Socratic Selling

Build a relationship with your customers and close the sale more surely. The Socratic approach respects the power of the customer. The customer has the need, the power, and the decision-making authority. Socratic Selling shows you how to access that power, to cooperate with it, and to make it work for you. Inside you will discover how to: Open a sales dialogue dynamically, so that you and your customer go right to the heart of the matter Guide the dialogue through a discovery of needs and needed decisions Negotiate objections, and close effectively Uncover the motivators that move sales to more predictable closure

Socratic Selling shows sales people how to build a relationship with the customer and close the sale more surely. The Socratic Approach respects the power of the customer. The guide shows the reader how to access that power, to cooperate with it, and to induce it to flow toward the salesperson.

Socratic Selling shows salespeople how to build a relationship with the customer & close the sale more surely. The Socratic approach respects the power of the customer. The customer has the need, the power, & the decision-making authority. Socratic Selling shows the reader how to access that power, to cooperate with it, & to induce it to flow toward the salesperson. Readers will discover how to: Open a sales dialogue dynamically, so that the salesperson & customer go right to the heart of the matter; guide the dialogue through a discovery of needs & needed decisions, negotiate objections, & close effectively; uncover the motivators that move sales to more predictable closure.

Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy.

The benefits and importance of Socratic seminars are widely recognized, but little has been written on how to make them happen successfully in the classroom. In Socratic Circles: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Middle and High School, author Matt Copeland provides real-world examples and straightforward answers to frequent questions. He creates a coaching guide for both the teacher new to Socratic seminars and the experienced teacher seeking to optimize the benefits of this powerful strategy. Socratic Circles also shows teachers who are familiar with literature circles the many ways in which these two practices complement and extend each other. Effectively implemented, Socratic seminars enhance reading comprehension, listening and speaking skills, and build better classroom community and conflict resolution skills. By giving students ownership over the classroom discussion around texts, they become more independent and motivated learners. Ultimately, because there is a direct relationship between the level of participation and the richness of the experience, Socratic seminars teach students to take responsibility for the quality of their own learning. Filled with examples to help readers visualize the application of these concepts in practice, Socratic Circles includes transcripts of student dialogue and work samples of preparation and follow-up activities. The helpful appendices offer ready-to-copy handouts and examples, and suggested selections of text that connect to major literary works. As our classrooms and our schools grow increasingly focused on meeting high standards and differentiating instruction for a wide variety of student needs and learning styles, Socratic seminars offer an essential classroom tool for meeting these goals.Socratic Circles is a complete and practical guide to Socratic seminars for the busy classroom teacher.

14 essays which examine the efforts of Socrates' associates to preserve his speeches for posterity. The papers place particular emphasis on the non-Platonic tradition.

A.A. Long, a leading scholar of later ancient philosophy, gives the definitive presentation of the thought of Epictetus for a broad readership, showing its continued relevance