Mastering Sales Call planning skill unlocks more sales potential more quickly than any other sales skill. With this Sales Call Plan, the entire selling process gains momentum and sell cycles are dramatically shorter. Salespeople win more business – while decreasing sales cycle time. This single Action Selling principle will provide an immediate boost in performance! Take our Free Benchmark Sales Skills Assessment to determine if you need sales skill training that helps you master the skill of developing a great Sales Call Plan.

Since 1990 our research has tracked over 400,000 salespeople from a wide variety of industries and has identified five sales skills that are critical for maximizing sales performance. More increase sales and top sales performance have been achieved by knowing how and when to use these Five Critical Sales Skills than any other skills. Research shows that when salespeople certify on these Five Critical Sales Skills, sales performance increases at twice the rate of others. Take the Action Selling Free Benchmark Sales Skills Assessment to get a detailed recommendation on where you stand with the 5 Critical Selling Skills and what will happen if your sales force becomes Certified.

Through our Sales Training research on over 350,000 trained salespeople, we have learned that there are Five Sales Skills that need to be a central part of any successful sales training program. They must be learned and mastered before sales professionals can maximize their selling potential. These five Critical Sales Skills include …

The following Sales Training Courses and Certification Programs can be customized and integrated easily within your own industry and sales application. All packages are available as Student, Coach and/or Instructor Materials. We focus on the key Sales Skills that have the greatest impact on increasing sales productivity. Prior to participating in these courses, we encourage each student to take our Free Sales Skills Assessment. This skills assessment measures current ability in using these selling skills and provides a basis for measuring growth and training ROI.

The Healthcare Industry started with selling skills that were generally above the Universe. It appeared that Healthcare salespeople were receiving some level of sales skills training prior to this training initiative. Final Knowledge and Application scores were on a par with the Universe. Since the Healthcare Industry started with higher pre-sales training scores, their gains were somewhat less than the Universe.

Welcome to Action Selling’s Plan to Win series! Your go to resource for real-world solutions to real-world sales challenges. This week we’re continuing our conversation on differentiation – how to plan your sales call so you consistently moving the sales process forward.

The Sales Board, is one of the top 20 sales skill development companies in the world. Using validated assessments, we’ve tested, trained and certified over 400,000 sales people from over 3500 companies. During the past 25 years, we have the largest database of the selling skills of salespeople and a recent analysis of this data is nothing short of astounding.

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Whether she presented me to Nancy too soon or not, I’m certainly glad that Carrie consulted me as soon as she recognized the potential in the Amstand account. Before we institutionalized Action Selling we expected our reps to act single-handedly: “Go out there and make it rain business.” A few of them did just that. But now that Action Selling has given us a common sales language—and everyone speaks it—the whole company is involved in the sales process. Selling has become a team sport at GoTeam. We talk to each other about deals. We discuss strategy. We test ideas. Everyone has a common vision about how we’ll get the business.