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Do your reps need to be more flexible?

September 07, 2026 • Jim Pancero • Season 5 • Episode 49

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How persuasive are you selling to someone with a personality and communication style opposite yours?

Most salespeople tend to be persuasive when their buyer’s motivations or interests are like theirs. The real selling challenge is selling to somebody opposite of you.

How do you sell to a detailed person if you're more big-picture? How do you make sure you’re able to communicate and deal with their comfort zone, not yours?

This personality stretch factor is a challenge for most salespeople. They’ve grown up selling to people just like them. What happens when buyers’ interests are different than yours?

What are you doing to help your reps understand their strengths and also where their personality and communication skills can be improved? How are you helping them stretch and understand how to be persuasive to all individuals, even those completely different than themselves?

Today’s video talks about why it’s so important to be able to sell to all buyers…not just the ones like you. Because if we can help a sales rep increase their flexibility and ability to sell to those different than themselves…they sell even more!

Do your sales reps need to be more flexible? Hi, I'm Jim Pancero, helping you and your team be more effective in selling today. And the reality for most sales people is they're very effective at selling to somebody that's just like them. Whatever their motivations or interests, as long as they're similar to them, they tend to be very persuasive. The real selling challenge happens for professionals when they're selling to somebody that's opposite. So, if you're a big picture person, how do you sell to somebody that's detailed? If you like to talk, how do you sell to somebody that's really just a listener? How do you make sure that you are able to communicate and deal with them in their comfort zone and not in yours? This stretch factor is a challenge for most sales reps cuz we've grown up selling to people that are just like us and that share common interests. What happens when those interests aren't so common? This is where the real challenge of selling comes in. What are you doing to help your sales reps understand where their strengths are and also where their weakest areas are because they're probably where those are where the customers are that they're having the hardest time selling and relating to. This is how being a coach can be more effective at helping your sales people stretch and understand how they can be persuasive to all individuals, even those that are completely different than themselves, because when we can increase their flexibility, sales reps tend to sell even more.