Cold Calling Fundamentals
Boulden Management Consultants
One-Day Course
This programme provides practical help to enable Account Executives and Telesales Professionals to generate new sales (or schedule appointments) by making unsolicited calls (i.e. by Cold Calling prospective customers).
The training is based on applying Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques to the cold calling process, and during the course discoveries will be made as to how to consistently achieve a rapport on the phone and to gain the decision maker’s interest and attention. The course will give those attending a competitive edge in making sales (or booking appointments) through using the phone.
By attending this highly interactive one-day course you will:
People with some experience of telephone work who wish to further develop their skills.
Appreciating the key success factors involved when selling on the phone.
In telesales work the ‘campaign mindset’ is important. A campaign is about action that is intended to achieve a particular objective. So, in undertaking new business calling it is helpful to break down our efforts into a number of distinct chunks or campaigns. This part of the course focuses on how to develop, implement and control a plan of action for a specific prospecting campaign using four key documents; (i) Campaign Scope Document, (ii) Call Schedule, (iii) Daily Call Logs, and (iv) Assessment of Results.
One of the keys to being an effective telesales person is to have a strong, flexible voice. A voice that all the prospects will want to engage with because it has enough variation in tone and tempo to be interesting to listen to. To develop such a voice, it is necessary to practise exercises that are designed to enhance vocal power.
Working on the telephone takes energy and commitment, so an important step before picking up the phone is to mentally adopt a resolute, purposeful frame of mind. Approaching a prospect in a half-hearted manner seldom gives good results, so it is helpful to decide to have a strong intent to ‘do the job well.’ One way of doing this is to use a technique called ‘resource anchoring.’
Building a sense of trust and partnership with prospective clients is a vital element in successful cold calling. Here we cover three key skills for gaining a psychological ‘connection’ with other people when talking on the phone.
Effective telesales professionals follow a four-stage process…
Gatekeepers are (i) receptionists and (ii) PA’s, and their goal is to limit or screen the access that people have to the decision makers, plus (iii) voice mail, which obviously means that you are not in direct conversation with the target person.
All our programmes are run on an in-house basis and (where appropriate) we conduct interviews and facilitate focus groups to gather information with which to write bespoke case studies that precisely reflect the culture and work environment of the participants.
Feedback is based upon peer review using a BMC assessment checklist. Completing the BMC assessment checklists is not only valuable to the people involved in a given case study, it also helps those completing them to gain an in-depth understanding of the building blocks that make up an excellent cold call.
There is an option of following the workshop with a three month long Action Learning project to link the lessons from the training back into the workplace. If this option is selected there is a closure workshop at the end of the project phase where delegates present how they have applied the techniques learned on the course into their daily work routines.
All of our workshops can be delivered as Remote Training via e-learning modules plus Zoom based virtual workshops. Please see our Virtual Training page for more information.
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