Course : Responding to customer objections

convince and create new opportunities

Practical course - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. TOB
Price : 1500 CHF E.T.

Responding to customer objections

convince and create new opportunities



How to understand, assess and anticipate objections? How to hear objections positively and use them as leverage? Based on concrete case studies, participants will develop their own communication strategy to respond to the objections they are usually confronted with in their commercial practice.


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In person or remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. TOB
  2d - 14h00
1500 CHF E.T.




How to understand, assess and anticipate objections? How to hear objections positively and use them as leverage? Based on concrete case studies, participants will develop their own communication strategy to respond to the objections they are usually confronted with in their commercial practice.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Analyze the objection as an opportunity
Anticipate and prepare for objections
Adopt a confident, soothing attitude to respond appropriately
Developing influential communication

Intended audience
Sales people who want to increase their effectiveness in sales and negotiation.

Prerequisites
Commercial experience desirable.

Practical details
Exercise
Exercises, role-playing, sharing best practices.

Course schedule

1
Hearing and understanding objections

  • Identify the different types of objections.
  • Understand the real need behind it.
  • Gather and classify information: build a reading grid.
  • Analyze at what point in the sales process it is expressed.
  • Identify the objection behind the objection.
Exercise
Workshop: identify and classify objections encountered by participants.

2
Adapting your communication

  • Identify the customer's personality: needs, expectations.
  • Adjust your communication and make it audible.
  • Identify your own feelings when faced with an objection.
  • Perceive your "position" vis-à-vis the customer.
  • Seize the objection as an opening and an opportunity.
  • Use techniques adapted to the circumstances: the particular case of price.
Role-playing
Dealing with objections face-to-face and in groups. Group debriefing.

3
Anticipate objections to secure the process

  • Identify potential objections: possible responses.
  • Reverse the process: based on the answer, what objections are possible?
  • Build up a catalog of objections and appropriate responses.
  • Turning the competition argument into an objection.
  • Get out of your usual frame of reference to stay in control.
  • Measure the real impact of the objection on the process: level of "pollution" of the objection.
  • Find allies and cross-reference information to overcome objections.
Exercise
Workshop: identify the arguments/objections of participants' main competitors. Measure the level of "pollution" of an objection and the appropriate strategy.

4
Using influential communication to overcome objections

  • Improving communication to better influence.
  • Rely on a few basic rules derived from the systems approach.
  • Adopt positive communication.
  • Focus on customers and their values.
  • Adjusting communication in face-to-face or group situations: who is present, what is expected?
Role-playing
Dealing with objections during a presentation to a customer, in front of a group. Group debriefing.


Publication date : 01/11/2024


Dates and locations

Last places available
Guaranteed date, in person or remotely
Guaranteed session
From 11 to 12 June 2026 *
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 17 to 18 September 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 19 to 20 November 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration

REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 11 June, 17 Sep., 19 Nov.