Conflict management for sales

Resolve conflicts - join forces - increase sales

This training is held in German.
You are the link between your customers and your own company. The expectations of both sometimes differ enormously. This harbors considerable potential for conflict when dealing with customers, colleagues and superiors. In sales, you are often exposed to conflict-laden situations that you have to resolve to the satisfaction of all parties involved. In this training course, you will learn how to approach and resolve conflicts professionally in your day-to-day sales work and how to remain confident in difficult situations.

Contents

sales persons - roles, tasks and responsibilities

  • Who are my potential (conflictpartners?
  • Successful together.
  • Priorities in sales - how to proactively avoid unnecessary conflicts.

Basics of communication, special features in distribution and sales

  • Factual and relationship level.
  • Establish and actively manage sustainable relationships with external and internal customers.
  • Recognize personality types and communicate in a customer-oriented way.

Recognizing and understanding conflicts - the basics of conflict management

  • Own attitude to conflicts.
  • Distinguish between different types of conflict.
  • Recognize and analyze potential conflicts.
  • Stages of escalation - avoiding conflict spirals.

Professional conflict management in sales: developing conflict strategies

  • The conflict resolution process.
  • Develop conflict resolution strategies.
  • Conflict management and resolution.
  • Self-reflection.

Conducting conflict discussions constructively

  • Practicing typical conflict situations with internal and external partners from your practice.
  • Conflicts due to customer complaints.
  • Sale of price increases and/or additional services.
  • Conflicts with external service providers.

Professional interviewing: interview structure and organization

  • Develop conflict resolution techniques and actively apply them in discussions.
  • Recognize the needs of those involved in the conflict.
  • Dealing with criticism and resistance.
  • Breaking down psychological barriers, maintaining emotional control in the conversation.
  • Make sustainable agreements.
  • Treatment of sales-specific practical cases.

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

Your benefit

In this training course, you will use numerous practical cases from sales and distribution and your own examples to practise how you can

  • Recognize and understand tensions at an early stage,
  • develop effective conflict resolution strategies,
  • Conduct conflict discussions actively and constructively,
  • use conversation techniques effectively and resolve conflicts and
  • reach sustainable agreements with your customers, colleagues and business partners .

Make your personal contribution to increasing sales and to the success of your company with the new insights you will gain from this training!

Methods

In-person events

Training situations based on practical cases from the participants, individual feedback, exercises/group work, discussion of examples, exchange of experiences, reflection, keynote speeches.

Live online events

Training situations based on practical cases from the participants, individual feedback, exercises/group work, discussion of examples, exchange of experience, reflection, keynote speeches.

Recommended for

sales persons, sales managers, key account managers and other sales-related employees who want to professionalize their conflict management or take on conflict-laden tasks in sales and distribution.

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Attendees comments

"I particularly liked the interactive design of the seminar, the good mix between theory and practice and the group size."

Julian Richter
Shopware AG

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02.09.2025
Berlin
Booking number: 5449
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centrovital Hotel
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Brauereihof 6, 13585 Berlin
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Tuesday, 02.09.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 03.09.2025

08:30 am - 4:30 pm

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

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09.12.2025
Frankfurt a. M./Oberursel
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elaya hotel frankfurt oberursel
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Zimmersmühlenweg 35, 61440 Frankfurt a. M./Oberursel
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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.

04.03.2026
Munich
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Inselkammerstraße 7-9, 82008 Munich
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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

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