sell your services and skills to the company in which you are employed in, you sell ideas and visions as bosses or managers, you sell your charm and personalities to your loved ones, you sell.
The result of your selling can be MAGICAL. It can also be a dread and tiring. It all depends on your attitude and how you do what you do.
This workshop is a part of the Creating Sales MAGIC program, which spans 3 days in its original form. If you have not signed up for the other 2 seminars namely, Power Influencing with NLP and Objections Handling & Power Closing, I strongly urge you to do so. This is so that you can benefit from more of the techniques from the original program to waive more MAGIC, more MAGICALLY. In this workshop, you will:
Gain insights into the 3 ways people buy
Negotiate better deals
Develop long-term relationship with your customers
Master NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Rapport Strategies
Understand how people receive information and their thought preferences
Confirm sales with lesser resistance
Gain Motivation
With that, I wish you success in your sales and marketing career. THE FOUNDATION
To fully appreciate selling and the process with techniques that are concerned with human beings, the following definition must apply:
People buy; organizations dont. People sign a contract or place an order; organizations dont.
The following is compiled from hundreds of interview with customers from every size and type of organization. Whether you sell products or services, this definition is a great place to start, and it can be use by everyone.
From the customers point of view, a professional salesperson:
Take the time to understand what I want and need. Take the time to understand what my company wants and needs. Show me how their products or services can help me succeed or solve problems. Sell me a product or service and begin a trust-oriented relationship. Provide on-going service to help support my continuous success.
In addition to these foundations, you will experience and learn techniques from various fields including Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Selling Techniques and other Psychological Tools that will help facilitate and strengthen your selling skills.
4 KEYS FOR GUARANTEED SUCCESS
The following is reflective of profiles of consistent and successful salesperson. The 4 Keys are:
1. Positive attitude 2. Extraordinary work ethic & personal traits 3. Excellent selling skills 4. 360 product/servant knowledge
THE SALES CYCLE
CLOSING TRIAL CLOSE AND OBJECTIONS HANDLING PRESENT BENEFITS WITH FEATURES TYING TO NEEDS DETERMINING NEEDS RAPPORT AND TRUST ESTABLISHMENT MEETING PROSPECTING/ LEADS GENERATION FOLLOW UP SERVICE The entire sales cycle is aligned to one another. This means that when one part of the cycle is not executed properly, the other parts are affected. For example, if needs are not uncovered or when presentation does not lead in needs to benefits, more objections will arise resulting difficulty in closing. Similarly, if rapport and trust are not established, more objections will emerge. POSITIVE IMAGE OF PROFESSIONALS
Positive image is a combination of many things. These can include:
Dressing Grooming How you Communicate
What kind of impressions are you giving with your dressing and grooming? Are you happy with the way your color coordinates? Are you happy with your hair? Are you happy with your own package?
All the above relates to grooming. What about the way you communicate?
From the onset and in every stages of the sales cycle, you communicate. Even when you are not talking, you communicate. I will stressed on the 2 most important aspects: Eye contact and Handshake.
Eye Contact
There are 3 kinds of eye contact, and all of them communicate about you before you started talking.
Handshake
Shaking hands is the most common form of touch in Asia. The different types of handshakes include:
Cold Fish or Normal Testing Handshake Submissive Dorminant
NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING
Neuro-Linguistic Programming commonly known as NLP, is a field of psychology that examines the different ways that people think and communicate with one another. It is the result of a research done at the University of California at Santa Cruz by Professor Dr. John Grinder and Dr. Richard Bandler.
Primarily, they found that successful therapists are very good at gaining trust of their clients. Trust motivates and their definition is:
We all have different ideas of reality ways in which we perceive the world and we can really trust people who look at the world the way we do
Let me put into perspective what NLP really means to help you understand it better. To do this, we break up the 3 words:
Neuro Refers to the brain and how different people make use of the different senses to understand the world around them, conscious or subconscious.
Linguistic Refers to the way you use language to influence and communicate with others. Your language pattern is a reflection of who you are and what you think.
Programming A program refers to a series of steps taken to achieve the outcome or result. Our results are our programming.
NLP structures and classifies people into 3 representational systems or Mental Maps.
Applying NLP techniques in sales will give you these benefits:
Discover more about people and their thinking patterns within a short time.
Establish rapport and build Trust with anyone.
Read people more accurately and develop strategies to deal with people.
Effect persuasiveness and influence for a more positive outcome.
Close sales with lesser resistance.
Develop and Build Relationship with ease. NLP RAPPORT STRATEGIES
This is a crucial part in selling and a crucial part in relationship building. When you master this, you will be able to boost your rapport with any person you come into contact with and you are going to be compelling and very influential in accomplishing task, carrying out goals and achieving your desired outcomes.
In order to establish trust, rapport must be established. Once a person feels the rapport between you, he or she is likely to trust you.
Rapport is the bridge that helps your delivery of information to the other person in a meaningful and intended way
To establish rapport, be mindful of this NLP principle:
People like people who are like themselves.
This explains why resistance to you will be reduced, because rejecting you is like rejecting themselves. In order to be like someone, you got to know the persons thinking pattern, so that you can adjust accordingly and be like them. NLP is an excellent and yet simple way to make someone feel comfortable and warm with you.
There are 4 steps to establish rapport, using NLP:
Calibration
This process involves recognizing Thinking Patterns through the persons use of Words, Eye Movements and other characteristics.
Matching
Matching is a process where you use the same set of words and follow the thinking patterns of your customers.
Mirroring
Mirroring simply refers to copying and form of mirror image on the external.
Pacing and Leading
Pacing refers to the matching of emotion and leading refers to a change in state. MENTAL MAPS/REPRESENTATIONAL SYSTEMS
Because a persons mind and how it works to make sense of the environment is primarily through the 5 senses, our thinking pattern is related to how we use our 5 senses. NLP classifies thinking patterns into the following:
Visual Auditory Kinesthetic Olfactory Gustatory
For this workshop, we will concentrate only on 3 of the above, Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic. Because of the way we think, we use words differently.
Visuals tend to use words like:
Can you show me? I see what you mean Can you picture that That looks great Imagine what would happen if
Auditory people tend to use words like:
Sounds good to me Many people say that... Tell me how I can use this product Does this ring a bell to you? May I ask about...?
Kinesthetic people will use words like:
Heres how I feel about what you just demonstrated How does that grab you? The idea rubs me the wrong way I can handle that I think this product can affect me tremendously
SENSORY ACUITY
Besides observing and listening to the words people use, in order to determine their thinking patterns, NLP provides a trail of characteristics that we can observe. The main thing here is to heighten our senses and be more aware of little signals that the person in front of you projects, knowingly or unknowingly, conscious or subconscious.
Eye Accessing Cues
When people think, their eyes move. In NLP, we observed this and we called it Eye Accessing Cues. A persons eye movement gives away their thinking patterns and gives us a gauge as to what they are thinking.
APPLICATIONS OF NLP IN SELLING
WHEN SELLING TO VISUALS
You have understood how Visuals process information and the way in which they prefer the delivery of information and communication style. When selling to Visuals, you should be using Visual words as well as mirror, match and pace their characteristics. Seems difficult? Let us start with one predicate or characteristic at a time. When you have mastered the use of word predicates, proceed to breathing and so forth.
In the process of presentation, constantly check to see if your prospect is with you. Signals can include their eye movements or by observing their pupil dilation. Pupil dilation can be described as glowing eyes. Physically, the pupil of the eye will open bigger, a natural happening when a person is interested. This is because your utilization of Visual words has enabled your prospect to understand you quickly.
When you are communicating with your prospect in their preferred mode, you are automatically building rapport because you are indirectly telling them that you understand them. People like to be understood because this demonstrated your genuine interest in them. After all, what is the point of dressing to kill and combing or brushing, gelling, and spraying our hair the way we painstakingly do if we do not want to be attractive?
Visuals can see what you have told them. Sounds funny? That is how it works. A typical sentence from a Visual would be, I can see what you mean. In your sales kit, always bring along brochures and graphs, charts and pictures so that you can show it to the Visuals. This is also one reason why Top Insurance Sales people carry with them blank papers to draw pictures and write figures when presenting their financial plan.
When talking to Visuals, use your hands to draw pictures in the air. Move your hands to their right when painting a picture of their future and what your product can do to improve their lives. Remember that Visuals construct images on their right. You should also note that they have to be right-handed or it works the other way round.
Once again, for easy reference, the following are the pointers:
Bring brochures and pictures in your sales kit Use your hands Maximize the effect of facial expression Maintain eye contact
WHEN SELLING TO AUDITORIES
During your presentation, constantly check with Auditory people with questions like, How does this sound to you? or Does this ring a bell? Not only are you able to check that they are following and understood your presentation, you are communicating in auditory word predicates. This in itself establishes rapport and they will be more open and comfortable with you.
When presenting, remember to highlight the auditory qualities of your product or services. When selling a house for real estate agents, stress the peace and quiet of the environment.
Auditory people are profoundly affected by what they hear. They formed opinions and judgments from the input into their sense of hearing. Having a good pool of words can also have a positive effect on auditory people. Words like Angry, Annoyed and Agitated when used together have, tremendous impact on auditory people. Your use of words enables Auditory people to process information easily and hence, they like and trust you instantly.
Tone down your pitch, make sure you sound good and resonate when speaking. By resonating, I do not mean that you speak loudly or thunderously. It means that you will speak from your diaphragm, which in turn creates oomph in your voice. All these components when added together, gives that impact.
Besides your words and voice intonation, music is exceptionally useful when talking to auditory people too. Remember to playback soothing music when meeting your prospect in your office. Bring your auditory prospects to places that play pleasant music when discussing business because they are very sensitive to it. Music has the ability to make one relaxed whether or not the person is auditory, imagine the effect it can have on auditory people.
For the Sales Professional who happened to encounter a Professional Secretary who is so good at blocking you from speaking to the decision maker, send a cassette tape to your prospect. Make the tape yourself. You can introduce yourself, your product and your organization to your prospect. Remember the AIDA technique that we have discussed? Use it!
When showing an illustration or a page of text to an Auditory, you must also explain. Auditory people typically do not read the text entirely but rather hear from you.
Speak at a moderate pace Use Auditory words and expressive tone Explain Intonation, lower pitch and resonate Listen attentively when they speak
WHEN SELLING TO KINESTHETICS
Likewise, you would talk to kinesthetic people based on the same principle as talking to a visual person or an auditory prospect. Use their language.
Throughout your conversation, check their feelings. Ask them questions like, What do you feel about this? or How does this grab you? These questions ask them for feelings and instantaneously, they understand you. They would have the impression that dealing with you is easy and comfortable. Thats it!
When presenting using a product sample or brochure, let them touch it, feel it and caress it if they like. Let them touch something.
I have seen salespeople dealing with kinesthetic prospects and holding on to their own sample all the time without letting their prospect touch it when all the while, the poor prospect was dying to feel the sample. No sale, naturally! And, this could be because the sales person is kinesthetic by nature too. Be aware of yourself.
One particular incident occurred when I was in Jakarta during an exhibition on handcrafted crystals. The crafting of crystal is a very intricate process and the crystals itself are expensive. Perhaps the sales person was concerned with breakage, he cling on to the piece of art throughout the selling process. Meanwhile, I could see that the prospect was dying to feel the piece of art which, incidentally was going to cost him US $32,000 dollars. It is very evident from the way the prospect was extending his hand towards the sales person, but he was too carried away talking and talking. A mismatch had occurred between an Auditory and a Kinesthetic.
If you are selling cars, let them feel the texture of the fabrics, the wood trim or the leather. Make them sit in the car and feel the ambience and smell the leather. Kinesthetic people believe in what they feel.
When talking to kinesthetic prospect, solicit emotions, be dramatic if you have to and they will remember the feelings they have had with you.
Take note of the following points:
Use Kinesthetic word predicates Solicit Emotions and feelings when talking Let them feel and touch your brochure, product or sample Make body contact (Nope, not touching anyhow but touch them at their elbow or shoulder)
CONCLUSION
Congratulations!!! You are now equipped with the skills to effectively sell, using the NLP way. As the tools and techniques you hold with you are very potent, it is important that you practice with care and love.
These skills and techniques that you are now aware of are only as useful as you use it and use it positively you MUST. This is because I have observed many people who uses these skills to manipulate instead of influence. The difference of which is in the intention.
Everyone of us have to dance with life and others, you might as well learn a few new steps .
These skills and techniques are yet another miracle methodology. Miracle provided you use it.
To provide feedback to this program, kindly write to
Dr. Billy Kueek Principal Consultant/Trainer BIK & Associates Web: http://BIKsolutions.com Email: [email protected]
Trainer Profile
Dr. Billy Kueek is a dynamic and inspirational trainer who facilitates, consults and speaks in areas relating to Leadership Development, Communications, Strategic Management, Marketing Management, Strategic human Resource Development and he also empowers people to excel through Core skills. Billy is equipped with knowledge, skills and abilities coupled with his inspirational nature to empower individuals and to boost performance and productivity of companies and organizations. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Organizational Psychology, a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) and a Doctorate degree in Business Administration. Currently, he is pursuing his second doctorate.
In addition to formal credentials, Billy is a Certified Master Clinical Hypnotherapist (IACT-USA), a Stress Management Consultant (CSMC) and is also certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) training. He is a member of the Singapore Training And Development Association, the International Association of Counselors & Therapists, Associate Trainer with several renowned training institutions around the region and he runs his own consulting and training company, BIK & Associates.
Billy is available for public speaking engagements and functions as well as in- house training and consulting and he assures the quality of his service as he brings with him a wealth of experience from his extensive traveling and diverse exposures. He has trained and addressed thousands of people from more than 20 countries. His participants come from Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh and he has also reached audiences as far as Australia, New Zealand Italy, Germany, the French Polynesia island of Tahiti and the United States of America.
An extremely personable character that sets him apart coupled with the ability to engage his audiences makes him a popular choice among his audiences.
Nobody plans to fail. People fail to plan. Winners are those who Plan their Work and Work their Plan - Billy Kueek
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