As sales teams rapidly reinvent themselves, their skills, activities and the way they sell, the real transformation needed to achieve your goals starts with not just changing, but expanding your thinking. There’s always more than one perception.
Here are eight paradoxes that will widen your peripheral view around how the top sales gurus think around selling, cold calling and prospecting for new business to win more sales in a volatile, uncertain marketplace.
Beliefs precede experience. How you think is what you get. What you focus on grows.
These are some of the mantras I share with my clients when it comes to attracting or creating what they want most in their life, to focus on what they DO want, not what they don’t.
Therefore, the most effective way to evolve, achieve what matters most to you, and become who you want to always start with the way you think, about yourself, life and the experiences throughout your life.
Most people are “either-or” thinkers. That is, it’s either one way/truth or the other. What if you can embrace more than one way of thinking, mindset or belief, simultaneously, even if they’re seemingly opposite or contradictory?
There are many things and processes that are right or wrong, good or bad, and have a right and wrong way to do it, whether it’s around the law, safety, education, parenting, policy or compliance. However, when it comes to coaching, managing and selling, there is often no black or white, right or wrong, good or bad, better or worse.
In fact, two conflicting or opposite believes can co-exist at the same time.
Here are eight of the top paradoxes of prospecting that make prospecting even more challenging, while simultaneously making your prospecting efforts easier and more effective than ever. (Another paradox!)
Once you embrace these paradoxes, you’ll notice how these contradictions will provide you with a more creative, innovative mindset and a new competitive edge. This an expansion around your line of thinking is something that no other marketing piece, feature or benefit of your product or service could achieve. A champion mindset that wins more sales.
The Eight Paradoxes of Prospecting
Let’s face it. We know that the ultimate objective of your prospecting efforts is to sell more, drive revenue, serve your customers deeply, achieve business and career goals, and boost your income.
However, to achieve this, it goes beyond your activity, skill development, and technology. The real transformation in performance and success begins with widening your thinking for the better by expanding your peripheral view around what can be possible when you think outside of the self-imposed limited way of thinking what can or can’t be done.
If you can embrace the dualities of these paradoxes, you now have the opportunity to respond to each prospect in a healthier, more innovative, creative and enjoyable way.
What do you think?
A globally recognized authority on sales and leadership and the pioneer of executive sales coaching and management coach training, Keith Rosen is the CEO of ProfitBuilders, named one of the Best Sales Training and Coaching Company Worldwide. Keith has delivered his programs to hundreds of thousands of salespeople and managers in practically every industry; on five continents and in over 70 countries. Keith is one of the first out of only a handful of coaches who earned the distinguished Master Certified Coach designation credentialed through the International Coach Federation.
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