Whether it is with customers, team members or friends and family, it is experienced as useful when one can lead conversations to a common goal. The deck includes the slides of one of my workshops on this theme
“Fail forward”
"Every journey begins with a single step"
“Do or do not, there is no try”
There’s no shortage of inspirational mantras, but these sayings offer little advice to surmounting departmental silos, generational gulfs, intimidating power distances and other communication roadblocks that stymie creative collaboration in the workplace.
These barriers exist because the roles we play in a team environment provide us with a set of rules for interacting with each other. Ironically, these rules often prevent us from doing the very thing we’ve come together as a team to do: Collaborate!
In this session, Carolyn and Anna will discuss how to break the rules and transform those roadblocks into building blocks… freeing you and your team to live up to the mantra of your choice.
Learn about common communication barriers; why they exist and how they hinder team innovation.
Understand the value of design synthesis as a group activity, and how play is a central component to the co-creation dynamic.
Explore a type of creative team play called a Spark-a-Thon. You’ve probably heard of the hack-a-thon, a fun and popular way to immerse yourself into a problem and solve it with code. What would happen if this format of time-limited, team-oriented creation was applied to design concepting? The answer: The Spark-a-Thon, which leads to bigger ideas and a stronger team problem-solving dynamic.
Gain tips, tricks, and resources, so that you can go run your own Spark-a-Thon. You'll leave armed with some benefits and results you’ll glean from it, too - just in case you need to build an internal business case for it.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. Join us to learn some serious play!
Working out the priority audience for your content strategy is not always as straightforward as it seems. All too often we fall into the trap of tailoring our content plans to our current audiences, instead of our target audiences. When they’re not one and the same, then your return on investment will suffer. This guide helps you to think more about prioritising your audiences and focusing efforts for your content strategy.
Working out the priority audience for your content strategy is not always as straightforward as it seems. All too often we fall into the trap of tailoring our content plans to our current audiences, instead of our target audiences. When they’re not one and the same, then your return on investment will suffer. This guide helps you to think more about prioritising your audiences and focusing efforts for your content strategy.
35 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Quit My Job (3yrs later)Ross Simmonds
It’s been nearly 3 crazy years since I put in my two weeks notice and left the 9 to 5 once and for all. It was a crazy time in my life as I had just bought a home, but was completely tired and drained of working for someone else. I knew I had to escape the 9 to 5 and I was determined a few months earlier to put the steps in place that would allow me to make it a reality.
Over the last 3 years, I’ve built a consulting business that last year did more than $250k in revenue. I share the figure because I want people to know that I’m by no means on the level of Mark Zuckerberg or any of the folks on Shark Tank but that I’ve reached a point financially that I’ve been able to live life on my terms. I’ve been able to make investments into projects I’m passionate about like HustleAndGrind.co and GetCrate.co.
Looking back over the couple years, it’s been filled with highs and lows.
I wouldn’t change it for the world and I’m thankful that I’ve been able to grow and have great people around me. If it wasn’t for my clients, partners, family and friends — I would likely have burned out many months ago and not be writing this post. So thank you…
For anyone who is stuck in the 9 to 5 and is looking to escape, I just published a guide called The Hustle Manifesto that goes a bit deeper into some of the ideas I’m going to share in this post.
It’s not just a guide, it’s a resource pack filled with stories, email scripts, challenges, webinars, and clear insights that I’ve gathered over the last few years. Check it out while it’s available at a limited time price.
Alright, let’s get to it…
“Fail forward”
"Every journey begins with a single step"
“Do or do not, there is no try”
There’s no shortage of inspirational mantras, but these sayings offer little advice to surmounting departmental silos, generational gulfs, intimidating power distances and other communication roadblocks that stymie creative collaboration in the workplace.
These barriers exist because the roles we play in a team environment provide us with a set of rules for interacting with each other. Ironically, these rules often prevent us from doing the very thing we’ve come together as a team to do: Collaborate!
In this session, Carolyn and Anna will discuss how to break the rules and transform those roadblocks into building blocks… freeing you and your team to live up to the mantra of your choice.
Learn about common communication barriers; why they exist and how they hinder team innovation.
Understand the value of design synthesis as a group activity, and how play is a central component to the co-creation dynamic.
Explore a type of creative team play called a Spark-a-Thon. You’ve probably heard of the hack-a-thon, a fun and popular way to immerse yourself into a problem and solve it with code. What would happen if this format of time-limited, team-oriented creation was applied to design concepting? The answer: The Spark-a-Thon, which leads to bigger ideas and a stronger team problem-solving dynamic.
Gain tips, tricks, and resources, so that you can go run your own Spark-a-Thon. You'll leave armed with some benefits and results you’ll glean from it, too - just in case you need to build an internal business case for it.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. Join us to learn some serious play!
Working out the priority audience for your content strategy is not always as straightforward as it seems. All too often we fall into the trap of tailoring our content plans to our current audiences, instead of our target audiences. When they’re not one and the same, then your return on investment will suffer. This guide helps you to think more about prioritising your audiences and focusing efforts for your content strategy.
Working out the priority audience for your content strategy is not always as straightforward as it seems. All too often we fall into the trap of tailoring our content plans to our current audiences, instead of our target audiences. When they’re not one and the same, then your return on investment will suffer. This guide helps you to think more about prioritising your audiences and focusing efforts for your content strategy.
35 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Quit My Job (3yrs later)Ross Simmonds
It’s been nearly 3 crazy years since I put in my two weeks notice and left the 9 to 5 once and for all. It was a crazy time in my life as I had just bought a home, but was completely tired and drained of working for someone else. I knew I had to escape the 9 to 5 and I was determined a few months earlier to put the steps in place that would allow me to make it a reality.
Over the last 3 years, I’ve built a consulting business that last year did more than $250k in revenue. I share the figure because I want people to know that I’m by no means on the level of Mark Zuckerberg or any of the folks on Shark Tank but that I’ve reached a point financially that I’ve been able to live life on my terms. I’ve been able to make investments into projects I’m passionate about like HustleAndGrind.co and GetCrate.co.
Looking back over the couple years, it’s been filled with highs and lows.
I wouldn’t change it for the world and I’m thankful that I’ve been able to grow and have great people around me. If it wasn’t for my clients, partners, family and friends — I would likely have burned out many months ago and not be writing this post. So thank you…
For anyone who is stuck in the 9 to 5 and is looking to escape, I just published a guide called The Hustle Manifesto that goes a bit deeper into some of the ideas I’m going to share in this post.
It’s not just a guide, it’s a resource pack filled with stories, email scripts, challenges, webinars, and clear insights that I’ve gathered over the last few years. Check it out while it’s available at a limited time price.
Alright, let’s get to it…
Where does creativity come from? Explore then inspire your content marketing with quotes and tips from Content Marketing World keynote speaker John Cleese and other creative innovators.
Have you ever had a stakeholder tell you no? Have you had to persuade someone that e-learning was not the solution? Most learning and development professionals would claim that L&D has nothing to do with sales. While we may not be selling vacuum cleaners door to door, each of us use sales tactics daily to advocate for our ideas. In this session, we will evaluate the role and use of sales strategies in training and development, as well as how to apply them to your role within your organization.
Have you lost direction and focus in your business? Find out how understanding and communicating your core values can help you find your direction again and move your business from the infant or teenage stage, to a mature business.
How we think about marketing at Drift. From focusing on words more than design, making it simple, writing like a human, and focusing on our customers above all else.
Ariana Friedlander, Rosabella Consulting, LLC , @arianaf
Do you struggle connecting with your customers? Having a hard time getting valuable insights from your customers? Tired of running experiments that don’t give accurate pass/fail indicators? In this hands-on interactive session, Ariana will help you move past those limitations by sharing her unique co-creational approach. At the end, you will walk away with a well crafted line of inquiry so that you may conduct more effective experiments while building your community of supporters.
Leading Workshops With Cross-Functional Teams—Kate Kaplan & Cait Vlastakis Smithcaitvsmith
More and more, the responsibility of designing and facilitating stakeholder conversations—and creating the harmony necessary to pull them off—is falling to the UX role. Regardless of experience level or title, many UX professionals find themselves in the position of needing to bring stakeholders together to build consensus on UX plans, define product strategy, gather internal insights, and create buy-in for UX resources. This talk provides practical how-to advice for planning and pulling off effective collaborative discussions with the cross-functional stakeholders we need on board in order to most effectively do our jobs.
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Talk given by Kate Kaplan and Cait Vlastakis Smith in Raleigh, NC at UX Y'all
You’re probably familiar with the idea of storytelling to create a better presentation. But your stories could turn to nightmares and haunt you if you don’t avoid these traps in your presentation.
How Humans Think - UX and Content Marketing - Cait Vlastakis Smith - Centerli...Centerline Digital
UX & Content Marketing: Navigating How Humans Think
Humans are strange, complex, fickle creatures. That said, it's our job as designers, content creators and marketers to deeply understand our audience as humans, not just "users" or "buyers." Why? So we stop making content people don't need, want or care about, and start delivering greater value.
The biggest challenge we face is putting aside our own personal preferences and biases. The best way tackle this challenge is by diving head first into audience research to understand who we're talking to. In essence: We have to think less like marketers and more like our audience.
This presentation given at DMFB explores action-based methods to begin untangling how people think. Throughout the presentation, we explored:
1) How the brain is structured to process information
2) Key questions to ask ourselves during content and design planning to help us think more like our audience
3) User experience (UX) research methods to apply throughout content marketing efforts, such as interviews and contextual inquiries
4) How to synthesize varying depths of customer insights into strategic outputs to guide content creation, and
5) A step-by-step "audience first" content planning guide that serves as a jumpstart tool for building content marketing programs around humans
Uncovering what motivates people, surfacing unknown needs and gathering insights will ultimately help us figure out how we can serve them better. Unpacking the answers to “Why” fuels user experience research. And when applied to content marketing, it paints a clearer picture of our audience and helps us create meaningful content and user-centered experiences that win attention, respect and loyalty.
For more information, please visit http://www.centerline.net or find me on Twitter at @caitvsmith.
TED talks have become the gold standard for public speaking. So, how do you craft one? In this talk, originally delivered in a workshop at the Harvard Kennedy School, TEDx talker and coach/consultant Terri Trespicio shares how she has crafted TED talks for herself and others that get booked--and seen. And how to apply the principles of TED to every talk you give.
Developing and Maintaining the Art of Writing by Susan Mwenda Mulongoti slid...Susan Mwenda-Mulongoti
Are you an aspiring writer, author or coach? You will discover some of my biggest tips that have helped me to write more than 7 books in a space of 2 years
How to win on the customer experience battleground; where businesses are won ...Noojee Contact Solutions
Everyone's talking about customer experience. But what is it? And how can you really influence it, to give your business a winning advantage? Here's your action plan!
We take you step by step through how to define customer experience (hint: it's not the same as customer service!).
Then, through a series of checkpoints you'll begin to identify the touchpoints and interactions that you can influence, particularly in your contact centre.
Finally we'll take a look at how Zappos managed to transform their customer experience - and what the learnings are for you.
This is a great presentation to go through with your management team or a customer service team looking to find way to improve.
Slides of the motivational Sales Pitch during the TechData Touch Tour in Belgium.
Objective : motivate sales people and give them insights in the opportunities attached to Windows 8, touch devices, cloud vs on premise solutions and Microsoft Office
Where does creativity come from? Explore then inspire your content marketing with quotes and tips from Content Marketing World keynote speaker John Cleese and other creative innovators.
Have you ever had a stakeholder tell you no? Have you had to persuade someone that e-learning was not the solution? Most learning and development professionals would claim that L&D has nothing to do with sales. While we may not be selling vacuum cleaners door to door, each of us use sales tactics daily to advocate for our ideas. In this session, we will evaluate the role and use of sales strategies in training and development, as well as how to apply them to your role within your organization.
Have you lost direction and focus in your business? Find out how understanding and communicating your core values can help you find your direction again and move your business from the infant or teenage stage, to a mature business.
How we think about marketing at Drift. From focusing on words more than design, making it simple, writing like a human, and focusing on our customers above all else.
Ariana Friedlander, Rosabella Consulting, LLC , @arianaf
Do you struggle connecting with your customers? Having a hard time getting valuable insights from your customers? Tired of running experiments that don’t give accurate pass/fail indicators? In this hands-on interactive session, Ariana will help you move past those limitations by sharing her unique co-creational approach. At the end, you will walk away with a well crafted line of inquiry so that you may conduct more effective experiments while building your community of supporters.
Leading Workshops With Cross-Functional Teams—Kate Kaplan & Cait Vlastakis Smithcaitvsmith
More and more, the responsibility of designing and facilitating stakeholder conversations—and creating the harmony necessary to pull them off—is falling to the UX role. Regardless of experience level or title, many UX professionals find themselves in the position of needing to bring stakeholders together to build consensus on UX plans, define product strategy, gather internal insights, and create buy-in for UX resources. This talk provides practical how-to advice for planning and pulling off effective collaborative discussions with the cross-functional stakeholders we need on board in order to most effectively do our jobs.
.
.
.
Talk given by Kate Kaplan and Cait Vlastakis Smith in Raleigh, NC at UX Y'all
You’re probably familiar with the idea of storytelling to create a better presentation. But your stories could turn to nightmares and haunt you if you don’t avoid these traps in your presentation.
How Humans Think - UX and Content Marketing - Cait Vlastakis Smith - Centerli...Centerline Digital
UX & Content Marketing: Navigating How Humans Think
Humans are strange, complex, fickle creatures. That said, it's our job as designers, content creators and marketers to deeply understand our audience as humans, not just "users" or "buyers." Why? So we stop making content people don't need, want or care about, and start delivering greater value.
The biggest challenge we face is putting aside our own personal preferences and biases. The best way tackle this challenge is by diving head first into audience research to understand who we're talking to. In essence: We have to think less like marketers and more like our audience.
This presentation given at DMFB explores action-based methods to begin untangling how people think. Throughout the presentation, we explored:
1) How the brain is structured to process information
2) Key questions to ask ourselves during content and design planning to help us think more like our audience
3) User experience (UX) research methods to apply throughout content marketing efforts, such as interviews and contextual inquiries
4) How to synthesize varying depths of customer insights into strategic outputs to guide content creation, and
5) A step-by-step "audience first" content planning guide that serves as a jumpstart tool for building content marketing programs around humans
Uncovering what motivates people, surfacing unknown needs and gathering insights will ultimately help us figure out how we can serve them better. Unpacking the answers to “Why” fuels user experience research. And when applied to content marketing, it paints a clearer picture of our audience and helps us create meaningful content and user-centered experiences that win attention, respect and loyalty.
For more information, please visit http://www.centerline.net or find me on Twitter at @caitvsmith.
TED talks have become the gold standard for public speaking. So, how do you craft one? In this talk, originally delivered in a workshop at the Harvard Kennedy School, TEDx talker and coach/consultant Terri Trespicio shares how she has crafted TED talks for herself and others that get booked--and seen. And how to apply the principles of TED to every talk you give.
Developing and Maintaining the Art of Writing by Susan Mwenda Mulongoti slid...Susan Mwenda-Mulongoti
Are you an aspiring writer, author or coach? You will discover some of my biggest tips that have helped me to write more than 7 books in a space of 2 years
How to win on the customer experience battleground; where businesses are won ...Noojee Contact Solutions
Everyone's talking about customer experience. But what is it? And how can you really influence it, to give your business a winning advantage? Here's your action plan!
We take you step by step through how to define customer experience (hint: it's not the same as customer service!).
Then, through a series of checkpoints you'll begin to identify the touchpoints and interactions that you can influence, particularly in your contact centre.
Finally we'll take a look at how Zappos managed to transform their customer experience - and what the learnings are for you.
This is a great presentation to go through with your management team or a customer service team looking to find way to improve.
Slides of the motivational Sales Pitch during the TechData Touch Tour in Belgium.
Objective : motivate sales people and give them insights in the opportunities attached to Windows 8, touch devices, cloud vs on premise solutions and Microsoft Office
Systemische archetypes zijn veelvoorkomende en zichzelf herhalende patronen in organisaties.
Het ontdekken en aanpakken van deze archetypes geeft de mogelijkheid om fundamentele en duurzame oplossingen te bieden aan de problemen die zich in organisaties stellen.
Benefits and Disadvantages of Single Gender EducationCoralys Santiago
Research paper about the advantages and disadvantages of children studying in a single-sex school. It includes a definition of single sex schools and the difference between these and co-ed schools; as well as the history behind single gender education (origins). In this paper you will learn the academic benefits of single sex education, as well as the psychological and social disadvantages it can bring to a child.
Trabajo investigativo sobre las ventajas y desventajas de la educación separada (o segregada) por sexos.
Experience with several 1000s of sales professionals, managers, team members and private persons show how complex it is for most of them to have conversations that lead to the desired result in the shortest of times.
A good conversation reduces the cycles and processes and brings people much faster to their desired common goal.
These slides are a selection of materials I use during my one day CONVERSATION STYLING workshop that makes the difference
When you come to the Wednesday Pitch Day event, this presentation may help you in preparing and killing the first event.
Remember - this is a FIVE MINUTE pitch - but this presentation is actually much, MUCH longer.
The Role of Storytelling in Community and Economic Development
Jolene Schalper, Senior Vice President Business Development, Great Falls Development Authority, Great Falls, MT
The Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce sponsored this session for area business owners and leaders. The session was facilited by Tim McAdow, Director of Marketing and Communication for Integrity Insurance; Tom Clifford, Director of Digital Development at HC Miller, Susan Finco, Owner and President of Leonard & Finco Public Relations; Patrick Hopkins, President of Imaginasium; Robert Jahnke, President of Top Hat Marketing; Diane Roundy, Director of Business Development for Schenck SC
Take a deep dive look at my world, mentality, and processes. Here, I share past work like web design and illustration. I also share some thoughts about the future.
Your brand is what people say and think about you when you are not in the room. It is your reputation. While you can't control all aspects of your brand, you can define and guide it. This workshop presentation walks through company and personal branding basics and gives practical advice on defining, researching, creating and communicating your professional, product or company brand.
Getting on in life is much about being aware of where you want to go, make that destination as shiny as possible and next gather the resources to get there step by step.
This keynote inspires in three areas :
- your personal shiny goal
- your company's shiny goal
- shiny goals in business projects
Hans Demeyer is Master NLP practitioner, published auther and keynote speaker
Discovering hidden treasures of your pirate brainHans Demeyer
1,5 hour inspiring and interactive keynote during which participants gain and experience ready-to-use insights that bring them closer to full situational mastery
Sustainable Entrepreneurship with Sustainable TechnologyHans Demeyer
Sustainability is tree-fold : how can we respect
1. Nature
2. People
3. Processes
The slides accompany an animated 2h workshop delivered at HoGent for Students in Information technology
In this Story, we follow Sophie in her life and job. In her new job, she meets Marco, who chose Microsoft Solutions to be as compliant as possible with GDPR.
If you want to hear the story behind the slides, feel free to get in touch via www.thedataprotectionoffice.eu
Stuff we can learn from the Challenger Sales ProHans Demeyer
Studies show that Challenger sales are very successful in closing high value and more complex deals. What are some of the qualities we can learn and adopt to achieve that same level of success?
Studies and results show that Challengers are much more performant than relation builders, problem solvers or any of the other typical sales types. How can you finetune your challenger skills and become a high value sales pro?
From Sales Person to Facilitator of a Buying ProcessHans Demeyer
Presentation delivered at Microsoft's WPC2013 in Houston on July 9, 2013.
Theme : Forget about being a sales person and focus on being the coach who guides the customer towards siging the order form. Since few of us want to be sold to, but all of us want to buy, it becomes increasingly important to build compelling conversations with the customers and focus on an effective balance between ratio and emotion. This presentation highlights some tips and tricks to do so. Feel free to get in touch with me to discover how the Suppliers of Optimism and Inspiration can coach you in each of the steps.
Oprah Winfrey: A Leader in Media, Philanthropy, and Empowerment | CIO Women M...CIOWomenMagazine
This person is none other than Oprah Winfrey, a highly influential figure whose impact extends beyond television. This article will delve into the remarkable life and lasting legacy of Oprah. Her story serves as a reminder of the importance of perseverance, compassion, and firm determination.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to radically reinvent the way we do business. This study explores how CEOs and top decision makers around the world are responding to the transformative potential of AI.
The Team Member and Guest Experience - Lead and Take Care of your restaurant team. They are the people closest to and delivering Hospitality to your paying Guests!
Make the call, and we can assist you.
408-784-7371
Foodservice Consulting + Design
Modern Database Management 12th Global Edition by Hoffer solution manual.docxssuserf63bd7
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Focusing on what leading database practitioners say are the most important aspects to database development, Modern Database Management presents sound pedagogy, and topics that are critical for the practical success of database professionals. The 12th Edition further facilitates learning with illustrations that clarify important concepts and new media resources that make some of the more challenging material more engaging. Also included are general updates and expanded material in the areas undergoing rapid change due to improved managerial practices, database design tools and methodologies, and database technology.
1. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
Driving conversations towards
More happiness
2. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
Hans Demeyer
Ghent – Belgium
Supplier of Optimism & Inspiration
• Personal mastery coach
• Conversation Stylist
• Entrepreneur
• Systemic NLP master practicioner
• +20y married
• 3 kids
• Music, guitar, piano, travel, boats, horses, cars,
motorbikes, gadgets, …
• Linkedin.com/in/hansdemeyer
• Facebook.com/MrOptimism
• @suppl_of_optim
About your source of inspiration
3. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
Driving conversations to happiness – Day 1
• 9:30 – the mind rules the body
• 10:00 – score method
• 10:30 – logical levels
• The goal, your goal, the common goal, the destination, the holiday
• The people involved
• What matters to the people
• What they know or not know, use or not yet use (Uc, UI, CI, CC)
• What they do
• Where and when it occurs
• 11:30 – understanding the business challenges (business model canvas)
• 12:30 – stories and metaphors
• 15:00 – the art of asking questions
• 16:00 – deal with difficult customers
• Slow
• Emotion
4. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
Driving conversations to happiness - Day 2
• 9:30 – intro and recap of day 1 highlights
• 10:00 – manage your mental state
• 10:30 – the theory applied in practice :
• Intro
• sharing the value of
• Office 365 (11:00-12:15)
• Azure (12:15-13:30)
• EM+S (13:30-14:00/15:00-15:30)
• Dynamics CRM (15:30-16:30)
16:30 : check out – q&a – fill your personal toolbox
17:00 : end
5. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
Driving conversations to happiness - Day 2
Way to go :
• Workload (O365, Azure, Em+s, dynamics)
• Discuss and write down the value and the effect of the workload (flip chart)
• Role plays
• Open the conversation
• Challenge the customer, discover the emotional happiness trigger
• Bridge to the value proposition
• Check the state of the customer
• Explain the value and the effect
• Close
6. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
System
Unconsciously
incompetent
Consciously
incompetent
Consciously
competent
Unconsciously
competent
Unconsciously
incompetent
Consciously
incompetent
Consciously
competent
Unconsciously
competent
you other
Goal
Role
Values
Knowledge
Actions
Environment
Goal
Role
Values
Knowledge
Actions
Environment
Interaction
Feedback
Goal
Representation
Modalities
Submodalities
Meta-sins
Communication at a glance
7. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
The mindset makes the difference
Are you a coach inspiring future
ambassadors towards the best
experience
Are you a sales person
trying to sell the best
features to a customer?
or
8. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
Trigger happiness when you want it
• Sit back and relax
• Go back to a moment where you felt at your best
• Relive the moment
• Find where you feel you empowerment
• Materialize the sensation
• Take the sensation in your hands, what does it feel like?
Stretch it, make it big, how do you feel? Make it bigger. What
happens with you?
• Anchor the sensation
• Relive the sensation
• Anchor again
• Get back to now, to here
• Test the anchor
9. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
Raise your SCORE
S C O R E
Symptoms Causes Outcome Resource Effect
What is your current
situation and how would
you rate it on a scale of 10
What would it take to add
0,5 points to that score?
Where do you want to go
to with your organisation?
Suppose you wake up
tomorrow and everything
is exactly how you’d like
it. What has happened
over night?
How will you feel when
everything is going the
way you planned?
Questions about current
situation, what works
well, what could be
better, what is used, …
Questions to understand
why the customer wants
to change
Questions about what the
customer wants with the
new solution
Questions to learn if the
customer has a solution in
mind or opinions about
brands and types
Questions to make the
customer think about the
(emo) impact the new
situation will have
10. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
Customer decision process
11. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
The destination = the effect of a product
EMO
The answer to questions including :
- How will you feel if things go the way you plan?
- How important is it to you to have and keep
happy customers/employees?
- …
12. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
The journey = the product
RATIO
The information on the solutions, how to get them,
learn them, migrate, …
13. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
What we want to understand (logical levels)
goal
people
values
Knowledge, resources
actions
Time and place
Questions per level
Where do you want to be in xx years
Where do you want to take the company?
How will your role evolve? How will coworkers,
customers, etc… be impacted by your ambitions?
What is important to you now and how will this change
on the way to the destination?
Will your current tools allow you to realize the
ambitions? What challenges do you see?
Will you still be doing what you do in xx years? How will
this affect the other levels?
Will you/your customers/contractors/… still be in the
same places?
14. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
When your customer replies :
• there is information they do not
share because they assume you
know, or you will deduct. (delete)
• they may attach other meanings to
a word than we do (deform)
• they may express beliefs based on a
single event (generalize)
15. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
The art of listening : SLOW
0. You have asked a question. Your customer replies and deletes,
deforms and generalizes. Here is what you do :
S L O W
1. Stop : listen and repeat what your customer said
2. Land : while repeating, isolate the elements you can re-use
3. Options : decide whether you will re-use the isolated element(s) in
a next question or as a basis to add new parts of information
4. Way 2 Go : do it and go back to 0
16. (c) 2016 – Hans Demeyer
SLOW : example 1/2
• Customer : we have just started building our own datacenter. So the cloud
is not an option.
• You :
• STOP : you repeat and scan for missing info, generalized info or potentially deformed
info.
• LAND : mentally list the items
• Missing :
• We : who is this?
• Just started : when exactly?
• Why : why an own datacenter?
• Deform :
• Cloud : can you be more specific what part of the cloud?
• Option : what do you mean with ‘not an option’
• Generalize
• Not an option : never?
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SLOW : example 2/2
• You :
• OPTIONS : what can I challenge and in what way can I do
it?
• Missing :
• We : who is this?
• Just started : when exactly?
• Why : why an own datacenter?
• Deform :
• Cloud : can you be more specific what part of the cloud?
• Option : what do you mean with ‘not an option’
• Generalize
• Not an option : never?
• Way to go : pick one question that will bring you closer to
the desired outcome and effect
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Re-invent your questions
• What do you use now?
• What do you like about it?
• If there is one thing you’d like to change, what
would it be?
• Describe the ideal situation for you?
• If you’d have to give points to your current ICT on
a scale of 10, how much would you give?
• What would it take to add half a point to that
score?
• What would you like to do more?
• What would you like to do less?
• What drives your happiness?
• How important is it for you to be happy?
• How would you feel if...?
• If there was one thing I could do for you, what
would it be
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Handling objections
Yes but....
Interesting and….
What gives your the feeling it is like that?
…. Compared to what?
What happened that makes you feel like you do
about this?
Have there been occasions when it was not like
you feel, say?
Could you be a little more specific about…. ?
If there was one thing that could make you change
your feeling, what would it be?
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Examples of do nots
Be polite but not too tentative. Avoid
certain phrases and words
• I don’t know if you ….
• It is not a problem
• Maybe you are interested in….
• This could maybe be something for you…
• Do you think I can maybe pack one for
you?
• Don’t interrogate your customer.
Talk with them
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Some outside the box Tips & tricks
• I am happy I’m calling you at a suited moment
• My name is Batman from Robin Ltd, Good morning.
WAIT FOR REACTION
• My Colleagues and I are constantly guiding people who work with
computers en technology to their next level of happiness. How happy
are you today?
• I call to evaluate with you whether our companies can be meaningful
to one another.
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Some outside the box Tips & tricks
• If the ideal world would get a 10/10, how is the score of your world?
• What would it take to raise the score with half a point?
• C:“we are not really interested” –
• Y:”interesting to hear. If you say ‘not interested’ is it like in not now
because we have other priorities or not now because I don’t really
have time now ?”
• Take the lead: “how about meeting next Monday Afternoon?”
• Replace ‘would you be interested in…?’ by “I am sure you’ll be
interested in…”
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Some outside the box Tips & tricks
• Make sure you are aligned: so I understand correctly that you….
• Use references : I have been talking with quite some people like you
and they all were very happy after the conversation
• How does that make you feel?
• What do you think about it?
• What do you plan to do about it ?
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Value
proposition
When did the latest
big change occur in
your activities?
How did you deal with
it?
Activities
The immense list of
activities executed on all
levels to achieve the goals
Partners
What do they
outsource today and
in the future?
Customers
Who are your
customers? What will
change in the coming
years? How will you
cope with this?
Are happy customers
important to you?
Cost Revenue
Resources
The immense list of
resources used on all
levels to achieve the
goals
CRM
How do you keep your
customers happy and
loyal?
Channel
How do you inform your
customers?
How easy is it for your
customers to do business
with you?
The Business Model Canvas as source of inspiration
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The workshops
Outcome and effects
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Mail : hans@suppliersofoptimism.com – Mobiel : +32 496163301 – www.suppliersofoptimism.com
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Editor's Notes
Value selling is een beetje zoals vakantie plannen. Je begint met de bestemming, met het gevoel dat je wil beleven, de dingen die je wil doen, meemaken op de bestemming. Dan kies je een bestemming die past bij dat gevoel en dan
Pas plan je het process. De vluchten, de te kleine zitplaatsen op het vliegtuig, de baggage, check in’s, etc….
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