Selling In The Motor Trade

Mercedes-Benz Head of Sales | "What You Tolerate, You Condone" - Chris Cormier


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Inside Mercedes-Benz Brooklands. Test tracks, heritage floors, AMG experiences and all. Chris Cormier breaks down the leadership techniques he uses to keep a prestigious site performing. From apprentice technician to head of sales, Chris shares the non-negotiables (effort, accountability, humility), why "what you tolerate, you condone," and how to create a culture where performance feedback is safe, specific and data-led.

We dig into hiring for attributes over CVs, the difference between motivation and discipline, and the story of building a whole sales team from industry newcomers, what worked, what didn't, and how they tuned the model as the market shifted. If you lead a sales floor (in autos or anywhere), this is a masterclass in fair, calm leadership that still delivers.

About Symco Training:

Symco Training was founded in 2000 by Simon Bowkett and it was his belief that the business had to offer its clients something different. That difference was clear to Simon from his days in the dealership when he experienced many sales trainers who had all the answers, but were unable, unwilling or both to actually show the delegate how they could be implemented. It remains the ethos of the business today. You see, Symco only employ trainers that are committed to delivering not only in spiring and insightful training, but are equally as happy to demonstrate these skills and techniques with real customers in your own showroom. We believe in order for sales training to be effective and in Simon's words 'real world', it needs to be tried and tested in the only place it matters the showroom floor. There is no room for theory when your goals are for your team to sell more cars, hours or parts and retain more profit. In dealerships around the world the focus applied by many of the sales executives is to try and sell a deal. Symco specialise in getting your teams to focus on selling themselves, the product and then supporting this with the deal.

To find out more visit: www.symcotraining.co.uk

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