MC3 Flashcards

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Consultative Selling

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The process of exploring needs and demonstrating what is available to address them

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Need

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A desire to achieve or change something

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Basic flow of every Consultative Recruiting Conversation

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  • Build Rapport & Listen with Purpose (immediately and ongoing throughout every interaction)
  • Engage
  • Explore
  • Enable
  • Gain Commitment
  • Respond to Objections and Disinterest (at any point of the conversation)
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What are the 2 types of skills for success in MC3?

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  1. Effective Communications Skills

2. Consultative Selling Skills

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What are the 2 Effective Communications Skills?

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  1. Build Rapport

2. Listen w/Purpose

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Define Build Rapport

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Developing a relationship through interpersonal skills

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Why Build Rapport?

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To facilitate trust and honest exchange of information

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When to Build Rapport?

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Immediately and ongoing in any interactions.

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How to Build Rapport?

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  1. Demonstrate Corps Values
  2. Find Common Ground
  3. Match & Mirror
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What are potential “Wrong Turns” in regards to Build Rapport?

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  1. In appropriate Words
  2. Humor
  3. Sexual References
  4. Intimidation
  5. Sounding “Robotic”
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Define Listen w/Purpose

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Focusing attention to gather information and build relationships

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Why Listen w/Purpose?

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To ensure understanding

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When to Listen w/Purpose?

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Immediately and ongoing in any interaction

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How to Listen w/Purpose?

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Listen to Understand, listen for Facts and Feelings, Listen to Build Trust and Observe Body Language.

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How to listen to understand what a person is saying?

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Use open questions to clarify what a person is saying and use a close question to confirm your understanding.

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What are potential “Wrong Turns” in regards to Listening w/Purpose?

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  • Physical distractions
  • Personal Biases
  • Snap judgements
  • Thinking ahead
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Define Engage

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Opening the conversation

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Why to Engage?

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To align on an agenda and the value of the conversation

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When to engage?

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When it’s appropriate to start a consultative conversation

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How to Engage?

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  • Transition to Business

- State the Agenda and its Value and test for YES.

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How to Transition to Business?

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Use a positioning statement to let the person you are speaking to with your overall purpose, or that you’re moving on to a recruiting conversations or changing to a completely new topic

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What is the importance of stating the value of your agenda?

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This provides information about why the conversation will be valuable to the other person.

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What are potential “Wrong Turns” in regards to Engaging

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  • Sounding Robotic

- Engaging without Rapport

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Importance of Testing for Yes?

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This ensures that the person you are speaking with agrees with what has been said and is ready to move forward.

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Define Explore?

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Asking questions to understand needs and motivators

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Define a motivator?

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A force that can drive a need such as:

  • Circumstances (life situation, events, etc.)
  • Feelings (what a person care about, beliefs)
  • Goals (Assets, Accomplishments, Appearance)
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Define Priority Needs

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Needs that are powerful enough to drive action

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Why Explore

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To gain a comprehensive shared understanding of needs and motivators

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When to Explore?

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When you need to understand what someone wants and why they want it

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How to Explore?

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Use questions to Explore Needs and Motivators, Reflect on them and Test for Yes.

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Define Open Question?

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Allow you to gather information and encourage information sharing. Usually begin with phrases like:
“How do you feel about that…”
“Why is that important…”

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Define Closed Question

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Allows you to confirm your understanding of motivators and needs. Usually limits response to yes/no, obtains measurable facts and a choice among options you give.

33
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Define Need Clues?

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Include words or phrases that demonstrate a desire to achieve or change something.

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What is mean by Comprehensive and Shared Understanding?

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C-you understand all the needs and motivators, and priority needs
S-your understanding matches the other person’s

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What are potential “Wrong Turns” in regards to Exploring?

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  • Too many closed questions (Open/Closed can limit the information you gain)
  • Blind/Random questions (may seem to be going nowhere, or confusing)
  • Talking more than asking (One-sided)
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Define Enable

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Addressing needs and motivators with Marine Corps features and benefits.

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Define a feature?

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Is an identifiable characteristic of an organization or product.

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Define a Benefit?

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The specific value a feature provides to a person

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Why to Enable?

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To demonstrate how the Marine Corps can create the desired change

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When to Enable?

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When you fully understand a need and have a way to address it

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How to Enable?

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Align with the need, Demonstrate how relevant features and benefits meet the need & Test For Yes.

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What are potential “Wrong Turns” in regards to Enable?

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  • Features without benefits (what’s in it for me?)

- “Dump trucking” irrelevant features and benefits.

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Define Gain Commitment?

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Obtaining the most aggressive commitment possible

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Why Gain Commitment?

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To move the process forward

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When to Gain Commitment?

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When you have successfully Enabled and believe there is a willingness to commit.

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How to Gain Commitment?

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Summarize Priority Benefits, ask for a commitment, State next steps and Test For Yes.

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What are potential “Wrong Turns” in regards to Gain Commitment?

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  • Rehash the whole conversation
  • Summarizing features not benefits.
  • Asking for an easy commitment
  • Introducing new information
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How to Maintain Commitment

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  • Provide collaterals
  • refer to websites
  • Prepare applicant to speak to parents or other influencers
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How to Respond to Refusal?

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  • Ask questions to understand refusal
  • Restart the conversation if appropriate,or
  • Respect the Refusal and Preserve the Relationship.
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What is meant by Aggressive Commitment?

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A commitment that stretches the farthest while still being appropriate to the situation.

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Define Respond to Objections

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Responding to objections in a way that resolves them

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Why to Respond to Objections?

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To fully inform and to keep the sales process moving forward

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When to Respond to Objections?

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Anytime in the process that an objection comes up

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How to Respond to Objections?

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  • Ask questions to understand the objection
  • Respect the objection
  • Test for Yes
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What are potential “Wrong Turns” in regards to Respond to Objections?

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  • Not understanding the objection before trying to respond to it
  • Trying to tip the scales with the wrong benefits
  • Arguing
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Define Respond to Disinterest?

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Gaining agreement to have a conversation with someone who is disinterested

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Factors that cause Disinterest?

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  • Person may be content with their current circumstances or have future plans that are satisfactory.
  • They may have made other decisions that eliminate any reason to talk to you.
  • Their motivators are not currently strong enough to drive a priority need or to move them into action.
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Why to Respond to Disinterest?

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To motivate someone who is not interested in a conversation

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When to Respond to Disinterest?

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When the desire to achieve of change something is not apparent

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How to Respond to Disinterest?

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