This course teaches sales professionals how to coach buyers through complex decision processes where uncertainty, competing priorities and multiple stakeholders often slow progress. Building on the challenger-style foundations from Course 1, you will learn how to guide conversations that uncover hidden concerns and support customers as they evaluate competing options.

Sales Skills: Coach Buyers Through Complex Decisions

Sales Skills: Coach Buyers Through Complex Decisions
This course is part of Advanced Sales Training: Challenging, Coaching And Closing Specialization

Instructor: The Expert Academy
Access provided by ExxonMobil
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Intermediate level
Recommended experience
8 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
What you'll learn
Coach buyers through complex internal decision processes
Diagnose hesitation and prevent “no decision” outcomes
Align stakeholders and maintain momentum in complex deals
Skills you'll gain
- Employee Coaching
- Customer Relationship Building
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Decision Making
- Consultative Selling
- Stakeholder Management
- Self-Awareness
- Coaching
- Influencing
- Sales Process
- Empathy
- Active Listening
- B2B Sales
- Sales
- Rapport Building
- Solution Selling
- Closing (Sales)
- Empathy & Emotional Intelligence
- Emotional Intelligence
- Mental Health
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Assessments
8 assignments
Taught in English
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April 2026
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