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Sales Pipeline Radio

Business:Marketing

Stop selling & start leading - dialogic vs. diagnostic

2016-10-11

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Sales and sales training have been our guest, Deb Calvert's, passion since she was a child earning money for extra weeks at summer camp. You need to catch the beginning of this show to hear how she was originally motivated to get into sales.

She talked about 8 reasons we'd ever ask a question are summarized in DISCOVER (this is an acronym). Most sales people only ask questions for 3-4 reasons. If you open it up to all 8, you open yourself up to be of real value in the conversation and prospects will share the same with you.

Let's start within the first five seconds of meeting someone to make you more elegant and effective at advancing sales.Shoot her an email and she'll send you this list of questions. deb.calvert@peoplefirstps.com

Her site has a lot of free tools to getting prospects to the point of curiosity fast to learn more about what you are offering. Visit PeopleFirstPS.com

She has a great book: DISCOVER Questions(tm) Get You Connected – LISTENER SPECIAL! BOOKMARK this page. It is continuously updated. Some of what she and Matt are talking about the survey that asks you "When were you at your personal best?" This goes through March. This is how she gathers valuable information.

A bit about Deb Calvert:

Deb Calvert, “DISCOVER Questions® Get You Connected” author, Top 50 Sales Influencer, UC-Berkeley instructor. Deb leads the Stop Selling & Start Leading movement and offers sales training, coaching and leadership development programs. Deb is certified as an executive and sales coach and is a Certified Master of The Leadership Challenge®.

Building Organizational Strength by Putting People First. We focus on the people parts of business, including:

- Coaching for Executives, Managers & Sales Teams

- Leadership Development for Leaders at Every Level

- Training for Managers and Sales Professionals

- Consulting on Team Effectiveness, Sales Productivity, Sales Selection

- Keynote addresses on DISCOVER Questions®, sales productivity, leadership connectivity

Specialties:

- MBTI Certified Practitioner

- Certified Executive Coach, the CEC (ICF)

- Full curriculum for sales team training, customized to your industry & market

- Author of the DISCOVER Questions® book series and questioning model