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Professional Services Professional: Commercial Rainmaker Training
Course 3822
- Duration: 3 days
- Labs: Yes
- Language: English
- Level: Foundation
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Achieve your Professional Services Rainmaker Foundation Certification in this training course by gaining the skills and knowledge you need to keep your customers happy and help your business grow. As a rainmaker, you help craft better solutions for customers, research and plan customer meetings and conversations, and translate it all into a clear scope or bid for the advancement of your organization.
- The following books are provided for pre-course reading: Shipley Proposal Guide, Shipley CAPTURE Guide, and Insight Selling: Surprising Research on What Sales Winners Do Differently
Professional Services Professional: Commercial Rainmaker Training Delivery Methods
- After-course instructor coaching benefit
- Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
Professional Services Professional: Commercial Rainmaker Training Course Benefits
- Prepare for and pass the PS Professional Rainmaker certification exam
- Accurately assess the customer needs and align them with current and future business offerings
- Document a very high-quality and concise scope of work
- Use the “PATHS to Action” framework for meeting effectiveness
Commercial Rainmaker Training Outline
Making connections with people
- Creating intimacy by finding shared interests and experiences
- Developing integrity by thinking about buyer success first
- Demonstrating competence through knowledge
Connecting the dots
- Identifying the buyer’s aspirations (goals) and afflictions (pains)
- Quantifying and painting the “so what” picture, establishing how important it is to buy from you
- Using disruptive questions to challenge the buyer’s ideas, assumptions, strategies, and agenda for action
Creating RAIN
- Using advocacy and inquiry to clarify and demonstrate your understanding of the buyer’s pains and goals
- Painting a picture of possible new realities illuminating what they will get when they work with you
- Using both interaction and opportunity to close the gap between the buyer’s pains/goals and your products/services
Buyer collaboration
- Preparing the buyer to collaborate before the meeting
- Gaining the buyer’s psychological ownership and commitment
- Defining the parameters and allowing buyer to shape it
Power of a convincing story
- Clarifying what you want the buyer to learn, feel and do differently
- Combining a focus on ROI – the potential gain – with fear of loss to help the buyer see the negative impact of inaction
- Apply the key components of a convincing story where the buyer is the hero
Facilitating collaborative group discussions
- Using broad, open-ended questions to elicit assumptions from the group
- Probing deeper to separate the facts and truths from the gut feelings, corporate myths, and personal prejudices
- Encouraging the buyer to collaboratively examine possible actions
Business development processes and milestones
- Planning and scheduling capture activities and decisions
- Identifying and assigning the best people to the roles in your capture and proposal team(s)
- Being prepared to end the pursuit if decision–making information is vague, cannot be obtained, or the team lacks the commitment to win
Creating your value proposition
- Getting on the buyer’s 'to do' list
- Differentiating by providing overall distinction and difficulty of substitution
- Substantiate to gain buyer’s trust in your ability to deliver
Developing the persuasive proposal
- Designing the document for maximum impact
- How to disclose your price early in the executive summary and quantify your added-value
- Ensuring compliance and responsiveness in your proposal
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