Authentic selling: with personality and confidence to success

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This training is held in German.
In this training , you training your sales skills by improving your personal presence and communication techniques. You’ll learn how to build and maintain long-term, sustainable customer relationships through authenticity and a confident demeanor. The goal is to expand your ability to understand customer needs and successfully conduct sales conversations. This training you enhance your uniqueness in customer interactions and sustainably improve your sales results. New in this training: Authenticity isn’t just a soft skill—it’s your strongest competitive advantage. And AI isn’t at odds with this: It helps you express your true personality even more precisely through language and demeanor. In this training how to use AI to communicate more authentically, individually, and effectively—not to replace you, but to showcase more of who you are.

Contents

The first impression

  • Mail etiquette and dealing with social media contacts.
  • Building a Social Media Presence—Authentically and with AI Support: How to design your profile so that it truly reflects who you are, rather than being a generic, polished version of yourself. AI helps you find wording that matches your personality and analyze your profile for impact.
  • The importance of body language, a firm handshake and a well-groomed appearance.

Personal contact

  • Recognize your own strengths and customer expectations.
  • Recognize and define your own USP.
  • AI as a Mirror: Use AI tools live during training to refine your USP—through structured reflection questions, alternative phrasing, and comparing how you come across versus how you want to come across.
  • Conduct needs and potential analyses elegantly in conversation.
  • Mastering small talk with skillful topic selection, dealing with sensitive issues.
  • The perfect elevator pitch.
  • Develop and refine your elevator pitch with AI: You bring your own version, and AI helps you get to the point while still staying 100% true to yourself.
  • Leading/Pacing.

Binding communication

  • Communication tailored to the channel and at an appropriate pace.
  • Methods for effective follow-up and unobtrusive customer care.
  • Processing of product features to arouse buying interest.
  • Individual customer service strategies.
  • Tailored Communication with AI—Personalized Yet Authentic: Live Demo in training: How to use AI to tailor customer communications to the specific contact, situation, and channel without making the text sound generic or impersonal.
  • Consistency Between Your Online Presence and In-Person Interactions: How to Ensure That the Impression You Make Digitally Matches What Customers Experience in Person.

Effective customer acquisition and care

  • Building and maintaining customer relationships to increase sales.
  • Acquiring new customers for your business.
  • Etiquette for customer invitations.
  • Recognize and leverage your authenticity as a unique selling point.
  • AI-powered preparation for client meetings: Research on the client, the company, and the industry in minutes instead of hours. This way, you’ll go into the meeting informed, prepared, and attentive—a strong sign of appreciation and professionalism.

Unpleasant conversations with customers

  • Develop strategies for effective complaint handling.
  • Strategies for confident customer recovery.
  • Use your strengths to build strong customer relationships.
  • Authenticity in Challenging Moments: Genuine personality is crucial, especially during conflict and complaint discussions. We’ll practice how you can stay true to yourself even under pressure, thereby building trust rather than losing it.

 

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You learn how to recognize your own strengths and customer expectations.
  • You recognize and use your authenticity as a unique sales advantage and thus represent your brand confidently and convincingly.
  • You will learn how to focus on building and maintaining customer relationships to increase sales.
  • You will learn how to manage discussions and decision-making processes effectively.
  • You will receive individual feedback and train on your own topics in order to develop suitable solutions for yourself.
  • You'll experience firsthand how AI makes your communication more personalized and effective—not by diluting your personality, but by enhancing it.
  • You'll go home with specific AI tools that you can immediately integrate into your daily sales routine: for preparing for conversations, approaching prospects, and presenting yourself professionally.

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Methods

In addition to expert input, practical tips, checklists, and many real-world examples, there’s plenty of opportunity to practice your own real-life scenarios in individual and group exercises with personalized feedback. Participants will work on their own topics and questions drawn from their professional experience. Live demos with AI tools: refining your elevator pitch, personalizing customer communication, and analyzing and optimizing social media profiles. All AI exercises are designed to enhance authenticity.

Recommended for

newcomers sales, career changers, sales engineers, and technicians ; sales persons and sales persons with little or no practical experience; and practitioners who want to optimize their sales performance.

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20.07.2026
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