What you'll learn

Length: 4 min
How can a salesperson get ahead in a world where the customer already has all the information they need?

Length: 9 min
Sales developments over the years have created the perfect moment for The Challenger.

Length: 5 min
All salespeople fall into one of five profiles, and for complex sales, one of those profiles towers over the others.

Length: 9 min
The Challenger gets ahead through teaching, tailoring, and taking control.

Length: 6 min
In order to make a complex sale, you must have effective commercial insight.

Length: 6 min
The Challenger's sales pitch consists of six steps.

Length: 6 min
To turn your team into Challengers, it takes the backing of the entire organization.

Length: 2 min
The Challenger Method is not just for salespeople.
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More about The Challenger Sale
What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships-and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them.The need to understand what top-performing reps are doing that their average performing colleagues are not drove Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at Corporate Executive Board to investigate the skills, behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes that matter most for high performance. And what they discovered may be the biggest shock to conventional sales wisdom in decades.Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies, The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. The authors' study found that every sales rep in the world falls into one of five distinct profiles, and while all of these types of reps can deliver average sales performance, only one-the Challenger- delivers consistently high performance.Instead of bludgeoning customers with endless facts and features about their company and products, Challengers approach customers with unique insights about how they can save or make money. They tailor their sales message to the customer's specific needs and objectives. Rather than acquiescing to the customer's every demand or objection, they are assertive, pushing back when necessary and taking control of the sale.The things that make Challengers unique are replicable and teachable to the average sales rep. Once you understand how to identify the Challengers in your organization, you can model their approach and embed it throughout your sales force. The authors explain how almost any average-performing rep, once equipped with the right tools, can successfully reframe customers' expectations and deliver a distinctive purchase experience that drives higher levels of customer loyalty and, ultimately, greater growth.