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Most sales training fails professionals for a simple reason: it asks them to behave like someone else.
It asks credible, experienced professionals to adopt behaviours that feel unnatural. It separates “selling” from the work they’ve spent years mastering. And it delivers short bursts of enthusiasm that disappear the moment real client conversations begin again.
This TST perspective explores an alternative approach. One grounded in how professionals actually work, how clients actually make decisions, and why traditional methods to training client development so often fall flat for professional services.
An honest look at why conventional sales training fails in professional services environments, and the evidence-backed rationale for building capability through incremental, science-grounded behavioural change rather than one-off interventions
A walkthrough of the six heuristics that cover the full arc of professional services business development, the consistent learning structure used for each, and the flexible delivery formats available
A detailed look at four professional profiles for whom the approach is well suited, from senior professionals transitioning into more business development-facing roles, to organisations navigating a cultural resistance to selling
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