Basic training in distribution and sales

The basics for sales beginners

This training is held in German.
Would you like to be optimally prepared for the exciting tasks of a professional salesperson? This training course will lay the foundations for your sales success. You will learn about the key tasks involved in the sales process and how to organize yourself. You will develop important tools and working techniques so that you can conduct sales talks in an active and customer-oriented manner. This will increase your chances of closing deals and achieve your sales targets more effectively.

Contents

Basics

  • Differentiation: distribution and sales.
  • Distribution and sales strategies.
  • AI in the sales and distribution process.

Self-organization for sales persons

  • Plan and organize your day-to-day sales professionally.
  • Target and priority management as a prerequisite for sales success.
  • Effective customer processing and an increase in "sales-active time".

Communication and sales psychology

  • Competencies as a "target profile": requirements in personal selling.
  • Motivation factor "basic mental attitude".
  • GRID behavioral grid: basic positions, attitudes and win-win strategy.
  • Human orientation versus factual orientation.
  • Empathy and adaptability: concept of "customer typology".

Conducting target-oriented sales talks

  • Methodical preparation for customer contact.
  • Guidelines for the sales and advisory meeting.
  • Telephone contact (making appointments etc.).
  • Opening the conversation: Building a positive relationship.
  • Body language: non-verbal signals in dialog and personal impact.
  • Needs and motive analysis: questioning technique and active listening.
  • Active sales conversations and effective presentations.
  • Sales rhetoric, customer-oriented communication.
  • Advantage and benefit argumentation.
  • Argumentation in dealing with objections.
  • Active (conversation/sales) closing techniques.
  • Important measures after the sales talk.

Offer management

  • Pre-offer discussion, offer preparation and offer tracking.

Mastering special situations

  • Behavior in complaint and grievance meetings.
  • Customer recovery: Activation of inactive customers.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You will learn the essential tasks involved in the sales process and how to organize yourself.
  • You will train conversation and argumentation techniques for customer-oriented and sales-active communication.
  • You will gain confidence in dealing with different types of customers and learn how to behave professionally and competently.
  • You increase your efficiency and effectiveness in your sales activities and thus also the rate of sales closures.
  • You will receive numerous concrete practical tips, checklists and tools to support you in your daily sales work.

Methods

The findings from the case studies are translated into the participants' sales practice through the use of checklists. In order to increase the learning success, there is an alternation of group work, role plays and individual work, trainer feedback, short presentations and discussion.

Recommended for

newcomers to sales, career changers, sales engineers and sales technicians . sales persons in the field and inside salespeople with little or no practical experience and practitioners who want to optimize their sales activities.

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Attendees comments

"Great division between presentation and interactive group work."

Sebastian Winkler
time:matters GmbH

"I particularly liked the fact that the open and uncomplicated manner made learning easy and sustainable. The group work was always entertaining but appropriate and the content was conveyed really well."

Robert Schulze
Badischer Winzerkeller eG

"I learned a lot and the atmosphere was very good. I would book the next course straight away!"

Alessa Hartmann
Etex Germany Exteriors GmbH

"I particularly liked the small group and that our trainer was very professional."

Erkan Cicek
Witt gas technology

"The group of participants was small and this created a good discussion group."

Kai Dewald
BC Restoration Products

Seminar evaluation for "Basic training in sales and distribution"

4.7 from 5
with 505 ratings
training content:
4.6
Content comprehensibility:
4.8
Practical relevance:
4.5
Trainer expertise:
4.9
Participant orientation:
4.8
Method variety:
4.8
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26.06.2025
Düsseldorf
Booking number: 2799
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Derag Livinghotel
Derag Livinghotel
Kirchfeldstraße 59-61, 40217 Düsseldorf
Room rate: € 119,15 plus VAT.
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2 days
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Thursday, 26.06.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, 27.06.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

15.07.2025
Stuttgart
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Pullman Fontana
Pullman Fontana
Vollmoellerstrasse 5, 70563 Stuttgart
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Tuesday, 15.07.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 16.07.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

21.08.2025
Hamburg
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Leonardo Hotel Hamburg City Nord
Leonardo Hotel Hamburg City Nord
Mexikoring 1, 22297 Hamburg
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Thursday, 21.08.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, 22.08.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

17.09.2025
Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach
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Best Western Macrander Hotel Kaiserlei
Best Western Macrander Hotel Kaiserlei
Strahlenberger Straße 12, 63067 Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach
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Wednesday, 17.09.2025

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Thursday, 18.09.2025

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  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

21.10.2025
Munich
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Holiday Inn Unterhaching
Holiday Inn Unterhaching
Inselkammerstraße 7-9, 82008 Munich
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Tuesday, 21.10.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 22.10.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

11.11.2025
Düsseldorf
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Novotel City West
Novotel City West
Niederkasseler Lohweg 179, 40547 Düsseldorf
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Tuesday, 11.11.2025

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Wednesday, 12.11.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

27.11.2025
Berlin
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Hyperion Hotel Berlin
Hyperion Hotel Berlin
Prager Straße 12, 10779 Berlin
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Thursday, 27.11.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, 28.11.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

11.12.2025
Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach
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Leonardo Hotel Offenbach Frankfurt
Leonardo Hotel Offenbach Frankfurt
Kaiserleistraße 39, 63067 Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach
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Thursday, 11.12.2025

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  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

29.01.2026
Munich
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Holiday Inn Unterhaching
Holiday Inn Unterhaching
Inselkammerstraße 7-9, 82008 Munich
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Thursday, 29.01.2026

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Friday, 30.01.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

11.02.2026
Frankfurt a. M./Bad Nauheim
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DOLCE Hotels & Resorts Bad Nauheim
DOLCE Hotels & Resorts Bad Nauheim
Elvis-Presley-Platz 1, 61231 Frankfurt a. M./Bad Nauheim
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Wednesday, 11.02.2026

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Thursday, 12.02.2026

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  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

24.03.2026
Berlin
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RIU Plaza
RIU Plaza
Martin-Luther-Straße 1, 10777 Berlin
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Tuesday, 24.03.2026

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Wednesday, 25.03.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

16.04.2026
Düsseldorf
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Novotel City West
Novotel City West
Niederkasseler Lohweg 179, 40547 Düsseldorf
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Thursday, 16.04.2026

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09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

06.05.2026
Hamburg
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Novotel Hamburg Alster
Novotel Hamburg Alster
Lübecker Straße 3, 22087 Hamburg
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Wednesday, 06.05.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 07.05.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

21.05.2026
Stuttgart
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Mercure Hotel Stuttgart Airport Messe
Mercure Hotel Stuttgart Airport Messe
Eichwiesenring 1/1, 70567 Stuttgart
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Thursday, 21.05.2026

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Friday, 22.05.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

16.06.2026
Berlin
Booking number: 2799
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RIU Plaza
RIU Plaza
Martin-Luther-Straße 1, 10777 Berlin
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Tuesday, 16.06.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 17.06.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
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  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

15.07.2026
Mannheim
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Dorint Kongresshotel
Dorint Congress Hotel
Friedrichsring 6, 68161 Mannheim
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Wednesday, 15.07.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 16.07.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

30.07.2026
Hamburg
Booking number: 2799
€ 1.590,- plus VAT.
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Venue
Mercure Hotel Hamburg City
Mercure Hotel Hamburg City
Amsinckstraße 53, 20097 Hamburg
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Thursday, 30.07.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, 31.07.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

03.09.2026
Düsseldorf
Booking number: 2799
€ 1.590,- plus VAT.
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Venue
Novotel City West
Novotel City West
Niederkasseler Lohweg 179, 40547 Düsseldorf
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Thursday, 03.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, 04.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
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  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

08.09.2026
Munich
Booking number: 2799
€ 1.590,- plus VAT.
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Venue
Holiday Inn Leuchtenbergring München
Holiday Inn Leuchtenbergring Munich
Leuchtenbergring 20, 81677 Munich
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Tuesday, 08.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 09.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

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  • extensive working documents.

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