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Sales Development Series

Accelerate sales growth with a learning journey:

  • Start with an evaluation of your current reality
  • Launch with high-impact sales essential training with Series 100   – Evolve
  • Accelerate your success by elevating your execution  with Series 200 - Elevate
  • Continuously improve with accountability and coaching with Series 300 – Excel

Sales Development Series is ideal as a 3-year learning system and certification.

But you choose your own schedule and cadence. We recommend beginning with Series 100!

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Advance Your Career in Sales

What do Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway, Anne Mulcahy of Xerox and Cisco’s Chuck Robbins have in common? They are all Fortune 500 CEOs who started out in sales. Sales is the most sought-after capability in the global economy, and that need will never expire. Why? Because nothing happens in business until something gets sold.

The Sandler Sales Development Series is a one-of-a-kind program learning program.

Over the course of seven months, you will learn the innovative and proven sales process from scratch, including techniques to improve both conversions and customer relationships.

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High-Level Program Takeaways

Build your sales knowledge, skill, and discipline as a salesperson and create a roadmap to fast track your sales career and personal success now and in future roles.

Build a personal Sales Toolkit to help you build trust, qualify fast, ask the right questions, and close the deal, giving you the confidence to show up and stand out in every room, every Zoom.

Develop a powerful personal brand that is magnetic and unstoppable and produces your signature selling style.

Develop a powerful personal brand that is magnetic and unstoppable and produces your signature selling style.

Who Is This Program For?

The Sales Development Series from Sandler is for those who want to become exceptional salespeople and build on or formalize their sales expertise. The program will not only help you develop a deeper understanding of sales but will also help you develop customer-focused insights that are designed to drive impact. This program is ideal for the following categories of professionals:

Sales and Business Development Professionals looking to boost their sales career and gain better growth trajectories.

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Entrepreneurs in small ventures, looking to develop a strong sales engine and scale revenue.

Why Choose This Program?

GAIN ACCESS

to a 50-Tool Personal Sales Toolkit that will help you create your unique selling style.

INTERACT

with world-renowned thought leaders, CEOs, and sales experts.

UNLOCK

networking opportunities with global peers, industry experts, and inspirational salespeople.

Program Modules

This program is organized into 11 modules.

Section 1: The Success Triangle

In a fast-paced sales environment, it feels like there’s never enough time to invest in your professional development. This session is an opportunity to pause, reflect on your career, and map out your future trajectory.

In this course, learn how to conduct an honest self-assessment to root out destructive thought patterns and to model behaviors and techniques that will help you achieve your goals. By determining your roadmap to success, you can establish loftier goals and close more profitable deals.

Through eLearning simulation, hands-on activities, and peer-to-peer learning, you can be the author of your own success story.

 

Section 2: The Buyer Seller Dynamic

The buyer’s journey is rapidly transforming into one that is digital and increasingly independent. Armed with information, the educated buyer seeks out sales consultants that enable and empower them to make their buying decisions.

This session introduces the Sandler philosophy for the modern sales professional. We believe sales professionals should be known as trusted advisors who are focused on the buyer’s interests and solution-orientated professionals who craft personalized solutions.

In this session, you’ll be introduced to a sales methodology that works with any sales process to drive effective outcomes. You’ll learn to protect your time by qualifying strategically, to build trust by empathizing with your buyer, and to eliminate inefficiencies and replicate what works.

Through hands-on activities and peer-to-peer learning, you will gain tools to help you succeed in the modern sales landscape.

 

Section 3: Essential Communication Skills

Imagine a world where you could create instant rapport with prospects without resorting to small talk about the weather or their favorite sports team. This no-fluff session can get you there. It focuses on the essentials for communicating effectively and building mutual trust with buyers.

In this course, you’ll learn how to: establish equal stature with buyers to nurture collaborative—not transactional—relationships; ask questions that resonate and advance the relationship; and develop the confidence to assert your right to forthright communication.

Through this course, which includes eLearning simulation, hands-on activities, and peer-to-peer learning, you can learn to build rapport with anyone.

 

Section 4: Initiating Buyer Focused Conversations

If the idea of cold-calling prospects makes you sweat, you’re far from alone. The pressure to make a good first impression with a potential client is enough to make anyone nervous. But it doesn’t have to be that way. 

In this course, learn about the psychology of call reluctance and how to turn down the pressure with authentic curiosity. Craft a compelling 30-second commercial that’ll leave your prospects hanging on every word. By creating a no-pressure environment, you can approach prospective conversations with confidence. 

Through eLearning simulation, hands-on activities, and peer-to-peer learning, you can initiate effective conversations with anyone.

 

Section 5: Creating Mutual Agreement

Most people have experienced meetings that go off point, get derailed, or are overall ineffective. An Up-Front Contract is a tool that helps sales professionals set expectations up front and establish control over their meetings.

In this course, you’ll learn about the four components of an effective up-front contract and when and how to use one in your sales interactions. You’ll explore establishing equal business stature with your buyers by getting permission to ask questions and giving them permission to say no. You’ll practice and refine your up-front contract with peers so that it becomes intuitive to use with your buyers.

Through eLearning simulation, hands-on activities, and peer-to-peer learning, you can create mutual agreement and drive effective outcomes in your sales meetings.

 

Section 6: Discovering Buyer’s Motivation

Loss aversion is a powerful motivator. Customers’ buying decisions are driven by an instinct to avoid loss, solve problems, and alleviate pain. By identifying what hurts, you appeal to your buyer’s intrinsic motivation to change—and to invest in your solution.

In this course, you will learn the four buying emotions underlying your customers’ buying behavior. You’ll learn how to uncover the three levels of pain to empathize with the personal impacts of pain and activate emotional drivers that motivate purchasing decisions. You’ll also learn how to use the Pain Funnel technique to investigate pain indicators and qualify buyers before investing time in the opportunity.

Through eLearning simulation, hands-on activities, and peer-to-peer learning, you can learn to have pain conversations that qualify buyers and motivate them to alleviate their pain.

 

Section 7: Better Understanding Through Asking Questions

From loaded questions to disguised objections, buyers’ questions can feel risky to answer. Asking you to share information without reciprocation is at best unpaid consulting from you, at worst a genuine bad-faith practice on your buyer’s part.

In this course, you’ll learn strategies for asking questions that uncover your buyer’s true intentions and help you qualify them for further development. You’ll discover how to maintain momentum throughout the sales interaction while navigating stalls and objections with tact. Instead of leading with your own expertise, you’ll learn how to use curiosity to cultivate trust.

Through eLearning simulation, hands-on activities, and peer-to-peer learning, you can learn to protect yourself from unpaid consulting—and better serve your buyer.

Section 8: Understanding Investment Parameters

Nothing provokes anxiety in a salesperson like talking budget. What if the buyer doesn’t have a budget? What if their budget is too low? What if they don’t want to talk about it? But budget conversations don’t have to be uncomfortable.

In this course, learn why you don’t have to live and die on the buyer’s budget. Discover how to discuss money confidently by developing awareness of your internalized money scripts. Think beyond the budget to address all investment parameters on which you need to qualify your buyers, setting them up to implement your solution successfully. You’ll also practice techniques for eliciting legitimate budget estimates from buyers, regardless of whether a budget has been predetermined.

Through eLearning simulation, hands-on activities, and peer-to-peer learning, you can learn to discuss budget proactively with your buyers so you won’t be cornered into negotiating on price.

 

Section 9: Identifying the Decision-Making Process

With an increasing number of decision-makers involved in every sale, buyers’ decision-making processes are growing increasingly complex. It has never been more difficult—or more important—for a salesperson to gain access to key decision-makers and understand how their buyers make decisions. 

In this course, you’ll learn the four pivotal decision-maker roles and how to gain access to the people qualified to make decisions in the sale. Learn how to partner with champions and win over blockers to move deals forward. Use the investigative approach to uncover your buyer’s decision-making team, timeline, and process. By increasing transparency about your buyer’s process, you can prevent deals from stalling and align your approach to their buying journey. 

Through eLearning simulation, hands-on activities, and peer-to-peer learning, you can learn to discover the information you need to close the sale.

 

Section 10: Communicating the Solution and Closing the Sale

Marathon winners aren’t determined on race day alone. The fate of a marathon runner is determined by months of training and thousands of miles logged well before race day. In sales, whether a deal closes is decided by the many qualifying events that occur well before closing. Closing the deal is the end game in sales, but your presentation doesn’t have to feel like a high-stakes event that makes or breaks it.

In this course, you’ll learn a three-step strategy for presenting your solution that takes the pressure off and gets you closer to a close. You’ll learn how to handle pressure to demonstrate your solution before you’ve vetted your prospects. You’ll use the thermometer technique to conduct a temperature check on your potential to close. You can even leverage the moment you’ve landed the deal to secure referrals and future business.

Through eLearning simulation, hands-on activities, and peer-to-peer learning, you can learn to translate an effective sales qualification process into a low-stakes close.

 

Section 11: Bonus: Breaking through Your Comfort Zone

There is a vital connection between self-esteem and role performance. In this course, you will learn how your level of self-esteem creates a comfort zone of performance in your various roles. You will also learn how to break through your comfort zone and improve your performance. 

One of the most important lessons in this program is learning to separate one’s “identity” from one’s “role.” 

In this course, you will understand how your identity level plays a part in your role performance and learn to replace self-limiting beliefs to improve your mindset and accelerate your growth journey.

 

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Enjoy complimentary access to tons of resources inside Sandler Training.

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Book your free 1:1 Discovery Call today for personal roadmap and renewed clarity around your goals, and a fresh perspective on the future of your sales career.

 

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FAQs

The Program

How do I know whether this program is right for me?
The Sales Development Series offers ongoing professional development for anyone in a sales-oriented role. By exploring the Sandler Selling System® from understanding the essentials to elevating your craft and eventually excelling at selling.

FAQ

What are the requirements to earn a certificate?
This part of the program is based upon attending the live programs or listening to the recordings and completing activities on-line. The final stage includes an online exam.

Will I be guaranteed a job upon completion of the program?
The primary objective of this program is to give you tools and skills to excel in the selling profession.  While eligible participants may request and receive career coaching and support and may receive introductions to our hiring partners, job placement is not guaranteed.

The Learning Experience

How much time will I be expected to devote to this program?

Each month you will attend 3 on-line sessions, 90-minutes in length.

Each session will provide some homework following the training and

Specific exercises for practicing learning in the real world.

 

How will I spend my time in this program?

You will divide your learning time between participating in the weekly webinars and viewing video segments, contributing to class discussions, completing assignments, projects, and knowledge checks, and viewing optional podcasts and reading assigned white papers.



How is the program administered? Can the program be accessed any time?

The program is accessed through the custom learning portal and Zoom webinars. This portal will give you access to all program-related content such as video lectures, assignments, and discussions. Individual coaching is available on-demand, by appointment.

A video recording of the weekly sessions is accessible weekly throughout the program. In the event you miss a live session, you may watch and participate via our You Tube channel.



Do I need to attend live sessions every week?

Participation in live sessions and discussion is highly encouraged.



How do I interact with other program participants?

You can communicate with program participants by sharing email addresses and other contact information privately via the Zoom chat feature.



What type of certificate will I receive?

Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a smart digital certificate. The smart digital certificate can be shared with friends, family, schools, or potential employers. You can use it on your cover letter, résumé, and/or display it on your LinkedIn profile.

The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the program, once grading is complete.



Can I get a hard copy of the certificate?

No, only verified digital certificates will be issued upon successful completion. This allows you to share your credentials on social platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

 

Have questions or other inquiries? Reach out to me at steve.cashdollar@sandler.com