Solution selling: Focus on the solution for customers
Successfully selling products and services that require explanation
Contents
Basics of solution selling
- The elements of successful solution selling at a glance.
- Knowing and mastering the special challenges.
- Solution sales vs. product sales - How to choose the right strategy.
The elements of the needs analysis
- Analyze needs and identify your customers' pain points.
- Questioning techniques for value-oriented needs analysis.
- Designing attractive and customized solutions.
Professional negotiation technique
- The Harvard negotiation concept.
- Negotiating in solution sales - understanding the interests.
- Develop solution variants and thus options.
Generate added value for the: customer
- What added value is relevant for the customer?
- The KANO model: standard, profiling and future services.
- Personalized added value.
Objection handling
- A frequent objection: the price.
- Methods for dealing with objections.
- Answering objections with questions.
Opportunity management - success can be planned
- Selection and prioritization of projects and customers.
- Determining the appropriate processing strategy.
- Ideal:r customer vs. red flag.
Buying center analysis (DMU analysis)
- Role concepts - so that you talk to the right people.
- Political analysis - reaching the approvers in the background.
- Understanding and utilizing the wishes and motives of decision makers .
Value selling: selling through added value
- What is added value?
- Communication of added value.
- Feature-Function-Benefit.
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
If when selling your services
- sales cycles typically last 6 to 35 months,
- these services are offered on a highly individualized basis,
- procurement has an impact on your customers' business activities,
- usually several decision makers decide together,
- you experience non-transparent decision-making processes and
- the investments are usually considerable,
then this training course will provide you with important suggestions for significantly more efficiency and effectiveness in your sales work and thus lay the foundation for noticeably more sales.
Methods
Practice-oriented training with exercises, discussion of case/best-practice examples, exchange of experience, work aids, checklists and trainer input. You will receive direct feedback to help you progress.
Recommended for
Specialists and (junior) managers from distribution and sales, from field sales and office sales, account managers, key account managers, sales managers, consultants with acquisition assignments as area managers and other sales-related employees who sell complex products that require explanation, such as machines, systems or services, such as software and consulting, even more successfully.
Questions about the training content
Solution Selling focuses not on individual products or services, but on the specific challenges faced by customers. In this training, you’ll learn how to systematically analyze requirements and create customized proposals. This approach will help you master difficult sales situations, especially when dealing with services that require explanation.
Complex sales processes require a clear structure so that opportunities can be assessed realistically. In this training, you’ll develop strategies to prepare for decisions in a more targeted way and better prioritize sales opportunities. This will make your forecasting more reliable and help you achieve more sustainable sales.
In this training session, you’ll learn which values really matter to different target audiences. You’ll discover how to distinguish between standard offerings and those that truly set you apart, and use the KANO model to gain insight into future requirements. This will enable you to tailor your offerings precisely to market expectations.
With the value-selling approach, you shift your perspective: You learn to frame your arguments from a purely customer-centric viewpoint. Using the feature-function-benefit method, you translate raw product features into real, tangible benefits. This allows you to make more persuasive arguments and present your offerings in a way that’s easier to understand.
Price objections are among the most common challenges in sales. In this training, you’ll learn techniques for moving conversations forward in a constructive way. You’ll learn how not to immediately counter, but use targeted questions to uncover the real background and successfully defend the price.
You’ll gain greater confidence in handling challenging client meetings and negotiations. During the training, you’ll learn to better assess the various roles within the buying center and address them in a targeted manner. This will enable you to prepare for client meetings in a more structured way and manage sales processes more professionally.
This training focuses on practical application. You’ll work with real-life examples from your day-to-day sales work and practice the new methods in a safe environment. This way, you’ll walk away with ready-to-use tools that you can apply directly with your customers.
Why the method brings more success!
Selling complex solutions requires a system: Solution Selling.
In our Solution Selling training, salespeople learn how to use the method and get to grips with it. In addition to the safe application of the method, salespeople learn how to use it in a targeted manner training Solution Selling provides security in the sales forecast. A reliable forecast is always a plus.
If salespeople use this set of methods, they will recognize the customer's needs more easily. Only when they know this can they develop solutions - like a coach.
Salespeople who use Solution Selling elements will recognize the following effects in particular:
1. salespeople get a grip on complexity.
2. customers feel better understood and gain trust.
3. salespeople will be able to recognize and use the decision-makers and their roles
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This will winyou more orders.
The Haufe Akademie 's Solution Selling Training is based on the idea: From practice, for practice.
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- Customized training courses
- Direct application in practice
- Efficient use of time and resources
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Start dates and details

Thursday, 10.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 11.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Monday, 14.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 15.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Monday, 01.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 02.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Wednesday, May 12, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, May 13, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, September 9, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, September 10, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.