DECISION-CENTRIC SELLING™ WORKSHOPS

    Teach Your Team to Sell the Way Buyers Decide.

    The Decision-Centric Selling™ Workshop gives sales teams a practical system for reading individual buyers, finding hidden decision risk, and enabling confident decisions with the right people, proof, expertise, and access.

    Rich Patterson speaking at a live event

    CHOOSE YOUR WORKSHOP FORMAT

    60-Minute Focused Workshop or Two-Part Full Interactive Workshop

    Most Sales Training Stops at the Seller.

    Sales teams learn how to qualify opportunities, run discovery, present solutions, and advance a process.

    But a well-qualified deal can still stall when the seller does not understand how the buyer is evaluating the decision.

    Decision-Centric Selling™ gives teams a practical way to understand what is happening underneath the sales process.

    1. Same Message. Different Buyers.

      Reps often communicate the same way to buyers who evaluate information and risk very differently.

    2. Hidden Decision Risk.

      The opportunity looks healthy until an unresolved concern, missing stakeholder, or confidence gap stops the deal.

    3. Next-Step Coaching.

      Managers coach sellers on what to do next without diagnosing what the buyer still needs in order to decide.

    THE FLAGSHIP WORKSHOP

    The Decision-Centric Selling™ Workshop

    This is one connected workshop built around the complete Decision-Centric Selling™ operating method.

    Teams learn how to understand the individual buyer, identify what is putting the decision at risk, and help the buyer build the confidence needed to move forward.

    1. 01: READ THE BUYER

      Understand How This Buyer Decides

      Understand how this individual buyer processes and evaluates information when making a major decision.

      Framework: Buyer Coding™

    2. 02: FIND THE RISK

      Identify What Is Really Stalling the Deal

      Identify the unresolved decision risk preventing the buyer or buying group from moving forward.

      Diagnostic: Decision Risk Review

    3. 03: ENABLE THE DECISION

      Give Buyers What They Need to Decide

      Connect the buyer with the people, proof, expertise, and access they need to decide with confidence.

      Tool: Confidence Plan

    Every workshop covers all three parts of the method. They are not offered as standalone modules.

    What Your Team Will Be Able to Do

    • Recognize the five Buyer Codes and the signals associated with each one

    • Adapt discovery, evidence, and communication to how an individual buyer decides

    • Separate opportunity confidence from decision confidence

    • Identify hidden personal, organizational, and process risk

    • Recognize where confidence is breaking down across a buying committee

    • Give buyers the people, proof, expertise, and access they need to decide with confidence

    • Use the Decision Risk Review to examine stalled or complex opportunities

    • Use the Confidence Plan to create a shared path toward a decision

    WHAT SELLERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE METHOD

    Authentic feedback about Buyer Coding™ and Rich’s teaching.

    “I can't believe how you simplified this. Every conversation I have from here on out, I'll be thinking about these codes. I sell into the restaurant industry and can already think back to conversations I've had and how this would have changed things for me. I highly recommend people in sales learn this!”

    Doug Smith

    “This is the 3rd training I've purchased but the first one I'll actually use!”

    Chris Ayala

    “Every rep learns to sell to titles, but very few learn to sell to the way people actually make decisions. Buyer Coding teaches you how to recognize a buyer's style so you can meet them where they're at, not where your script tells you to be.”

    Matthew Campbell

    This Is a Working Session.Not Another Sales Lecture.

    The workshop connects the methodology to the sales situations your team is facing now.

    Participants discuss real buying situations, diagnose where decision confidence is breaking down, and apply the method to active opportunities and complex buying committees rather than passively watch a presentation.

    01

    Interactive Learning

    The methodology is taught through practical examples and team discussion.

    02

    Real-Deal Application

    Participants connect the concepts to opportunities and buying situations they recognize.

    03

    Shared Language

    Sellers and managers leave with a common way to discuss buyers, decision risk, and confidence.

    04

    Practical Tools

    The Buyer Coding™ framework, Decision Risk Review, and Confidence Plan give the team a repeatable way to apply what they learned.

    The core methodology remains consistent. The examples, emphasis, and application are tailored to the team’s sales motion, market, and current challenges.

    One Method.Two Workshop Formats.

    60-Minute Focused Workshop

    Focused Experience

    A fast-moving introduction to the complete Decision-Centric Selling™ method. The session covers all three parts of the system with interactive discussion and practical examples.

    Best for: Sales kickoffs, team meetings, leadership sessions, and focused enablement events.

    FULL INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP

    Two 60-Minute Sessions

    The complete workshop delivered across two focused sessions, with deeper instruction, team exercises, real-deal application, and additional time to work through decision risk and buyer confidence.

    Best for: Sales teams that want to put the methodology into practice and create a shared operating language.

    Both workshop formats cover Read the Buyer, Find the Risk, and Enable the Decision. The two-part full interactive workshop creates more time for instruction, team exercises, and application to real opportunities.

    • Available in person or virtually
    • Customized to the team and sales motion

    Built by a Sales Operator.Not an Outside Observer.

    Rich Patterson has spent more than 23 years selling and more than 15 years leading sales teams.

    As a working sales executive and executive sponsor on complex opportunities, Rich developed Decision-Centric Selling™ by studying what happens when qualified deals stall, buying committees lose alignment, and individual buyers lack the confidence to decide.

    The workshop combines that operating experience with a practical methodology teams can use in sales conversations, deal reviews, and coaching sessions.

    TRAINING FOR INDIVIDUAL SELLERS

    Buying for Yourself?

    Start with Buyer Coding™ Foundations, the $49 self-paced training for individual sellers who want to understand the five Buyer Codes and adapt how they communicate with different buyers.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Is this one workshop or three separate workshops?

    It is one complete Decision-Centric Selling™ Workshop. Every session covers Read the Buyer, Find the Risk, and Enable the Decision as one connected method.

    What is the difference between the 60-Minute Focused Workshop and the full interactive workshop?

    Teams can choose a 60-minute focused workshop or the full interactive workshop delivered across two 60-minute sessions. Both formats cover Read the Buyer, Find the Risk, and Enable the Decision. The two-part experience provides more time for instruction, team exercises, and application to real opportunities.

    Can the workshop be delivered virtually?

    Yes. The workshop is available both in person and virtually.

    Can the workshop be customized for our team?

    Yes. The core methodology remains consistent, while the examples, emphasis, and application are tailored to your sales motion, market, and current challenges.

    Does this replace our existing sales methodology?

    No. Decision-Centric Selling™ complements your existing qualification and sales process by helping the team understand how buyers evaluate risk, build confidence, and make decisions.

    Who is the workshop designed for?

    The workshop is designed for sales teams, sales leaders, enablement teams, and organizations navigating complex or multi-stakeholder buying decisions.

    Is Buyer Coding™ Foundations the same as the workshop?

    No. Buyer Coding™ Foundations is a self-paced introduction to the Buyer Coding™ framework for individual sellers. The team workshop covers the complete Decision-Centric Selling™ method.

    Give Your Team a Better Way to See the Deal.

    Bring Decision-Centric Selling™ to your next sales meeting, kickoff, off-site, or development session.