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No matter what you do, whether you are a product designer, an executive, an entrepreneur, or a preacher, if you develop the ability to sell your idea, your vision, your strategy, your product or service, or your company, the sky is the limit.
In this Strategic Persuasion Workshop our lead coach Scott Hindell shares his approach for selling your ideas and then gives you the tools to master influence.
It is a 4 weeks workshop with 4 online (live) sessions and asynchronous feedback and revisions from the coach. This is an intensive, personalized (you can bring your own case), and hands-on workshop.
You will learn how to communicate more effectively your idea, articulate and organize the elements of your idea to master influence and credibility.
The workshop includes a final Q&A session with Scott Hindell and Alessandro Marianantoni on a your specific case to transform the strategy into a (sales) funnel.
Salespeople, Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, Managers, Business Leaders, B2B Salespeople.
Including anyone that is interested in boosting tactics for Digital Marketing Sales Funnels, Sales calls, and also for Partnerships and Job interviews.
The 4 weeks Intensive Workshop
4.5 hours live training including Q&A
Online Resources
Projects/Tasks assignments and review
Individual feedback
Asynchronous followup on Slack
M Accelerator Certificate
cost: $500
discounts available for groups and our members.
Take our early Bird Offer until Sept 30th >> $300
We expect participants to attend our sessions and work on the assigned projects each week.
Weekly sessions on
Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30 AM PST
Participants work with us during the live sessions. Asyncrounous learning continues for Individual Feedback by our coaches.
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According to CSO Insights, salespeople who complete great sales training programs have 10% higher win rates :
"Assume you have a 100 person sales force, with each rep carrying a quota of $1M, selling products with an average deal size of $50K. Factoring in 10% increase in sales the results are a revenue increase of $20M".
Coaches share proven strategies and techniques and tailor the sessions to address the most urgent and important issues facing you and your peers.
Understanding how to use persuasion is fundamental for business founders that, more than others, are wearing many hats. This program is also for startup founders that need to boost communication and persuasion skills for:
In our group sessions the coach will guide you through a series of steps to integrate strategic persuasion in your project.
Scott Hindell is Principal of Hindell Consulting where he specializes in human-centered business model design. His key role is to facilitate, for business and industry, the process of generating, developing and articulating innovative value strategies.
Recognized as a value innovation specialist, Scott has performed workshops, spoken at conferences and to groups in the United States and abroad, with participants from more than 80 countries. Notable examples of these include: Workshops - 25 CEOs and business leaders from the Chinese Productivity Center; and students and professors from several Chinese universities. Conferences - TEDx-UCLA; and California Restaurant Industry Conference. Groups – Ahmedabad Management Association, American Chamber of Commerce Japan; American Institute of Graphic Artists; and American Marketing Association.
Scott has over 30 years of teaching experience, and currently teaches a variety of disciplines for UCLA Extension (since 2001). He also leads the M Accelerator program for entrepreneurs and startups. Prior, he taught 10 years at Los Angeles Community College. The majority of his programs fall under the disciplines of business, management, entrepreneurship, design and global sustainability.
One of only a few selected instructors, Scott is a Master Teacher in UCLA Extension's Instructor Development Program (since 2005). His key role is facilitator of Instructor Orientations and the Instructor Round Table provided to over 2,000 instructors. He has also led other core workshops for the award winning program. Scott is the recipient of the 2018/19 UCLA Extension Distinguished Instructor Award.
Prior, Scott was a portfolio manager for 17 years. As a NASD Principal and Registered Investment Advisor he owned and operated his own firm for the last ten years of that period. Here he managed large equity and fixed income portfolios with a proprietary trading method he developed, which outperformed the S&P 500 9 out of 10 years with a lower beta. He also advised and managed venture capital investments and mergers during this period.
It is Scott’s deep understanding of multiple disciplines and relentless curiosity combined with his unique ability to recognize bias and facilitate objectivity that has distinguished his success in all of his efforts.
Alessandro Marianantoni is Exec. Director and Founder at M Accelerator and MEDIARS LLC in Los Angeles, offering programs to serve the Los Angeles Startup ecosystem providing students, early stage and later stage founders with skills to grow their startups.
He has designed and developed projects in different spaces: entertainment, engineering, architecture and healthcare, receiving public and private funding from a number of organizations including: UCLA, Google, Siemens, Marriott, Universal Studios, Disney, Amazon, Italian Government and the City of Pasadena.
Alessandro earned a degree in Computer Science from the University of L’Aquila, with a thesis on perceptual interfaces at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and Integrated Media System Center.
Over the years he has run numerous international programs including summer bootcamps and international research initiatives at UCLA and he is now directing M Accelerator and MEDIARS LLC.
