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DISC is an acronym for the brain’s computer software programming system that the person’s mind will “always” use throughout its lifetime to analyze things for idea acceptance or rejection purposes, i.e., decision-making. In order to understand the way another person’s mind naturally functions, a basic foundational understanding of DISC and how it works is required.

That’s because of the hierarchical order and structural placement (the arrangement and overall percentage) that each of these four DISC archetypal character entities plays dominance-wise within the other person’s mind as to the way that other person sees, thinks, reasons, and perceives whenever processing thought.

The Temperament Selling Sales Training Program is a proven, quick-study program designed and tailored specifically to and for the selling and sales training industry. The curriculum’s two-pronged fast-track approach to learning (simply read a book and take a tutorial) quickly teaches the salesperson how to blend the science of academically-based DISC intellect profiling into any traditional step selling methodology they may be using.

The process is totally seamless and absolutely undetectable by the customer. All learning is easily accomplished within a few hours of study, giving the trainee the permanent people-skills competency and psychological selling skill set of a 15-year accomplished sales veteran.

The research behind this project began years ago in direct response to a challenge issued by the dean of Yale University’s School of Psychology. He and three other noted Ph.D. psychologists had just finished a three-and-a-half-hour lecture on the inherent and innate power DISC imposes upon the human mind as to the way we as humans see, think, and perceive things as we make our way through life. The lecture was given to an auditorium filled with over 4,500 Northwestern Mutual life insurance agents attending their annual sales training conference.

That challenge spawned a 20+ year research study involving over 3,000 retail customers, each profiled in accordance with strict, standard academic and medical protocol to ensure the consistency and integrity of the data. That 20-year research study is the basis of this training program.

The goal of the study was to confirm or deny the commonly held belief among academic psychologists as to the existence of a direct conduit linkage relationship between a person’s observable external DISC behavioral “tells” system and current and ongoing university-documented DISC profiling studies. And if confirmed, could these patterned “tell” tendencies allow someone to successfully predict, within reasonable statistical parameters, the exact way and how another person’s mind would pattern their thinking and reasoning whenever faced with a meaningful buying decision?

Statistically, the study conclusively found that there does indeed exist a better than 95% probability/predictability factor between a person’s observable external DISC behavior “tells system” and academically accepted DISC intellect profiling studies. This extraordinarily high probability statistical factor proves, at least for selling and sales training purposes, that there is, in fact, a direct mental conduit linkage relationship between one’s internal DISC intellect behavior (thinking process) and their external DISC behavior, i.e., personality.

In light of this finding, psychological sales templates were developed and tested for all 12 of the DISC partnership combinations. Studies conclusively proved, in accordance with the 95% predictability factor, that only 8 of the 12 DISC intellect structural combinations were able to produce a “right-then” buy.

This led to the development of psychological recipes (sales templates) designed for each of the 12 that created “right-then” buy-in by using that individual’s two largest offsetting temperament types. This knowledge allowed us to create, for the first time, a truly effective and chartable recipe approach to selling.

Central to the success of this effort is the program’s ability to successfully teach the frontline salesperson how to correctly recognize and utilize DISC as an intellectual sales tool or psychological device for creating buy-in. This, in turn, as mentioned earlier, led to the breakthrough discovery of The Brain Funnel Theory that allows the salesperson to temporarily re-configure/re-orient/re-arrange their customer’s natural hierarchical DISC intellect structure for the purpose of communicating and making that one sale.

Three other subsequent and important discoveries were made: Whenever the salesperson correctly profiled their customer’s intellect profile within the first few seconds of the sales interaction, and began communicating with that person in accordance with that person’s largest overall DISC temperament type’s preferences, that person’s external “tell” behavior, and questioning pattern, became over 98% predictable going forward.

It was also found that once the salesperson had established a favorable and open psychological connection with their customer, then that person’s mindset appeared to defer (“default”) into an almost autopilot, or pre-programmed, mentality that perfectly paralleled classic documented DISC intellect and personality behavioral patterning.

The study consistently found that there was better than a 5x greater likelihood of a sale being made when the salesperson correctly identified their customer’s intellect structure and optimal purchasing profile within the first few seconds and then used that profile’s corresponding sales template as their psychological blueprint (roadmap) for making the sale.

The following is a statement of reasonable sales improvement expectations that have been achieved within 30 to 45 days upon successful completion of the course.

Those presently in the bottom one-third on their company’s leaderboard should reasonably expect a 75 to 100% sales production increase, but not less than 50%. Middle-tier sales producers should reasonably expect a 30 to 40% sales increase, but not less than 25%. Top-tier salespeople can expect a 10 to 12% sales improvement. This is due to the fact that those currently at this level of competency are presently using many of these strategies and techniques, either consciously or unconsciously.

It is helpful, though not absolutely necessary, that the trainee have some previous background knowledge of DISC prior to entering the training program. On a corporate level, this training can easily be done by that company’s staff behavioral psychologist. Experience has proven that if the enrolling trainee has little or no knowledge of DISC prior to entering the program, then they should reasonably expect a 40 to 50% reduction from these stated performance expectation numbers.

Temperament Selling’s training platform utilizes a unique multi-faceted approach to learning that involves reading, listening to a tutorial audio track, and then successfully completing an online final exam to ensure absolute trainee accountability to the learning process. The program was specifically built to accommodate the varying needs and diverse learning styles within the corporate marketplace.

Everything is now in place for us to have an immediate positive financial impact on any sponsoring company. The training program is designed to create genuine, immediate, and permanent multi-year selling competency, even if the person is a newly hired rookie. It is also noteworthy to mention that in designing this program, particular emphasis was given to addressing the varying academic, intellectual, and educational backgrounds of our trainees.

The training fully supports and totally complements any and all sales training programs, systems, or methodologies used in the marketplace today. The program has consistently proven itself to be cost-justifying and profitable within 30 to 60 days of completion. The psychological concepts, principles, techniques, and strategies presented are universally applicable in any industry.

The training course is designed to be easily completed within a few hours. There is absolutely no need for travel or sales downtime. The training platform fully engages the trainee’s mind in the learning process for maximum mental retention through the simultaneous utilization of all three forms of learning: auditory, visual, and kinesthetic.

This unique, multi-faceted, multi-dimensional approach causes the trainee’s mind to actively engage different memory centers within the brain as a means of creating high-functional retention. This particular training approach was chosen after studying the long-term performance and mental retention aspects of other sales training programs that use only a single or dual-pronged training approach.

Selling is an intense, high-focus mental activity requiring the salesperson’s mind to have natural spontaneity (instantaneous thought fluidity) in order for the salesperson to come across as genuine, sincere, and trustworthy. Our research found that this could only be accomplished on a consistent basis through the use of this more sophisticated multi-faceted training approach.

As you will come to see, Temperament Selling gives the company (and the salesperson) the unique ability to tailor everything in the sales message, and communication-wise, specifically to the way that one customer’s mind and intellect is psychologically wired for optimal buy-in reception. The benefits of this recipe approach to selling help everyone, from the new hire to the polished veteran.