Empathy for Sales Professionals
48mIntermediate2020-03-16
Authors

Sophie Wade
Workforce Innovation Specialist and Founder of Flexcel Network
Course details
Empathy is a key skill for creating deeper connections and relationships—the building blocks of sales. With empathy, salespeople can achieve a deeper understanding of what prospects are going through and connect better with existing customers. In this course, workforce innovation specialist Sophie Wade quantifies the effect of empathy on sales and shows sales leaders how to incorporate empathy into the management and training of sales teams. Learn how to use empathy to distribute responsibility and improve team performance, and help your reps deepen customer relationships and increase sales. Sophie also shows how to improve empathy on a division-wide level by creating conditions that help an open-minded, empathetic organization thrive.
Skills covered
Emotional IntelligenceSales SkillsSalesWell-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Empathy in action
1. Why Empathy Is So Critical
- 02 - Understanding why empathy matters
- 03 - Sales impact from using empathy
- 04 - Discovering how empathy works
2. Managing Your Sales Team with Empathy
- 05 - Leading with empathy
- 06 - Improving performance with empathy
- 07 - Distributing team responsibility
- 08 - Providing team empathy training
3. Empathy Training for Your Sales Team
- 09 - Increasing sales using empathy
- 10 - Adopting key empathy habits
- 11 - Deepening customer relationships
- 12 - Promoting sales team results
4. Creating the Conditions for Sales Division Success
- 13 - Nurturing empathetic relationships
- 14 - Bridging differences with empathy
- 15 - Encouraging open-mindedness
- 16 - Avoiding empathy blockers
- 17 - Establishing empathetic sales habits
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