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Experience and a Proven Approach to Learning
Sales Pilot conducts medical sales training,
keynote presentations, and consulting services for companies
that sell to healthcare. With over 25 years
of sales experience, management, and consulting in the
medical device industry, Mace Horoff, the company's founder,
recognized that the sales training programs available
to the Medical Device and Healthcare Industry were too
generic and inadequate. Mace summarizes his experience
attending a typical sales training program during his
medical sales career:
"Several
times a year, I would take one to five days out
of my territory to attend company-sponsored sales
training programs. While some of the content was
good, and might have been useful if it had been
presented in a format that could have been incorporated
into my day-to-day routine, I always felt like it
was a waste of time. First - the presenters usually
didn't have a clue what it was like to sell in the
highly competitive medical environment. Second -
it was always "the presenter talks, you listen,
hope you had a good time and good luck with your
life!” Third - the next day back in the territory
it was business as usual - nothing changed!
Most of the useful information I learned at these
seminars was from networking with the other reps
during breaks and at the end of the day!"
A
superior method of training that Mace experienced was in the
aviation world when he studied and trained to become a pilot.
"The aviation approach to medical sales training
makes sense. In aviation, it's not good enough
to hopefully learn something in the training process;
competency to a measureable standard is mandatory!
You either master the required skills or you don't fly
- period! Medical device sales people are frequently
involved in the clinical environment. Lives are on the
line. Professional reputations are on the line. Your
company’s future is on the line. Crashing and burning
is not an option! Yet medical device companies
employ training programs that give credit for just showing
up or for passing an online exam. It just doesn't cut
it. Sales people need to train like their lives,
the lives of their companies, and patients’ lives
depend on it - because they do!"
The
Sales Pilot approach to medical device sales training is unique and
effective. It teaches precise planning and flawless execution
in a training environment that mimics airline pilot training. When the
need arises, the training automatically kicks in so
every situation is properly addressed.
Sales
Pilot shortens the learning curve! Your medical device representatives
will obtain instantly usable information in a few days that normally
takes 10 to 20 years in the field to acquire.
Our programs are not "happy camps" for sales
people, but one to three day intensive training sessions
that properly equip your sales force for success. The
training is challenging, yet effective. Your
sales force will return to their territories with "The
Right Stuff."
Sales Pilot is committed to producing medical
sales professionals for companies that sell goods and
services to healthcare.