“Buyers are treating us as a commodity” “Its all about Price, Price, Price” “We aren’t competitive at that price point” Given how often we have heard these statements over the last few years, I would be surprised if they were not common phrases within your sales team.- even in complex sales, we find that customers […]
View Post coaching, Sales, Value propositionFor the last 9 years Greenbank have been working with a great group of nutritional scientists from across Europe who are part of the wonderful network group ENLP. Together, we have developed a transformative annual development programme – ENLP Advanced – aimed at supporting senior leaders in academia, industry and not-for-profit associations. The programme is highly […]
View Post Adobe Connect, ENLP, Virtual Coaching, Virtual Sales Training, Virtual WorkshopsTransforming learning & development – quickly & easily Our personal thoughts on how to create high-impact virtual training programmes It was Plato who first suggested that ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ and today that is more relevant than ever before, as we face huge changes outside of our control with far reaching impact on […]
View Post Virtual Coaching, Virtual Sales Training, Virtual WorkshopsBy Judith Hirst, Greenbank founder In the current working-from-home environment, we are finding that many leaders and professionals are finding 1-1 coaching absolutely vital. The technology works well for 1-1 coaching, its the type of development that they can fit into a busy, multi-processing working-at-home environment – and at a time when meaningful conversations with […]
View Post 360 degree feedback & coaching, coaching tips, personal development planningAvoiding and Handling Tricky Sales Objections If our work with sales teams around the world is anything to go by, customers haven’t yet stopped giving you reasons why they don’t want to buy from you…and we are regularly asked for ways to address objections during our sales programmes. Tip 1: Heading objections off at the […]
View Post Leadership, Learning and development, Negotiation, Sales, Sales TrainingNegotiating from a position of strength Participants in our win-win negotiation programmes, often state that their main objective for attending the programme is that they want to feel ‘stronger’ in a negotiation. In this short blog article we aim to provide some quick hints and tips to allow you to walk in to a negotiation […]
View Post Leadership, Learning and development, Negotiation, Sales, Sales TrainingLeading talented people is challenging. Managing Generation Y (‘Millennial’) people – typical those between the ages of 18 and 25 – has many managers frustrated and confused! From discussions with a wide range of leaders who attend Greenbank programmes they often talk about needing a different approach with the latest generation of team members. One […]
View Post Leadership, Leading Millennial PeopleIn our increasingly demanding business climate, one of the Leadership Styles we are seeing more and more of is ‘Pacesetting’ – where busy leaders hope to drive their team’s performance by demonstrating exactly how they want things to be done – and hoping that others will be inspired. We hear seemingly positive phrases such as […]
View Post coaching, DelegationOne of the differences we have noticed in our conversations with sales managers over the last few years, is that there is a real acceptance that the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to selling simply doesn’t work anymore – not unreasonably, customers and prospects have increasing expectations that a salesperson should tailor their pitch to them. This can […]
View Post Communication, Meetings, Presentations, Sales, Sales Training, Selling, Trust, ValueMy people want to learn and be developed! Training budgets are tight – or non-existent! My team need to share more and support each other! We need to share best practice across teams! All of these are things that I frequently hear from managers and HR professionals. So I have good news! We have been […]
View Post Action learning, Fly-on-wall, Making training stick, on-the-job training