Career and workplace outcome
Understand buyer needs
Use respectful discovery to understand the buyer’s context, desired outcome, constraints, decision process, and right to say no before proposing a solution.
Success framing
What useful progress looks like
You can summarize the need in the buyer’s words, verify fit, identify material gaps, and recommend no purchase when the offer is not appropriate.
Who this is for
Use this path for a bounded professional capability. Adapt it to your role and authority, follow employer and client policy, protect confidential and personal data, preserve consent and fair process, and involve qualified HR, legal, security, safety, or other professional support when stakes exceed your role.
Curated sequence
Learn in order, then act
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How to Use Active Listening in Your Selling Process
Matt Easton
Use this selected video to understand the method, evidence, and professional limits behind how to use active listening in your selling process, then apply the bounded checklist on this page.
- Key takeaway
- How to Use Active Listening in Your Selling Process
- Action
- Research the context
Matt Easton via YouTube
The power of listening | William Ury | TEDxSanDiego
TEDx Talks
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- Key takeaway
- The power of listening | William Ury | TEDxSanDiego
- Action
- ask permission for questions
TEDx Talks via YouTube
U.S. Small Business Administration: Marketing and Sales
www.sba.gov
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- Key takeaway
- U.S. Small Business Administration: Marketing and Sales
- Action
- use open prompts
www.sba.gov
Action plan
Take the smallest useful next step
- Research the context
- ask permission for questions
- use open prompts
- listen and reflect
- distinguish stated need from assumption
- clarify budget timing stakeholders and risks without intrusion
- summarize
- agree whether a next step is useful.
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