🤩 Todays SPIN® Behaviour Challenge:

Your Greatest Strength isn’t Your Product — It’s Your Insight

In Enterprise Selling, 70-80% of meetings are boring because reps only answer the questions the customer thinks they have.

The elite 1% use SPIN® to reveal Unanticipated Needs. They don’t just follow the map; they show the customer where the map is wrong.

The SPIN® Shift: Challenging the Terrain

• Stop Solving Known Challenges: If the customer already knows the problem, you’re a commodity. Your personal insight is only valuable when you reveal the “Uncharted Risks” they haven’t noticed yet.

• The Reflective “I” (Implication): This is where you challenge respectfully. “You’re focused on the 5% efficiency gain. But if we look at the underlying Navigational Drift in your data architecture, what happens to your scalability when the market shifts in six months?”

• The Internal Lock: Most reps are afraid to be “tough.” They wait for permission to lead. Notice that lock — and choose not to be governed by it. If you see a cliff they don’t, it is your duty to point it out.

• Listen for the “North Star” (Explicit Need): When you challenge the current path, you help them voice the Business Value and the Emotional Experience they didn’t know they could dream of:

• The Logic: Strategic Certainty in an unpredictable market.

• The Emotion: The confidence of being ahead of the curve.

• The Reality Check (The Cost of Drift): “What are the consequences for your legacy — and the business — if you continue to optimize for today while the real threat is building on the horizon?”

The Hard Truth:

Stalled deals happen when you aren’t essential. You become essential by listening for the cost and the anxiety of the “Navigational Drift” that the customer hasn’t even admitted to themselves yet.

Value = (Business ROI + Emotional Peace of Mind) – Costs

The deal moves when you co-create a new North Star. What wants to emerge through your insight — if you get out of your own way?

Change Behaviour. Change Results.™ 

Need inspiration — text “30 min” on my mobile +4526700356

All the best.

Anders 🤩

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