Growth Dynamics Get Down

Hey, how is everybody today? It's Fast Tip Friday time, Charlie Hauck growth dynamics. I've got one. It might be a little bit long, but some of you—I hope you'll laugh at it, not be offended by any of it—but it's something, It's one of those cycles that I keep running into when I'm out at a client site, talking to their sales teams.

Hey everybody. How are you today? Fast Tip Friday from Charlie Hauck, President, lead trainer at growth dynamics.

Symptoms:
After a long sales process finally appeared to be coming to a successful conclusion, Paul was breathing a sigh of relief until his client decided he wanted to extract some sweat from Paul for the win. Just when he thought it was over and done, the regional vice president chimed in with one last contract change that he claimed was a deal breaker if it wasn't accommodated.

All right, everybody. Charlie Hauck. Good morning, good afternoon. Whenever you're listening to it, it's fine by me, it's Fast Tip Friday time again.

Hey, one of the things I want to talk about now, and it's kind of personal, is that we understand that our attitude, our mental state, our mental toughness is as important as anything that you can deal with in the world of business development; if your attitude is, woe is me, sorry, you probably need a new profession.

Symptoms: 

With her best customer looking for something creative to solve his inventory issues, Ginny realized that none of her immediate ideas sounded likely to impress the customer.

Hey, I wanted to tell you that part of our business offering, here at Growth Dynamics, is to support the best possible outcomes in hiring talent. For our clients out in the marketplace, we work with a lot of different people to help them find the best available talent to add to their business development teams, sometimes to their executive teams.

Situation: 

You just realized that you sell a commodity, and all that feature and benefit propaganda the Research and Development specialists fed you sounds exactly like the competitor’s features and benefits. Now you must find a way to re-invent yourself so that you are not just another “me, too” person trying to schedule a sales call here, there, and everywhere. The more you dial and ask to schedule that sales call the less agreeable people seem to be. You share some quick hitters about your “proprietary applications” and still you feel left out and frustrated. What does it take to get decision makers to want to put you on their calendar?

Symptoms:
Charlie had been working with a long-time client and just can’t believe why some meetings could really get under his skin. Charlie left angry with this client’s attitude towards him, the ability to waste time like it was nothing and at times complete disrespect for Charlie and his process.