Brief: How a Sales Professional Becomes the Coach of the Buying Process

What’s Inside

Buying today is complex, and customers need more than a solution — they need a coach.

Customers need someone who can help them surface their underlying challenges, build confidence in the relationship, and understand implementation.

In the brief, How a Sales Professional Becomes the Coach of the Buying Process, we explore the skills of a sales professional who can understand the customer’s perspective in what has become an increasingly taxing and emotional process.

We show how sales professionals can: 

• Address the full scope of the customer’s challenges
• Right-size the customer’s expectations by developing a long-term perspective
• Foster open communication that prioritizes collaboration