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Insight Selling: Advanced Consultative Selling

Inspire buyers with insights and new ideas.

The landscape of buying and selling has changed more in recent years than it has in preceding decades. Buyers are more sophisticated and awash with information. At the same time, executives are searching—often in vain—for new ways to innovate, compete, and improve their success.

Insight Selling, our advanced consultative selling program, teaches your team how to harness the power of ideas to inspire buyers, become change agents, and differentiate based on the value they bring to the table.

Top-Performing Sellers are more likely to...

62%
Effectively lead sales conversations
88%
Inspire buyers to reach out for advice
60%
Change buyer thinking about needs

Source: RAIN Group Center for Sales Research, The Top-Performing Seller

Today’s buyers value sellers who bring new ideas and insights, yet most sellers don't have the skills to do this consistently.

Insight Selling teaches your team how to develop insights and inspire buyers to think differently, influence agendas, and make the best decisions. 

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Drive Maximum Value for Buyers

Learn how your team can:

  • Inspire buyers with new ideas
  • Differentiate
  • Deliver value in every interaction

Advanced Consultative Selling Training Modules

With our selection of portable learning modules, we work with you to quickly design custom curricula with the sales skill content your team needs to master advanced consultative selling skills.

module_icon Introduction to Insight Selling
  • Understand the journey from foundational to advanced consultative selling
  • Expand seller thinking about how they can drive maximum value for buyers
  • Inspire sellers to raise their consultative selling game
module_icon Interaction Insight: Driving Buyer Insights and Points of View
  • Challenge buyer points of view vigorously yet respectfully to drive buyer insight
  • Learn to change the conversation and differentiate based on the ideas you share and inspire
  • Impress and persuade executives based on how you lead advanced consultative selling discussions
module_icon Leading a Thorough and Impressive Needs Discovery
  • Know what questions to ask and how to ask them
  • Learn the #1 tip most sellers miss in needs discovery
  • Visually and powerfully position, communicate, and confirm needs with buyers
module_icon Building Rapport
  • Learn and apply the 4 Principles of Rapport (EASE)
  • Practice building rapport in meetings and beyond
  • Learn practical tips for becoming likable and connecting with people
module_icon Making the Impact and ROI Case Powerfully
  • Identify which of the 3 types of impact is most critical for a buyer
  • Know the questions to ask to make a strong impact case
  • Discover tactics for increasing buyer urgency
module_icon The 6 Buyer Personas: Communicating with Different Personality Types
  • Learn how different buyers like to communicate, build relationships, and make decisions
  • Understand and quickly identify the buyer personas of stakeholders in your sale
  • Learn how to adjust your style to communicate with buyers the way they prefer
module_icon Mini-Stories That Sell
  • Connect with buyers through the power of mini-stories
  • Intrigue buyers to ask more based on the stories you tell
  • Learn how to make points that demonstrate the difference you make for buyers
module_icon Inspiring Buyer Action: New Reality and The Buyer Change Blueprint
  • Learn the most powerful framework for driving buyer action, decisions, and change
  • Work with buyers to ensure the value case is most compelling and powerful
  • Communicate your advantages and differentiators most persuasively
module_icon The Power of Trust in Selling
  • Learn the 4 elements of trust
  • Understand the process of developing trust
  • Develop strategies for building trust with key buyers and influencers during the sale and beyond
module_icon Keys to Qualifying the Sale
  • Learn the keys to qualifying a sale
  • Define your pursuit intensity for various opportunities
  • Know when and how to ask buyers about budget, and when not to ask at all
module_icon 11 Keys to Influence and Persuasion in Sales
  • Learn the 11 Principles of Influence in Sales
  • Learn to resonate powerfully, differentiate from the competition, build trust, and drive action
  • Plan to be more influential with buyers
module_icon Mastering the Art of Sales Collaboration
  • Learn the keys to engaging buyers deeply across the sales process by setting up and leading collaborations
  • Understand how collaboration creates psychological ownership and engagement from buyers
  • Practice collaborating in ways that drive ideas, deepen relationships, and create alignment
module_icon Persuasive Sales Presentations: Telling a Convincing Story
  • Learn and apply the 5-step Convincing Story framework for powerful, persuasive presentations
  • Inspire buyers with new ideas and shape their agendas for action
  • Deliver a persuasive and collaborative presentation to drive buyer action and change, and receive feedback in real time
module_icon Value Through the Eyes of the Buyer
  • Deeply understand what value is, and how it affects buyer decision making
  • Articulate the value of what you offer through the eyes of the buyer
  • Apply the Resonate | Differentiate | Substantiate value proposition framework throughout the sales cycle

We offer a full curriculum of modules across the sales cycle from prospecting to consultative selling, virtual selling, winning major sales, account management, and sales management. Learn more about our suite of sales training programs east

Insight Selling: Surprising Research on What Sales Winners Do Differently

This program is built around research featured in Insight Selling by Mike Schultz and John Doerr.

The RAIN Group Center for Sales Research studied 700 B2B purchases made by buyers who represent $3.1 billion in annual purchasing power.

This research reveals the many surprising ways that sellers who win sell radically differently than second-place finishers.

Insight Selling gives sellers a framework for how to collaborate with buyers, inspire new ideas, and drive meaningful change.

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Insight Selling: Surprising Research on What Sales Winners Do Differently

Training Modalities

Onsite Instructor-Led Training

Onsite Instructor-Led Training

Virtual Sales Training

Virtual Instructor-Led Training

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Hybrid Training

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Self-Study+

Experience Success Like Our Clients

HORNE sees doubled digit growth in size of engagements.

When HORNE LLP wanted to transform the sales conversation from audit and tax discussions to conversations centered around helping their buyers solve business problems, they turned to RAIN Group.

Through teaching their team advanced consultative selling skills HORNE has increased collaboration with their buyers. They’re bringing trends and new perspectives through storytelling and expanding the scope of work by adding more value to their conversations.

As a result, they’ve seen double-digit growing in the size of engagements.

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Select Clients

Horne
Agilysys
cStor
Optus

Transform Your Team with Insight Selling Training

Learn how RAIN Group’s transformational approach to training and behavior change can help develop the advanced consultative selling skills of your team.