If life deals you lemons, make lemonade.

For those of you who’ve been on one of our courses, you’ll know that we are particularly partial to lemons and the clenching thereof. (Confused? Give us a call and we’ll explain it all.)
The global economy is definitely sucking lemons at the moment and everyone is looking for ways to grow their business despite the recession. Here at Partners With You we know that the global downturn means that delivering sales is even more important than usual so this issue of our newsletter is dedicated to giving you some advice on how to sell more effectively.
And what’s even better, if you have 5 – 249 members of staff (including volunteers), you could get £500 worth of training for free thanks to the Train To Gain Leadership & Management programme: see below for more details.
We hope you enjoy reading our newsletter and we’d love to hear your feedback if you have a moment while you’re sipping your lemonade....

£500 WORTH OF TRAINING FOR FREE!
£1,500 WORTH OF TRAINING FOR £500!
Through the Train to Gain Leadership & Management programme, you can get funding to help develop your and your team’s skills if you have between 5 – 249 staff or volunteers. The bottom line is that you can get £500 of training free. The next £500 is matched
- so £1,500 worth of staff development will only cost you £500 or £1,250 worth of sales training will cost you £375.
You can use it for any of our innovative training programmes to benefit you and your business. By using the skills...
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The proof is in the (lemon) pudding
Successful communication is a skill which everyone who works with other people can benefit from. Here’s how two of our clients from very different industries have benefited from their training sessions with us:
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MJP Architects
Imagine this situation: you know that your team have excellent skills and experience but are simply not natural communicators. Your architectural practice is known for high quality design, creativity and prominent projects in housing, workplace and education
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NB Real Estate
NB Real Estates are specialists in commercial property management, acquisitions, sales and property leasing and are placed in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For 2009 list. They have 100 million square feet of property assets |
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Squeezing more from your sales |
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Making a sale boils down to convincing the other party that your offer is the best available match to their needs. You can have the best deal in the world with a top class customer service package to back it up but if you don’t communicate these facts successfully and quickly build a rapport, you won’t close the sale.
Telling a story and creating an image are two powerful tools to help make your business communication more successful. Having a point of difference in a competitive market place can be invaluable and helping sales people come across as natural communicators talking as one human to another is a simple way to achieve this. After a...
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Forthcoming public courses 2009 |
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If you’d like to find out about what you
can do with a lemon to help you relax and
communicate more successfully, come along
to one of our open courses
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