Webinar: Telephone Sales Skills

Telephone skills are essential for any sales or client facing professional. This session will provide you with some of the key skills you need to ‘sell’ and retain business using the telephone.

Objectives:

• Understand the important skills for conducting sales conversations over the telephone
• Understand how we interpret communication on a F2F basis and how we need to adjust for the telephone

Content and Learning:

• Mehrabian’s Law – how we interpret communication
• Creating the ‘Visual’
• Improving how we sound
• Telephone sales questioning skills
• Active listening on the telephone
• Rapport building on the telephone
• Objection handling
• Closing

The Speaker:

Nick offers a unique combination of skills in the UK insurance training sector – an industry sales specialist and a professional coach and trainer.

Nick is an Economics graduate with over 25 years corporate insurance broking experience

He was a highly successful sales producer in the UK broking market before progressing into regional and then national sales leadership roles. As National Development Director at HSBC, Nick was one of only 40 people from a global workforce of 265,000 selected as part of the STARS programme to recognise exceptional performance. He is a highly trained consultative sales specialist, and his experience includes a secondment with a major management consultant to design a best practice sales process.

In the mid-2000s, Nick developed a chronic health condition; his journey to recovery fostered a new range of interests, and a passion for health, and performance. He studied widely, qualifying as a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), obtaining a Diploma in Life Coaching, before going on to study Corporate/Business Coaching with The Coaching Academy. Nick is also a qualified Holistic Lifestyle Coach and Advanced Exercise Coach.

In the last two years Nick has worked in a self-employed capacity in training, coaching, and consulting. He works with a specialist adviser in Insurance sector M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions), and through Nick Thomas & Associates.