Date: February 4 to 5, 2017
Venue:  Lovely Professional University, Phagwara                  

Background & Rationale

Workshop on ‘Selling Skills and Negotiation’, a Corporate Training Program was organised at Lovely Professional University for staff members of Outdoor Catalyst Media Services Pvt Ltd. Mr. Sarbjit Singh Kwatra, Assistant Director and Mr. Ajay Kumar Sharma, Assistant Professor, Lovely Professional University were the key facilitators.

The program focused on capacity building for business development. It also focused on importance of  Digital Marketing in business development. Through experiential learning participants learned about Negotiation skills of an effective sales person. The schedule carried a multi-pronged approach that included inputs, group discussions, Audio Video based and situational analysis, Role Plays and finally presentations by the participants illustrating their findings.

The Focus pointers were:

  • Context Setting and Introduction to Selling Skills
  • The FAB Approach
  • Objection Handling
  • Mistakes Salesperson make
  • The principles of negotiation
  • The Win-win Approach
  • The role and intervention of Digital Marketing in Business Development

The program received active participation of staff members from Outdoor Catalyst Media Services Pvt Ltd. The participants were appreciative of the gesture shown by the University in terms of choice of Subject Matter Experts, appropriate learning environment, venue setting, infrastructure, study tours and content delivery. They were also impressed by the subject expertise of the resource persons. The participants observed that the program was outcome oriented and gave them new insights on the topic. It was crafted to meet the training needs stated by the client. LPU-HRDC is committed to providing tailor made Professional Development Programs for the corporate sector. These training programs also help in strengthening industry-academia relations thus opening new vistas of mutual collaboration.