Final Train The Trainer Guide (Advanced Selling)
Final Train The Trainer Guide (Advanced Selling)
Final Train The Trainer Guide (Advanced Selling)
Trainers Guide
MR Training
Mundipharma Selling Excellence: Advanced Selling
Background
In today’s tough economic climate, winning and keeping customers takes the best
possible skillset. Organisations who can communicate in a persuasive and customer
friendly way through their sales force, will always have the advantage in a
competitive market.
As products become more alike, the real competitive edge lies in the skill of the MR
in developing deeper relationships and customer understanding to sell more
effectively.
Advanced Selling skills builds on Foundation Selling skills and the Mundipharma
Selling Model, introducing the MR to a more advanced level of customer
communication, offering the best opportunity to increase sales, build partnerships
and grow market share.
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Learning objectives
New sales techniques and guiding principles to support you in increasing your
sales
How to ‘get closer’ to your customer and make every moment of every call
add value to your customer and business to Mundipharma
Target audience
Medical Representatives
Training duration
2 Days
Resource Required
Trainer Considerations
As the trainer for this programme it is your responsibility to manage time, engage the
group and bring to life some of the case studies and examples with your personal
experiences.
As you know every group will be different and you will have to use your skills as a
trainer to maximise the group input and outputs to ensure the group achieves the
learning objectives listed above.
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This training programme has been developed to ensure all different styles of learning
are considered during the training. As such the training involves, interaction, group
participation, individual exercises, reflection time and lots of practice and
discussions.
To help you as the trainer run an impactful training session there is a colour-coded
system in the slide notes to identify key exercises, workbook activities and questions
you may want to ask to stimulate the delegates thinking and session input.
RED = Exercises
Is visible in the bottom right hand corner of a slide to indicate that the slide contains
an exercise for the group.
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Training Agenda
Listed below are the sessions for Advanced Selling. It will be your responsibility as
the trainer for this workshop to develop your own programme in line with your timings
and objectives. It is appreciated that each one of your training groups may move at a
different pace through the content and also that different groups will want to discuss
training topics in differing depths. Therefore, flexibility may need to be given to some
of the session timings.
As a result you will have to use your skill as a trainer to guide the group to engage
and understand all the training information to ensure the learning objectives for each
training session are achieved.
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Advanced Selling
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Slide 1
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>Welcome
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Slide 4
ASK: What is this? And then name the different sections of the model?
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Slide 5
ASK: Starting in Pre-Call Planning what are the behaviours that are listed
under each model section. The behaviours that define excellence in every call
for a Mundipharma MR.
>If required draw a model on a flip chart and add the behaviours as the group shout
them out.
>Check to see how many the group have got right by showing the following slide.
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Slide 6
>Review the model and highlight any areas which were not clearly identified by the
group, focusing in on the behaviours in that section of the model.
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Slide 7
>Remind the group about in call excellence and why Mundipharma has a regional
selling model with identified behaviours, read slide.
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Slide 8
>Recognise there will be a depth of selling experience in the room at the Advanced
Selling workshop is about building on these knowledge and skills.
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Slide 9
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>Header slide
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Slide 11
>The objective is to build a profile of the other delegates on the training programme,
based on the 5 key areas listed on the slide.
>Divide the group in pairs and ask each pair to interview each other using the
questions on the slide.
>The pairs then introduce their partner to the group. Rotate until all delegates have
introduced each other.
Timing
6 minutes to interview each other (3 min each) and 10 min for the total group to
feedback (approx. 1 min/person).
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Slide 12
>These will be very valuable training days where learning and practising together will
develop your selling skills as a medical representative (MR).
>As with most training, the more you commit to this training the more you and your
colleagues will learn. This is essential as you are all experienced sales people and
although the workshop will guide us through the two days it will be the input from the
MR’s which will add the greatest value to developing knowledge, skills and attitudes.
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>The 2 days will focus on the 5 key steps of the Mundipharma Selling Model,
however there will be significantly more focus on understanding behaviour of self
and others.
>Each step of the model will be reviewed over the 2 days with a number of different
exercises for large and small groups, as well as individuals.
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>Later in the day, we will bring all our learning and skills together in a number of role
plays and the sharing of best practice amongst the group.
>The training programme will end by planning how you will continually develop your
selling skills beyond this training programme and, importantly, on your next territory
visit with your DSM.
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Jelly sweets: Participate in all the exercises to maximise your challenge and
development
Baton: Share your current and past experiences to enhance learning for yourself
and others
Workbook: Write key learning's and examples in the workbook to remind yourself at
a future time
Phones: Switch off and be mindful of others in your use of mobile phones
Face: Enjoy the training programme, which will help you to learn faster
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>The objective for showing this slide is to encourage the delegates to focus on supporting each other.
We have already mentioned this is a training environment and therefore it is safe to try new things.
However to ensure we hit a high performance over the two days we must be in a high support, high
challenge mindset.
>This slide describes a model that is popular for improving and accelerating learning experiences.
>Discuss with the group that throughout the rest of the day, they will be supporting and challenging
each other in the pursuit of developing their skills. This is highly important when looking to advance
selling skills as many of the answer, thoughts and discussions will already be present in the class
room and it will be important that these are shared, challenged and developed.
>Discuss the table. Focus on the fact that the table has 2 axes, one for support and one for challenge.
ASK: What behaviours could you expect to see if they were all operating in the high-support,
high-challenge quadrant?
>Capture the behaviours on a flip chart to refer back to in the next exercise or whenever you need to
remind the group that they need to support and challenge each other to maintain a high performance.
>Gain agreement from the group that they are prepared to engage in these behaviours to maximise
their effectiveness.
ASK: What is likely to happen if we challenge and support each other effectively today? MR’s
should emerge with lots of potential solutions!
>Write solutions on a flip chart to refer to at any point during the workshop.
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>Lets start with building high performance and get straight into selling role-play,
where you can share your skills and experiences and raise your self awareness of
your current selling skills in line with the Mundipharma Selling Model.
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Exercise
Timing: 60 min (30 min/role play total = 15 min role play + 10 min assessment +
5 min feedback)
Objective: to allow the MR’s to observe each other selling and to gauge a
benchmark of the selling skill/capability in the room. Also to help the MR identify
along with their peers the key areas of focus for the Advanced Selling Workshop.
5. Once completed the observer and Dr. Jong must summarise what they liked
about the call and what they would have liked to seen more of
6. Each group must also write down any ‘best practice’ they liked and would want to
share with the group
7. Repeat until all MR’s have played each role
>Collect the ‘best practice’ from each group and write on a flip chart for future
reference.
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>Remaining in their small groups ask each group to discuss the two questions on the
slide. The answers provided must be for each individual at not the group.
>As the facilitator, on a flip chart write down all delegates answers to the questions.
>Summarise any key ‘best practice’ and some of the scores around the training
room. The outcome will always be that MR’s will always want to develop different
skills and this workshop will support everyone of them to learn, practice and
implement something new in their identified area of the selling model.
>Ultimately, everyone in the workshop can develop their selling skills and increase
their business opportunities!
…link into the next slide, how would you like to increase opportunities by 23%?
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>Read quote from slide about the benefits of a fully engaged customer.
>The benefits of owning the moment with customers and fully engaging them in a
persuasive customer experience are excellent, its about great selling.
>Of course the follow up question is “As sales people how do we fully engage our
customers?”
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>Check with the group that the learning outcomes have been achieved.
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>Encourage discussion from the group and write on a key learning’s flip chart their
two key learning's from the session.
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>Every customer is different. Some we get on with well, some we find difficult to get
on with. Some will act on our every request, some will not act on any requests!
>Then of course there is us the MR’s, we are of course perfect! But of course our
customers see other MR’s as well and some they get on with well, some they find
difficult to get on with. Some MR’s will act on their every request, some will not act
on any requests!
>So it’s difficult to tailor every call to our customer, but is it?
1. Understand ourselves
2. Understand our customers
3. Flex our behaviours to match the customers e.g. the right questions, the
right objectives, knowing what information to give and how to give it?
>If we can be like every one of our customers, just for the time we are with them,
think about how engaged they would be, think about the 23% increases we could
achieve!
>It’s not easy to continually flex your style and consider every option a customer may
throw at you, but that’s why this is the advanced selling workshop and by the end of
it you will have new insight, techniques, skills and knowledge to engage and sell to
the majority of your customers.
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>At the centre of the Mundipharma Selling Model is our customer, the Doctor.
WORKBOOK: Think of four doctors, which match the descriptions on the slide
and add them to the workbook (Approx. 5 min), by drawing a picture of the
customer, one picture/box
>Once completed tell the delegates that they will return to these later in the
workshop and they may find some surprising answers!
>For now we are going to learn about behaviours, how we can spot them, what are
their groupings, what does this mean to the MR and the customer?
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>There are over 8 billion people on this planet and no two people are the same,
which means that no two customers are the same, as sales people this does not
make our life easy!
>However as we have already seen the more we can ‘engage’ with our customer the
greater our chances of increasing our business.
>There have been many great people who have studied people and we will touch on
a couple of them in a moment, however before we can truly understand and engage
with our customers we must also know who we are.
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>Ask yourself the question on the slide, what answers do you have?
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>On a daily basis we see our customers behaviours, they are visible to all and we
will often make judgements and decisions about out customers based on what we
see. Of course they will do the same to us! We are in fact experts on each others
behaviours, but not on our own. Which is why whenever we see ourselves on video
we don’t believe we sound or act like that, but we do.
>However, everything that is hidden under the surface has a direct impact on the
behaviours, which are clearly visible to all.
>So to understand and engage with our customers the more we understand their
behaviours and flex our behaviours to match the closer we will become at engaging
with them.
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>Answers: Hippocrates (top left), Wonder Woman (top right), Carl Jung (Middle),
William Marston (Bottom Right), Lie Detector Tester (Bottom Left)
Hippocrates:
First person to classify behaviours: Red Blood, Phlegmatic, Black Bile, Yellow Bile
where the first four classifications, nice!
Carl Jung
Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion, being
the foundation of most modern day behaviour assessment models.
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Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961),
often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who
founded analytical psychology.[2] Jung proposed and developed the concepts of
extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work
has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology,
anthropology, literature, and related fields. The central concept of analytical
psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites,
including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative
autonomy.[3] Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human
development.[4]Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts,
including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has
been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.
William Marston
Built on Jung's work to develop DISC model, which leads to Insights and Colours
models. He also invented the lie detector test and wrote Wonder Woman!
William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name
Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist, inventor and comic book writer who
created the character Wonder Woman
>Importantly each one of these people has built on one another's work in studying
behaviours leading us to today’s more modern tests which have names: Insights,
MBTI, Belbin, DISC Theory, Colours.
>As Carl Jung was the original father of behaviour theory and his work is used in all
current behaviour models, we will focus on his insight to help us understand and
engage with our customers.
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>Before we go any further there are ‘Five’ Golden Rules for working with any of the
models and in particular the Jung model we will be working with.
>Our focus will be on our work behaviours, as again in different situations for
example, at home, we will behave differently.
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>We will add notes during the train the trainer session.
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>We will add notes during the train the trainer session.
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>We will add notes during the train the trainer session.
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>We will add notes during the train the trainer session.
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>Jung's types can be co-ordinated into four quadrants and can be known as red,
yellow, greens and blues.
>This makes it an easier international language and does not give people a ‘name’
like Dominant (Red) or Amiable (Green).
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>Each one of the behaviour types will exhibit different verbal and non-verbal clues.
EYE: What is the expected type of eye contact? E.g. fixed, none etc.
MOUTH: What is the speed/volume of speech? E.g. slow, fast, loud, quiet
HAND: Gestures? E.g. large, small, flowing
ENERGY: What type of energy do they bring to situations? E.g. full-on?
None?
DESK: What do you expect to find on their desk? E.g. chaos, tidy
DRESS: How do you expect them to dress?
PICTURE: If they had a picture on their desk what would it be of? E.g.
Friends, Family, Pets
>On the next slide we will review each one of the quadrants and try to understand
the expected behaviours for each type.
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**SLIDE BUILDS
>Start in the red corner, ask the MR’s their thoughts on what to expect from the
different types.
>Discuss each picture and then rotate to the next colour quadrant.
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WORKBOOK: Return to your workbook and consider the four customers you
identified earlier. Consider all the evidence/discussions and decide what
colour types do you think your four customers are?
>If required work in pairs to discuss your decisions and seek others input if they have
met your customer.
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Exercise
Timing: 20 min (15 min rotations & 5 min top three list)
Objective: to identify and demonstrate that all the behaviour types have strengths
and weaknesses and that the MR should be aware of all of these when influencing a
customer in a sales call.
1. Using tape, mark on the floor four quadrants as in the model on the slide
2. Allow the group to position themselves into the quadrant they believe they
fit into
3. Remaining in that group encourage each group to think of the strengths
and weaknesses of that particular coloured quadrant; if a quadrant does
not have anybody in it as the facilitator, you will have to add information to
that flip chart
4. After a period of time rotate the groups to the next flip chart, again to think
of the strengths and weaknesses of the different coloured quadrants
5. Continue to rotate the groups until they have been to all flip charts
6. Returning to their original flip chart the group then decides on their top
three strengths and weaknesses
7. These are shared with the group
8. Display the flip charts clearly on the walls and refer to them during future
exercises
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Exercise
Timing: 20 min (15 min ways to influence + 5 min feedback)
Objective: to identify and demonstrate that all the behaviour types want to be
influenced in different ways and that the MR should be aware of all of these when
seeking to influence a customer in a sales call.
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Exercise
Timing: 20 min
Objective: to demonstrate to the MRs that flexing personal behaviour type
preferences requires a conscious effort and will therefore require a mindset change
to make sure it happens in every call.
>The overall learning from this exercise is that it is very difficult to flex style to
influence others. It takes a conscious effort, careful thought and planning and plenty
of practice. This is why all the following sessions focus on this model and how it
adapts itself to influencing our customers.
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Exercise
Timing: (20 min)
Objective: to test the MR’s understanding and ability to identify different behaviour
types of people.
>These are three videos of doctors talking about themselves, the videos are
approximately 30 seconds long.
Answers
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ASK:
Which behaviour types where easier to identify than others and why?
What difficulties do you think you will face when trying to assess the
behaviour types of your customers?
What happens if you get the customers behavior type wrong? (Answer:
probably nothing, but you wont have gained anything from the call, so try
something different next time)
How can you see this benefiting you when in your sales calls?
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**SLIDE BUILDS
Exercise
Timing: 30 min (20 min opportunities & Challenges + 10 min group feedback)
Objective: to collate the discussed information on the different behaviour types and
make in specifically relevant to selling to the MR’s customers. Raising awareness
that customer types are different and the skills required to deal with them are
therefore also different.
1. Break the groups into four and give each group one colour type
2. Ask them to consider the ‘Opportunities and challenges’ for selling/working
with their given colour (20 min)
3. Ask each group to feedback their ideas and encourage other groups to
seek further understanding or add additional ideas (10 min)
>Consider what you have learnt so far, now think about your different types of
customer.
>On a flip chart in small groups capture the ‘Opportunities and Challenges’ for
selling/working with the different types of customers.
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Exercise
Timing: 20 min (15 min reflection + 5 min group feedback)
Objective: to help the MR identify the types of behaviours they will need to
demonstrate to work with the different customer types.
1. Individual exercise
2. Add to the workbook thoughts and ideas of how you will flex your style to
the different colour types (15 min) e.g. if you are a blue talking to a yellow
customer you will have to lift your energy, focus on the patients and
feeling, be excitable and prepared to go off in different direction. If you are
a red talking to a green how are you going to slow down, open up, be
friendly and use words like ‘together’ or ‘we’
3. After 15 min share your thoughts and ideas with the larger group and
add/edit your ideas to make sure you have everything you need to
influence all the different behaviour types (5 min)
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WORKBOOK: Return to your workbook and consider the four customers you
identified earlier.
>Consider all the evidence and discussions and answer the questions shown
on the slide.
>Work in pairs to discuss your answers, add the answers to your workbook.
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>Check the learning outcomes for this session have been achieved
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>Encourage discussion from the group and write on a key learning’s flip chart their
two key learning's from the session.
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>We understand the behaviour types, but what does that exactly mean when it
comes to selling and the Mundipharma Selling model?
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>Back to the selling model…so in fact we have one model for four different types of
customer, so how do we maximise our new knowledge to add value and engage with
every different customer and in turn increase our sales?
>To do this we will take each step of the model and examine with the new knowledge
of customer types and look at how we can do things differently to maximise our call
impact.
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Exercise
Timing: 20 min
Objective: to focus the MR’s advanced selling skills on making a difference with a select number of
customers identified by the MR as potential customers for increasing customer engagement.
>Complete the workbook with the names of six customers who you would like to ‘get more’ from. E.g.
increased referrals, better sales, improved relationship, new insight to help you build better business
cases etc. Customers you wish to ‘engage’ to benefit from the 23% increase in customer share of
wallet, sales etc.
>Consider your last call with these customers write down in your workbook:
>Throughout the rest of the workshop we will review an element of the selling model and then return
to these customers to see how you can advanced your selling skills and impact with each one of
these customers.
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>A reminder of the behaviours for the Pre-Call Planning section of the selling model.
ASK: Where do you think the understanding of the colour types could
advanced your selling skills in this part of the selling model?
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>Read slide.
>This slide refers to a ‘focus’ for the different customer types e.g. should you flex
your SMART objective to meet the needs of the different customer types?
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>Read the following text once only an clearly, asking the group to write down every
word you say in their workbook.
“The fox ran down a tunnel which never ended, it went on and on and eventually
appeared next to a road. There were cars on the road, yellow, blue, white, brown, all
colours and shapes. What to do the fox thought? Should I cross and risk my live or
shall I use the bridge and be safe? The story does not have an ending, but
sometimes you have to consider everyone's safety before your own. Families are
always important in life and you will often see them on a beach playing. They usually
spend the whole day there with food, drink, song and sometimes a swim in the sea,
where the fish live”.
>Ask the group how many words they were able to write? There will be a variety on
answers around the room. No one will be able to write all of them!
>Tell the group that there objective for the next task is to increase the number of
words they write this time by 20%.
>Using a clean piece of paper, so the MR’s cannot see their first attempt.
>The majority of people will increase their word score by greater than 20%...its
amazing that if we have a focused objective how much more we can achieve it!
>So if you already have good SMART objectives, what do you need to do to make
them even smarter for the different customer types?
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**SLIDE BUILDS
Exercise
Timing: 20 min (10 min customer types + 10 min group feedback)
Objective: to raise awareness that SMART objectives should focus the
interest/needs of the specific customer types.
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**SLIDE BUILDS
>At each step of the adoption ladder the customer will have different views, ideas,
beliefs and behaviours.
>If you can identify on which step of the ladder the customer is then you can develop
better objectives.
>If for example the customer was at the bottom of the ladder (Unaware) your
objective may focus on increasing knowledge and understanding of your products. If
he/she was at the top (endorse with peers) your objective may focus on building a
stronger believe in your products and organising them to present at local meetings.
>Each step of the adoption ladder will be different and you need to think where you
are moving your customer from and to, whilst setting your SMART objectives.
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Exercise
Timing: 30 min (20 min objective review + 10 min group feedback)
Objective: to increase understanding and planning of specific SMART objectives
related to a customers positioning on the Mundipharma Adoption ladder.
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>As MR’s it is essential that we focus our objective setting using the Adoption Ladder
and structure our calls in line with the ladder. This is because our marketing teams
also use the same descriptions to structure their tactics for each step of the ladder.
>This slide shows different marketing tactics which could be employed at different
steps of the ladder to ensure our customers adopt our brands.
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>It is also essential that as MRs with experience that we help shape campaigns and
tactics by reversing the ‘communication chain’.
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ASK: Are there any other ways MR’s could support marketing to ensure
excellent campaign development adds greater value to Mundipharma
customers?
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ASK: How can this objective be improved to meet the different needs of the
customers?
>Groups should review the objective and then re-word to suit the different customer
types.
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>Show slide for example answers (NOTE: these may not be perfect, but they
demonstrate that the same objective may need to have a different focus depending
on the customer in the call)
>Remember this is about focus! Focusing on the customer type and making sure
your objective focuses on what will interest that customer!
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WORKBOOK: Review your listed six customers. Consider your new objectives
for these customers and their behaviour style, add notes to your workbook to
build a picture and support your next call with that customer.
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>Check the learning outcomes for the session have been achieved.
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>Encourage discussion from the group and write on a key learning’s flip chart their
two key learning's from the session.
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>Refresh the MR’s of the behaviours in the open & engage section of the model.
ASK: What are the benefits of achieving all these behaviours in a call?
>The main answer is that it is about constantly engaging with the customer from the
start to the end of the call.
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>Read these five engaging opening and ask the group to consider which ones would
be more appropriate to which behaviour type?
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>Here are the answers and the reasons why one statement might be more likely to
be appropriate for the different behaviour types.
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Exercise
Timing: 20 min
Objective: to raise awareness and understanding of the flexibility required whilst
opening a call with different customer types.
1. Your turn!
2. Consider the types and how you might flex your opening engaging
statement to reflect the different types
ASK: How easy/difficult is it to flex your style from your natural one?
>Mostly it will be difficult, but like any new skill practice will make perfect.
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>Maintaining rapport throughout a call is essential skill of any sales person. It takes
keen observation of verbal and non-verbal clues shown by the customer and then a
flex of style of the sales person to ensure rapport is continuously maintained.
>With an understanding the different customer styles, how will you now match your
style to that of your customer?
Exercise
Timing: 60 min (10 min Call + 10 min Feedback x3 rotations)
Objective: to ensure MR’s can identify customers different styles during a call and
flex their behaviours in line with those of the customer to ensure a more positive
outcome to a call.
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the observer see/hear during the call that they could share with the group
to help other team members advance their selling skills?’ (10 min)
9. Observer to feedback to the group the groups key learning’s
10. Rotate roles until every team member has played each role
>Facilitator to capture key learning’s from each group on a flip chart for all to see.
ASK: What have you learnt from these role-plays and what difference will it
make to your calls on territory?
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>Check the learning outcomes for the session have been achieved.
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>Encourage discussion from the group and write on a key learning’s flip chart their
two key learning's from the session.
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WORKBOOK: Review your listed six customers. What engaging statement you
will use to open your calls and how you will maintain rapport with each of the
customers.
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>Remind the delegates about the importance of finding the customers need by
showing the following two slides.
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>Reinforce that questions are essential to unlocking the different needs of the
different doctors.
>The needs of the doctors are developed from their beliefs. As discussed earlier,
dominant behaviours are often indicators to those beliefs.
>To maximise the impact of our questions in uncovering our customer’s needs we
must ‘ask’ them correctly!
>Simply, if you know a customer is a dominant green or yellow, why ask them “what
do you think about the data?”, when you know they tend to be ‘feelers’ so, re-wording
the question, “what do you feel about the data?” will get you a better response. A
response with more content/insight and therefore an opportunity to get much deeper
than you have before.
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ASK: Review these four questions. Which ones could you change/adapt to suit
a customer with a more dominant ‘yellow style’?
>See following slide with a couple of the questions changed. The group may come
up with others and that is fine as long as they are focused on an extroverted/people
person (e.g. yellow style).
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>You could change two questions to suit a yellow customer type. The other two are
ok, however the MR’s may have thought of different ways to ask them!
Exercise
Timing: 30 min (20 min matching question types + 10 min group discussion)
Objective: to broaden and develop the MR’s questioning skills to suit the different
styles of customers and to raise awareness that good questions asked slightly
differently will provide new additional, information and insight about the customers
needs.
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**SLIDE BUILDS
>Remember not all questions will need re-writing. This exercise is about raising the
MR’s awareness that their typical questions will match some of their customers, but
not all and if they are to maximise the impact of their needs identification questions
then they should be re=phrased to match the style of the customer. Remember it is
the MR’s responsibility to flex their style to achieve the most positive outcome for the
call, it is not the responsibility of the customer to change their style!
ASK: What have you learnt about yourself as a sales person during that
exercise? What have you learnt about your customers?
>MR’s will also have to consider, as already mentioned, in that questions that feel
uncomfortable to ask to them may not be uncomfortable for their customers! Time to
practice.
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Exercise
Timing: 60 min (10 min call + 10 min feedback x three rotations)
Objective: to ensure the MR’s can correctly structure and implement the first
sections of a typical call with Dr. Jong.
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>Check the learning outcomes for the session have been achieved.
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>Encourage discussion from the group and write on a key learning’s flip chart their
two key learning's from the session.
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WORKBOOK: Review your listed six customers. Consider now what types of
questions would be best suited to your customer in engaging them.
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>If you’ve worked hard building rapport, asking great questions, engaging the
customer throughout the call, then you will be at a position to now solve their need.
ASK: Which elements of this section do you think can be most impacted on by
understanding the customer’s behaviour type?
>Our focus for this part of the workshop will be on ‘uses the relevant information’ and
‘effectively handles objections’.
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Exercise
Timing: 15 min
Objective: to raise self awareness and develop the skill of the MR in solving the
customers needs.
1. Split the group into smaller groups to watch the video (approx. 4 min)
> What behaviour type is the MR? What behaviour type is the Doctor?
ANSWER: Yellow and yellow.
> How did the MR engage the doctor with their information?
ANSWER: It was more of a ‘tell’ than an ‘ask & explore’.
> What else might the MR have done when handling the customer’s
objection?
ANSWER:
a. Could have handled it at the start of the call and closed
effectively
b. Could have used the 5 step process (covered later in this
session).
> What elements of the call did you recognise that you sometimes do?
ANSWER:
a. Do you ‘tell’?
b. Do you avoid handling objections?
c. Do you miss the opportunity to ‘probe’ the customer further?
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>Consider all four different types of customer and answer the two questions on the
slide. Write answers on a flip chart.
>Encourage each group to share one of their answer sheets, until all colours have
been covered.
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>Handling Objections.
>Read slide.
>The great thing about objections is that they can be seen as a ‘buying signal’; the
customer has an interest in the product, but wants to know more. This is an
opportunity to prove your product in the customer’s mind and engage them in
identifying the one patient for your product.
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Promote: ‘Let me show you why product X has a better efficacy than its key
competitors.’
Verify: ‘Does that answer your question? Great, let’s move forward to identifying a
patient.’
ASK: At what step on this 5-step approach is it vital to ensure you consider the
customer’s type?
>All areas will be important, however the ‘promote’ step is where focus may need to
be given e.g. red: to the point answer, blue: need for detail.
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Exercise
Timing: 45 min (25 min develop role-play & practice + 15 role-play
presentations + 5 min facilitator feedback)
Objective: to ensure the MR’s understand and are capable of demonstrating how to
handle a customers objection, by also using the write data/information in the right
way to maintain engagement throughout the call.
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>Check the learning outcomes for the session have been achieved.
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>Encourage discussion from the group and write on a key learning’s flip chart their
two key learning's from the session.
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WORKBOOK: Review your listed six customers. Consider how you should flex
your presentation of information and data to your different customers.
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>However up until now you will probably have ended every call in the same way, so
knowing what you know now how do you think you could improve your agreements
and commitment to action?
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>Watch each of the following videos individually at the end of each one discuss what
could have been done differently to improve the end of the call and left the customer
fully engaged in wanting to support you, your brand and Mundipharma.
Exercise
Timing: Approx. 15 min/video
Objective: to enhance the MR’s ability to gain commitment from any behaviour type
of customer.
>MR’s will have to understand their behaviour type and therefore their preference for
closing (e.g. yellow type of MR may forget to challenge the customer, because they
tend to avoid conflict, blue type of MR may find themselves lost in the data and not
considering the type of customer facing them is more interested in the outcome for
the patient).
>The focus for these videos should be on Question 3 and the facilitator should write
the answers on a flip chart for the delegates to refer back to at a later time.
>Do not tell the MR’s the behaviour types of the MR or customer!
Video One:
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ANSWERS:
How could the MR have improved the end of this call knowing the customers
type? The MR needed to ensure the customer made a very specific
commitment to doing something different.
What additional questions could the MR have asked to ensure the customer
had a ‘clear picture’ in their mind as to the next steps? When would you see
yourself identifying the patient for Targin? At what point will you start using
Targin?
What were the verbal or non-verbal clues that the customer was going to take
action or no action? Probably no action from the customer as the MR led the
close of the call, with no real commitment required by the customer to change
their current behaviour.
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>Do not tell the MR’s the behaviour types of the MR or customer!
Video Two:
An MR with dominant BLUE behaviours closing the call with a dominant GREEN customer.
ANSWERS:
• What type is the customer? Green…casual dress, calm and paced voice, talking a lot about
patients.
• What type is the MR? Blue…slow speech, limited eye contact with customer, focus on data,
detached with reference to the customers concerns for patients.
• How could the MR have improved the end of this call knowing the customers type? Changed
focus to the impact of data on patients quality of life. Focused on others usage of Targin to
demonstrate security for the customer.
• What additional questions could the MR have asked to ensure the customer had a ‘clear picture’
in their mind as to the next steps? How long will it take to have your discussions? Who will you
be speaking to?
• What were the verbal or non-verbal clues that the customer was going to take action or no
action? Customer had made their own mind up about speaking to patients and
peers/colleagues and had a confident voice tone in what they said.
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>Do not tell the MR’s the behaviour types of the MR or customer!
Video Three:
An MR with dominant RED behaviours closing the call with a dominant GREEN
customer.
ANSWERS:
• What type is the customer? Green…looking for time to think, casual dress,
careful in what he was saying, mug on desk.
• What type is the MR? Red...taping the papers, pointed gestures, formal wear,
controlling the conversation, direct approach.
• How could the MR have improved the end of this call knowing the customers
type? Could have asked the customer “what does he feel (rather than think)
about Targin?” Could have slowed the pace of the call. Not been so pushy!
• What additional questions could the MR have asked to ensure the customer
had a ‘clear picture’ in their mind as to the next steps? Who do you think you
may need to talk to understand more about Targin?
• What were the verbal or non-verbal clues that the customer was going to take
action or no action? No action. Customer was pushed into making a decision
under a timeframe they did not agree with. The customer became submissive
and hand in front of the face probably indicated lack of believe in what they
were saying.
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>Do not tell the MR’s the behaviour types of the MR or customer!
Video Four:
An MR with dominant YELLOW behaviours closing the call with a dominant RED customer.
ANSWERS:
• What type is the customer? Red…looking away from conversation, lack of focus,
pushing back on suggestions made, formal wear, clean desk.
• What type is the MR? Yellow…casual wear, shuffling papers, high energy, focus on
customers weekend.
• How could the MR have improved the end of this call knowing the customers type?
Looked to conclude with a good benefits summary of Targin, highlighting the benefits to
the customer and his practice.
• What additional questions could the MR have asked to ensure the customer had a
‘clear picture’ in their mind as to the next steps? What specific patient data would the
customer need to see to make a decision?
• What were the verbal or non-verbal clues that the customer was going to take action or
no action? Looking away to computer, having to rethink for the MR to bring something
additional data in, short/sharp sentences. At the end of this call the customer did not
and would not change any of their behaviours to start or increase their usage of Targin.
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Exercise
Timing: 10 min
Objective: to demonstrate that the different customer styles have differing
communication needs and that whatever the style of the MR this will need flexing to
maximise the opportunity for a positive commitment to action.
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>Encourage discussion from the group and write on a key learning’s flip chart their
two key learning's from the session.
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WORKBOOK: Review your listed six customers. Consider how you will engage
your customer with a positive agreement and commitment to action.
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>Post-Call follow up is an essential part of the call, so we do not want to miss the
final part of the Mundipharma Selling Model.
>Ensuring correct information to support your next call objective should always be
updated to ensure you can move customers up the adoption ladder.
>Consider how you may capture information on your customers to reflect their
behaviour type and how you can use this to maximise their engagement throughout
the call.
>In a moment we will review your personal selling skill performance and you will plan
the next steps with customers and your DSM.
>Before that lets ‘bring everything together’ from our workshop and practice.
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Exercise
Timing: 60 min (10 min call + 10 min feedback x three rotations)
Objective: to embed the workshop learning's and ensure the MR is capable and
confident to use the advanced selling skills.
Return to the original groups from day one, where you did the first selling exercise
and assessed each other.
1. Using one of the customers from your workbook that we have worked on
throughout today brief your partner to play the customer. Be challenging on
yourself and select a customer who is a different type to you
2. Role-play a call with that customer (15 min)
3. Customer provide feedback to MR using the questions on the slide (5 min)
4. Review the call using your original assessment sheet from the first call of the
workshop, take note of key changes/differences
5. Repeat process with reverse roles
6. REPEAT as many times as possible in the timeframe left for the day (you will
need 30 min to complete the day)
ASK:
What have people learnt from that exercise?
How were some of the challenges overcome?
What was easy/hard about constantly flexing style?
What was the key learning's that people can share with the group?
What’s going to make the biggest difference when the MR is back on territory?
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>Encourage discussion from the group and write on a key learning’s flip chart their
two key learning's from the session.
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>Time now to reflect on the whole meeting and consider how the advanced selling
techniques learnt and developed during the workshop can be continually developed
whilst back on territory, working with DSM and ensuring best practice can be shared
with other MR’s within their teams.
>Split the group into pairs and answer the questions on the slide.
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