Course : Developing your portfolio through active recommendation: intensive workshops

Turning customers into prospecting allies

Practical course - 1d - 7h00 - Ref. RRA
Price : 690 € E.T.

Developing your portfolio through active recommendation: intensive workshops

Turning customers into prospecting allies


New course

Enriching your customer base is essential to achieving your sales objectives and growing your business. Your customers are invaluable allies in putting you in touch with new, qualified prospects. How can you structure an active referral strategy in your prospecting? How can you create the right conditions to encourage referrals? This training course will give you the practical, immediately applicable keys to making active referrals a real business gas pedal, in a win-win spirit.


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Practical course
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. RRA
  1d - 7h00
690 € E.T.




Enriching your customer base is essential to achieving your sales objectives and growing your business. Your customers are invaluable allies in putting you in touch with new, qualified prospects. How can you structure an active referral strategy in your prospecting? How can you create the right conditions to encourage referrals? This training course will give you the practical, immediately applicable keys to making active referrals a real business gas pedal, in a win-win spirit.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Integrate active recommendation into your sales approach
Identify high-potential targets and influencers
Feeling legitimate and confident in your request for a recommendation
Formulate a request clearly and positively
Structuring a personalized recommendation pitch
Manage the response from the requested prescriber

Intended audience
Commercial players in all sectors wishing to increase their number of qualified prospects

Prerequisites
Sales experience and customer portfolio highly recommended

Practical details
Hands-on work
Progressive practical workshops on know-how and interpersonal skills, role-playing, toolbox, etc.
Teaching methods
Active, participative teaching methods. Alternating theory/practice with application to the context and experience of participants.

Course schedule

1
Daring to make active recommendations: getting ready

  • Understanding the power of recommendations as a prospecting lever
  • Overcoming apprehension
  • Working on your sales posture
  • A win-win approach to referrals
Hands-on work
Exchanges : Why I don't dare ask for a recommendation". Positive reformulation exercises. Pitch workshop n°1: first draft of your recommendation pitch.

2
Identify high-potential prescribers

  • Map your current network: customers, former customers, partners, personal relationships...
  • Evaluate the potential of a prescriber: availability, credibility, network, affinity...
  • Prioritizing the best prescribers
  • Action planning
Hands-on work
Analyze customer portfolio and relationships with high-potential customers. Draw up a list of priority prescribers. Define a targeted action plan.

3
Create the right conditions for active recommendation

  • Integrate recommendations into the structure of your sales talk
  • Locate "the instant recommendation"
  • Structuring your pitch: clarity, precision and simplicity
  • Adapt your message to the prescriber's profile and the channel used
Hands-on work
Face-to-face and/or telephone customer interview scenarios. Identify signals of openness to a recommendation. Pitch workshop n°2: writing and practicing a personalized pitch in pairs.

4
Practice implementing active recommendation

  • Manage the prescriber's responses: enthusiasm, hesitation, refusal...
  • Relaunching a prescriber without pressure
  • Acknowledging and rewarding referrals
  • Set up a simple and effective follow-up system for recommendations obtained and to be solicited
Hands-on work
Role-playing: complete simulation of an interview including active recommendation. Pitch workshop n°3: review and optimization of the pitch and final role-play with feedback. Define your action plan for deploying referral requests.


Dates and locations
Select your location or opt for the remote class then choose your date.
Remote class

Dernières places
Date garantie en présentiel ou à distance
Session garantie

REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 27 Mar., 1 July, 21 Sep., 9 Dec.

PARIS LA DÉFENSE
2026 : 20 Mar., 24 June, 14 Sep., 2 Dec.