Workshop
Virtual Sales Sprints
Distributed Design Thinking & Facilitation for Sales
Sales discovery is slow and inefficient…it’s easy to go down the wrong path and not always clear where real possibilities lie. This is where the methods of design-thinking come in handy – they are not just effective for designers and product creators to validate value. And if you have used design-thinking in your sales process before, it is a new challenge when everyone is suddenly virtual.
Date
July 14, 2020
Time
11am - 4pm CT
Location
Live Online
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What to expect
What to Expect
Rather than spend weeks on interviews and synthesis, you can bring all your key stakeholders together for a powerful facilitated virtual session. A Virtual Sales Sprint can jump-start your sales process or amplify your sales enablement efforts using the latest virtual design thinking techniques. Keeping virtual meeting participants engaged requires more than an agenda. We will coach you how to leverage new paradigms like design-thinking, sensemaking, and capturing virtual room intelligence. Lastly, we will show you how to capture feedback so that each member in the meeting is leveling up and gaining more clarity.
What You'll Learn
Even if you are not a professional facilitator, many of us have to play the role of facilitator at key moments in our day-to-day sales work. Here’s your chance to learn tools to do it more successfully. Our workshop will help you lead and guide teams through important gatherings (think: “lockdowns,” working sessions, strategic meetings, etc.) to achieve better outcomes. You will be skilled at developing focused agendas, leading collaborative activities, remaining impartial, and keeping participants on task.
How You'll Learn
The class will be activity-based with facilitation simulations and collaborative sessions. You’ll have the chance to try new facilitation approaches and frameworks in a safe space. We won’t just talk at you — you’ll learn through doing, work with other participants, and get feedback. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so you can learn from our experience running hundreds of workshops at some of the world’s largest enterprises.
Agenda
Deep Work Session 1
The backbone of effective design-thinking within sales
Deep Work Session 2
The frameworks for participatory decision making
Deep Work Session 3
The best in class design thinking tools
Deep Work Session 4
Level up with sales feedback like a pro
Who Should Attend
Early career professionals
looking to learn the essential best practices that give a foundation for rapid enhancement.
Senior professionals
who want to amplify their existing skills through practice in a safe environment while gaining familiarity with the latest tools.
Professional sales teams
who want to apply facilitation and best in class design thinking tools to their approach
Facilitators
who want to apply professional sales skills and frameworks in order to close more clients.
Key Takeaways
Your unique mix of strengths and weaknesses
Simple virtual tools to transform everyday meetings
Strategies to address meeting dysfunction
A personalized plan for your meeting culture
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What People Are Saying
"As a career leader in sales, sales curriculum design & education and leadership development, I love the experience of selling and facilitation. Creating, coaching and guiding people through a sales process (or any change experience for that matter) requires one to have a sincere desire to help people. The process of selling is about exchanging one’s resources for someone else’s because you truly believe they will benefit. And that is the ethos of facilitation, guiding people to co-create solutions that work for them. Add a layer of design thinking methodology to the mix, and one arrives a truly client centric approach to the sales experience. This program sits at the cross hairs of the sales, design thinking and facilitation disciplines, with an authentic commitment to delivering a human centered approach. If you have a sales process - great! Use these tools creatively to elevate your client experiences throughout your process. If you don’t yet have a sales process, acquiring the skills and disciplines necessary to use these tools will inspire you to create “fundamentally human” experiences and processes that matter to your prospects, clients, your organization and you. "
April A.
GLOBAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
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