Sales negotiation course

Learn the art of effective sales negotiation.
Two-days of advanced sales negotiation training with lots of valuable tips, tools and techniques for effective negotiation and objection handling.

Target Audience

For experienced sales people who want to improve their negotiation skills and operate at a senior level in their client organisations. This sales negotiation skills course is for businesses and individuals who want to learn to negotiate effectively and maintain a strong ongoing relationship with the other party.

Course Aim

To enable participants to negotiate constructively with customers and to carry out a negotiation that creates a ‘win-win’ outcome for all parties.

The training builds on participants’ existing negotiation skills and gives them additional tools and techniques to take their skills to the next level. The course also develops the mindset of a successful negotiator.

Course Objectives

By the end of the two-day sales negotiation training course, delegates will have:

• Learnt how negotiation fits into the sales/purchase process and how to handle the price objection effectively, to either remove the need to negotiate, or to create a more advantageous foundation from which to negotiate.
• Understood different styles of negotiation and how they can negotiate constructively with colleagues, suppliers and customers.
• Applied the principles of effective negotiation and the five stages within their practise negotiation conversations.
• Clearly identified their objectives, entry and exit points and tradeables within a negotiation discussion that they may have with a customer.
• Enhanced their communication and interpersonal skills to build and maintain rapport and achieve a win-win outcome through negotiation.
• Practised tested negotiation strategies
• Understood the principles of effective negotiation, including the five stages of negotiating.

Course Overview

• Planning and preparing for a sales negotiation – setting objectives, entry and exit points and establishing tradeables.
• Applying effective communication skills in negotiation – listening, questioning and body language.
• Understanding the client/sourcing/purchasing perspective.
• Conducting negotiation discussions.
• Coming to agreement.
• Negotiation strategies and tactics.
• The mindset of a successful negotiator.

Course Methods

This course will be delivered in a highly engaging and interactive way, focused on the specific needs of the participants and the organisation.

• The trainer will introduce the negotiations process and the underlying skills and techniques
• There will be lots of individual and small group exercises to practise negotiation skills and techniques
• Each participant will have the opportunity to practise at least two negotiations with another party

The sales negotiation training will be supported with:

• An optional participant pre-course questionnaire and/or pre-course reading
• A colour printed workbook with tips, techniques and space for personal notes

Course Overview

Day One

• Welcome
  • Course objectives and outline for the day
  • Introductions
• Negotiating and Selling
  • Negotiation as part of the sales process
  • Handling the price objection
  • What is negotiation?
  • Negotiation exercise
• Golden rules of negotiating
  • Stages/process
  • Environment/pre-requisites
• Planning sales negotiations – stage 1
  • Objectives – seller and buyer
  • Tradeables – seller and buyer
  • Entry and exit points
  • Negotiations planner
  • Introduction to case study
• Communication skills refresher
  • Listening
  • Questioning
  • Body language
• Negotiation discussions – stage 2
  • Testing assumptions
  • Identifying and exchanging information
  • Application and practise using case study

Day Two

• Rapport and relationships
  • Co-operation activity
  • Rapport
  • Practise
• Proposing – stage 3
  • Techniques and skills to advance the sales negotiation
  • Language
  • Application using case study
• Behaviours, beliefs and emotions in sales negotiations
  • Constructive beliefs for negotiating
  • Managing our emotions
• Assertive communication
  • Introduction to assertiveness
  • Assertive behaviour – words, voice & body language
• Bargaining and settling – stages 4 and 5
  • Moving to definite proposals
  • Settling – reaching agreement and setting action plans
  • Applying to the case study
• Negotiation strategy and tactics
  • BATNA
  • Techniques that buyers use and how to respond
  • Tips, tactics and tools
• Applying the learning and next steps
  • Review of learning and action planning
  • Course feedback

Written by Kim Larkins

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Booking Information

This sales negotiation training course is run “in-house” at your business premises, anywhere in the UK, or at a venue of your choice.
Contact us for pricing or to discuss your needs.

Training Dates

Flexible to suit client needs.

In-House Training Locations

We deliver sales and negotiation skills courses to companies across the UK, including the following areas: