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Smart Buyer: sales training

by Personnel Today 18 Feb 2010
by Personnel Today 18 Feb 2010

Welcome to the Smart Buyer guide on sales training, providing the latest top tips, case studies and expert guidance.

Sales training, especially for beginners, starts with the premise that anyone with the right potential, attitude and intellect can sell if they are given appropriate training, mentoring and support.

Often sales training is underpinned by a methodology, a process or even a system – and you will need to get to grips with that to understand what the training is trying to achieve. It is important to choose sales training that addresses the issues specific to your organisation and the needs of each person individually. Our guide helps you…

Sales training

Sales training overview
What questions should you ask your sales managers before planning training?

Types of sales training
We advise on skills to match the activities that matter to sales teams in the markets in which they operate.

Supplier selection
Ten top tips for initial supplier selection.

The cost
We discuss what you should expect to be paying for your training.

Ensuring training success
Those responsible for sales training need to set out evaluation measures and criteria and follow-up action – we offer 10 tips for training success.

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TRAINING

  • Training overview
  • Four step guide to planning your training, learning and development
  • Supplier selection
  • Payment, ownership and major UK suppliers
  • How to get staff buy-in for training
  • How to tell if training was effective and well delivered
  • Face-to-face or e-learning?
  • Getting performance management to work for you (VIDEO)
  • Managing people’s performance – fact or fiction?
  • Case study: Working Sm@rt at Pepsi QTG 

Find out more about the general Training Smart Buyer guide

E-LEARNING

  • E-learning overview
  • Reasons to implement e-learning
  • Supplier selection
  • Training content
  • Mobile training
  • Case study: Online training creation for professional bodies
  • A new perspective on e-learning: online learning that works 

 





 

Find out more about the E-Learning Smart Buyer guide

Looking for training in a different specific area? You may be interested in one of these training topics:

LEADERSHIP TRAINING

  • Overview
  • Supplier selection
  • Selecting delegates
  • Course content

 







Find out more about the Leadership Training Smart Buyer guide

MANAGEMENT TRAINING

  • Overview
  • Supplier selection
  • The course – delegates and content
  • The cost
  • A question of evidence: behaviour-based interviews (VIDEO)
  • Making appraisals work

Find out more about the Management Training Smart Buyer guide

IT TRAINING

  • Overview
  • Supplier selection
  • Potential e-learning issues
  • John Lewis case study
  • The cost




 

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