Sales & Negotiation Training Case Study
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Building Builder-Channel Selling Capability Across Multiple Cities
A leading financial services organization was scaling its builder channel and transitioning teams from a DSA-driven model to a relationship-led selling approach. This shift required stronger customer conversations, deeper builder engagement and more confident negotiation especially when leads were shared through builders.
LeaderNovo was engaged to design and deliver a structured Sales & Negotiation capability program across four major cities, training hundreds of front-line and managerial participants.
The Sales Challenge
The organization needed consistent selling capability across locations, particularly in:
The gap was not effort. It was sales behaviour quality and consistency.
LeaderNovo’s Approach
LeaderNovo built the program around one principle: measure behaviour, improve behaviour.
We used a simple progression:
This kept the program practical, evidence-based and credible for the field.
The Intervention
The program focused on the capabilities most critical to builder-channel success:
- Cycle mastery: adapting conversations based on whether the leader is engaging a builder or converting a customer lead
- Professional presence: grooming, body language, credibility cues and executive confidence
- Product articulation: simplifying complex product information into customer-ready explanations
- Objection handling & negotiation: turning pushbacks into opportunities through structured role-play and feedback
- Relationship selling: active listening, empathy and long-term builder partnership behaviours
- Practice & review: repeat calls/meetings at the end of the program to demonstrate improvement versus baseline
Outcomes
Program reviews and field feedback indicated:
The intervention created a common selling standard across locations.
What Made the Difference
This worked because it relied on realistic scenarios, video-based feedback and deliberate practice not classroom theory. Participants could see their own patterns, correct them and re-perform in a controlled environment before applying the same behaviours in the field.
About LeaderNovo
LeaderNovo builds measurable capability through programs that combine diagnostic clarity, high-quality facilitation and sustained reinforcement. Our work spans leadership development, coaching, assessments and capability building for customer-facing teams.
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