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Learn How To

Connect with your customers perspectives and needs
Engage your audience effectively with different pitching techniques
Map the power dynamics between customers and sellers
Make sales personal, purposeful and ultimately human

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Course Syllabus

01

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

Video: Introduction to the Course

Video: Why More and More Jobs Involve Selling

Video: What is Non-Sales Selling?

Assignment: Frame Your Sales Challenge

Video: Why Sales Has Changed in the Last 10 Years

Video: The Shift Away from Information Asymmetry

Quiz: Is this Information Asymmetry or Information Parity?

Video: 2 Ways to Think About Moving Others

Assignment: Apply Irritation or Agitation

02

THE NEW ABC’S OF SELLING: ATTUNEMENT, BUOYANCY, CLARITY

Video: The New ABCs of Selling

Video: Get Better at Attunement if You Have Power

Video: Get Better at Attunement if You're NOT in Power

Assignment: Get More Attuned to the People You're Trying to Move

Video: How to Practice Mimicry (and why it works)

Video: How to Practice Interrogative Self-Talk

Video: Tips for Staying Buoyant

Assignment: 3Ps for Staying Buoyant

Video: The Most Important Question in Sales

Assignment: Compared to What?

Video: How to Get People to Take Clear Actions

03

THE ART OF PITCHING

Video: What is the Purpose of a Pitch?

Video: The One-Word Pitch

Video: The Rhyming Pitch

Video: The Pixar Pitch

Assignment: Develop Your Pitch

04

MAKE IT PERSONAL. MAKE IT PURPOSEFUL

Video: The Link Between Sales and Service

Video: How to Infuse a Sense of Purpose into Sales

Video: Final Advice from Daniel

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Loved it! The presentation is engaging and compelling. This Master Class made me a better negotiator and more persuasive pitcher.”

Anna

Course Description

In this course, bestselling author Daniel Pink shares research-grounded tactics to better understand your audience and convince them to take clear actions—whether that is funding your venture, buying your product, or adopting your new idea. Daniel’s insights will change how you see the world and will transform how you interact with others, no matter the context.
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About
the Instructor

Daniel Pink

NYT bestselling author of books including "To Sell is Human", "Drive" and "When and A Whole New Mind", and host and co-executive producer for “Crowd Control,” a National Geographic Channel television series about human behavior.

About
the Instructor

Daniel Pink

NYT bestselling author of books including "To Sell is Human", "Drive" and "When and A Whole New Mind", and host and co-executive producer for “Crowd Control,” a National Geographic Channel television series about human behavior.

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