CQ® Sales: Use Cultural Intelligence to Reach New Markets

• Format Virtual
• Duration 4 hours
• Price $475

The world of selling has changed drastically over the past decade. Not only has social media completely revolutionized the sales process, but globalization has had a dramatic effect on how much organizational and individual cultural values play a role in a seller’s ability to penetrate a new company, uncover new sales opportunities, and close a deal. In many instances, the process has become far more complex, thereby contributing to significantly longer sales cycles, smaller deal sizes, and decreased revenue.

CQ® Sales: Use Cultural Intelligence to Reach New Markets is an interactive workshop that teaches sales professionals how to leverage the cultural values of an organization, team, or decision-maker to open more sales opportunities, shorten sale cycles, and close more deals.

Using the Cultural Intelligence (CQ) model, CQ Sales draws upon research-based findings to provide strategies for selling to companies of various organizational cultures and individuals, groups, and business units of diverse cultural backgrounds. Participants leave with a personalized action plan for selling into a diversity of markets.

The workshop can be delivered virtually or in-person.

INTERACTIVE AND REAL-LIFE PRACTICE

This workshop is highly experiential and includes several interactive activities to get sales professionals to apply cultural intelligence, or CQ, to the sales process. Participants practice applying cultural value differences and cultural intelligence to the fundamentals of sales and specifically to four key steps in selling: Preparation, Discovery, Pitching, and Closing.

One of the interactive aspects of this workshop that sets it apart from other programs is the CQ Sales Simulation. Throughout the workshop, participants work to understand and effectively sell to one of three fictitious organizations complete with websites, job listings, and cultural values profiles. By the end of the workshop, participants are able to take the skills they gained selling to these fictitious organizations and apply them to real-life prospects to whom they are hoping to sell.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand CQ and how it can benefit a sales professional
• Develop an understanding of 10 cultural values and how to leverage them to conduct better sales discovery, pitching and negotiating
• Recognize the cultural values that are most relevant to the sales process
• Construct a strategy for selling to individuals, teams and business units with certain combinations of cultural values

YOU WILL RECEIVE

• Access to CQ Starter and MyCV e-learning courses
• CQ Your Sales Guide (40-page guide you can reference anytime)
• Personal Cultural Values Profile
• Case Studies
• CQ Sales Simulation Materials
• Real-time feedback on your ability to sell into new markets
• Certificate of Completion that can be shared and added to your social media accounts
• Digital Badge to validate your accomplishments. Showcase your digital badge on your email, resume, and social media accounts!