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Purpose

Emphasizes the importance of self-confidence in sales people and reveals how these employees can achieve confidence in their call-center roles.

Design/methodology/approach

Puts forward a series of spidergrams illustrating the self-confidence of different employees and suggests how they can improve their performance.

Findings

Advances the view that sales people need to: know their products and services; know their sales and customer-service processes; know how to get inside the world of prospective customers; know their competitors' products and services; know what has worked, and not worked, in the past; and have faith and belief in the product, service and brand.

Practical implications

Outlines development activities for call-center employees, concentrating on knowledge of product, sales process, customer-service processes, competitors' products and performance and the customer's world.

Originality/value

Provides a tool-kit for developing call-center skills.

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