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Improving Sales by Improving Yourself
Hi, my name is Inga Chamberlain and I am a salesperson.
Ever feel like you’re confessing to a terrible character flaw when you say what it is you do for a living? Has anyone but me noticed that “sales” has become a dirty word?
I still remember in the 80’s when I worked as an executive recruiter. During sales cold phone calls, I was routinely hung up on. Obviously this is demoralizing to someone in sales. I got really sick of feeling badly and like I was bothering people by calling them. I realized my self esteem was part of the problem and I had limiting beliefs about myself and salespeople in general. This is how I found NLP. I decided to change myself instead of changing careers and it worked! I not only continued in sales but started my own recruiting firm and for 10 years happily sold my service to a national market.
So how did NLP help me to change? First I worked on developing the self confidence that could stand up to those demoralizing phone calls. During this time I also worked on increasing my skill set to have better sales techniques . I used NLP to help me build rapport on the phone and close more effectively. But the main changes came from changing me. How I saw myself and my place in the world. I also used NLP and hypnosis to overcome a strong fear of public speaking so that I could make presentations more effectively. I then proceeded to change anything else that was holding me back and in the end also got rid of a fear of heights some general Anxiety and some left over trauma from childhood.
When I decided to leave the executive search industry to become a trainer , coach, speaker and hypnotherapist the transition was easy. I had already done all the ground work necessary to be successful in any field I might choose because I had increased my emotional intelligence or EQ as Daniel Goleman calls it. I had gotten rid of the things that hold most people back.
In my private practice in Atlanta , Georgia I work with many salespeople who want to improve their sales. We always start by using NLP and hypnosis to remove negative conditioning, beliefs and behaviors. Then we boost confidence levels and condition in new positive habits and behaviors. One of the most common problems with low performing salespeople is that they don’t like being in sales(or their perception of sales). By changing the way they see their career and themselves a salesperson can dramatically improve productivity and income. But even more important, they will feel good about themselves and their choice of career.
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How to Build a Dynamite Sales Team
Training a Dynamite Sales Team!
Salespeople are my favorite clients. Not only are they generally personable and empathetic, but the best ones are also constantly working to improve themselves. What other career gives you the ability to make an income directly commensurate to your skills and abilities?? As with any other aspect of business or life, what goes up will generally come down. So it is in the art of selling.
In order to train a sales pro or team there are several key psychological aspects to consider. The very personality traits that make a great sales person are the same ones that can bring them done and put them into a major slump.
It is vitally important for the sales professional to have a strong level of EQ or Emotional Intelligence. As Daniel Goleman points out in his book “Emotional Intelligence” the EQ is usually more important than IQ when determining how successful someone will be in life and business.
EQ training is helpful in 3 ways.
1. Becoming conscious of negative emotional states.
2. Getting control over unhelpful emotions and increasing emotional resilience.
3. Recognizing others’ emotional states in order to improve communication and build relationships.
A positive mental attitude for the sales professional can make all the difference between average performance and someone who breaks all the records. The best and fastest way to change your emotional intelligence is by connecting to the subconscious. The subconscious mind is the seat of the emotions and that’s where great selling comes from, but its’ also where fear’s reside. Fears of failure, rejection and the inability to present to a group are crippling to the sales person, The best sales people are the ones who are working on themselves through focused visualization, positive goal setting and finding ways to alleviate fears/emotional blocks and build unstoppable self confidence.
A sales training that only includes sales techniques falls well below the mark. By including EQ training and self improvement techniques you can build not only a dynamite sales team but a happy, well adjusted peak performing sales person as well.
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