Develop salespeople able to adapt their selling to every client
Not all professionals sell the same way. And not all clients buy the same way. Talent360 uses DISC to understand how each professional sells, where they add the most value and how they can adapt their approach to different types of client.
Selling better does not mean everyone selling the same way
A professional can stand out for their ability to:
Another can reach the same result using a completely different approach.
That is why the question should not be
Does this person have a sales profile?
But rather
How does this person sell, where do they add the most value and with which clients or situations do they need to adapt their style?
Commercial effectiveness depends on the context
The solution can be explained through four variables:
Professional
How do they tend to sell?
Type of sale
What does the process require?
Client
How do they buy and decide?
Moment
What stage are we in?
The same style can feel very natural in certain contexts and more demanding in others. Talent360's commercial report analyzes precisely in which types of sale, clients and commercial stages the profile can operate most naturally and where it may need development.
Understand the sales style with DISC
More than knowing whether a person is D, I, S or C
Talent360 has a specific DISC module for Sales Agent Style. For each professional it allows you to explore:
- their sales style
- strengths
- challenges
- situations where they can especially add value
- aspects that may limit their effectiveness if not managed
For example, the reference report identifies a Problem-Solver style and analyzes how they can use analysis, decision, rigor or the ability to handle objections, together with possible challenges linked to rigidity, excessive demand or lack of adaptation to certain clients.
The goal is not to label. It is to answer:
Which part of their style can become a commercial advantage and what do they need to learn to adapt?
Ten distinct ways of selling and adding value
Talent360 identifies 10 sales styles. These definitions are kept deliberately brief; the specific DISC page explains the methodology in more detail.
Problem-Solver
Combines analysis and decision to find practical answers and move the opportunity forward.
Closer
Brings decision and a drive toward concreteness and closing.
Persuasive
Uses influence and communication to generate buy-in for the proposal.
Promoter
Brings energy, relationship and the ability to spark interest.
Companion
Generates closeness and accompanies the client through the decision process.
Loyalty-Builder
Favors continuity, trust and long-term relationships.
Guide
Helps the client move forward through guidance, structure and support.
Specialist
Brings precision, knowledge and technical depth.
Consultative
Analyzes needs and helps build a solution suited to the context.
Persevering
Maintains follow-up, consistency and continuity until completing the process.
We keep these definitions deliberately brief. The specific DISC page will later be able to explain the methodology in more detail.
There is no single best sales style
Each style can add decisive value in the right context:
The conclusion is not
“We need all our salespeople to be of the same style.”
But rather
“We need to understand what our sale requires and make better use of what each professional brings.”
The type of sale also matters
A good salesperson in one context may need to adapt in another
Talent360's report can analyze aspects such as:
- most favorable type of sale
- most demanding type of sale
- commercial stage where the profile can operate most naturally
- stage that may require greater adaptation
- most suitable type of client
- most challenging type of client
- key to increasing their effectiveness
- most favorable commercial environment
This part has great value because it shifts the conversation from:
Natural does not mean fixed
Understand how the professional adapts to their commercial environment
Talent360 also compares natural tendencies with how the professional seems to be adapting to the demands of their current commercial situation. The reading is done through the four DISC factors:
Decision
How they face challenges, objections, progress and decision.
Interaction
How they build relationship, influence and participation with the client.
Serenity
How they manage pace, follow-up, continuity and change.
Compliance
How they work on precision, preparation, conditions and criteria.
The report does not automatically interpret an adaptation as good or bad; it helps understand which behaviors seem to be increasing, decreasing or remaining stable according to the perceived demands of the environment.
Commercial ability does not depend solely on your natural style, but also on how much you can broaden your repertoire when the situation requires it.
Visualize your sales team on a DISC Map
From individual profiles to a collective view
Talent360 lets you generate a Commercial DISC Map that graphically positions the evaluated people according to their sales styles. This lets you observe:
- which styles predominate in the team
- what commercial diversity exists
- which ways of approaching the client are especially present
- which capabilities may be less represented
- where complementarity may exist between professionals
The map does not rank salespeople from best to worst. It shows different ways of selling and contributing to the commercial process.
Discover the DISC MapsDon't build a monochromatic sales team
A team may need professionals able to:
Not necessarily the same person performs all those activities with equal ease. The Commercial Map can help generate a different conversation:
What capabilities do we have as a team and which do we need to strengthen?
Understand also how the client buys
Not all clients need the same commercial conversation
Talent360 uses the four major DISC styles to understand differences in the way clients buy and decide.
Decisive Client
Tends to value clear solutions, speed, impact and concrete next steps.
Interactive Client
May respond especially to a positive, close, participative and stimulating experience.
Serene Client
Tends to value trust, stability, continuity and enough time to decide.
Compliant Client
Usually needs precision, evidence, clear conditions and well-founded arguments.
These differences appear explicitly in the client styles module.
The same proposal should not be sold the same way to everyone
Client D
Speed · result
Client I
Connection · enthusiasm
Client S
Trust · security
Client C
Data · precision
This does not mean manipulating the client. It means communicating in a way that allows them to better understand and value the proposal according to their needs and way of deciding.
From knowing the client to adapting the strategy
Talent360 can provide specific recommendations on how to adapt the sale to the different client styles. The module itself defines the goal as adjusting pace, message and commercial relationship to increase the effectiveness of the interaction. For example, depending on the client it may be advisable to:
The strategies change depending on both the salesperson's style and the client's style.
A sale is an interaction between two styles
Salesperson's style
How I tend to sell
Client's style
How they tend to decide
The goal is not to turn the professional into someone they are not. It is to help them answer:
What should I keep of my style and what do I need to adjust to connect better with this person?
From intuition to commercial development
A sales manager may know that someone:
“is technically excellent but struggles to close”
“generates many opportunities but loses follow-up”
DISC makes it possible to turn those perceptions into a more structured conversation about:
Every strength may need balance
A useful trait can become a barrier when used in excess.
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Rigor and better arguments
En exceso
May slow down progress
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Decision
En exceso
May create pressure
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Trust
En exceso
May delay concreteness
The development logic is not to eliminate the style. It is to:
learn when to use a strength and when to complement it with other behaviors.
From assessment to a commercial development plan
Development can focus on aspects such as the following, according to what each professional truly needs:
The sales manager also needs the map
Develop people without leading them all the same way
The manager can use the information to understand:
- which strengths to leverage
- which challenges to assign
- what support each professional needs
- what kind of feedback may be most useful
- which aspects are worth developing
And the Commercial Map adds a collective perspective:
What does the team need as a whole, not just each salesperson individually?
This connects very well with Talent360's general philosophy: person → team → context.
Don't assess to label salespeople
We would not use DISC to state “this person is cut out for sales” or “this profile is not commercial”.
The report itself shows that different styles can bring different strengths to different types and stages of sale. That is why the right question is:
Where can this person especially add value and what do they need to develop to be more effective in our commercial context?
Talent360Academy
Turn commercial needs into learning
Once priorities are identified, Talent360Academy can help work on certain capabilities through training.
Not all salespeople need exactly the same training. Use the diagnosis to decide what to develop, instead of training the whole team the same way.
Explore Talent360AcademyTalent360Consulting
Add support when the team needs it
Talent360Consulting lets you find independent professionals from the ecosystem for projects related to:
- commercial development
- sales teams
- assessment
- coaching
- training
- development plans
Where this solution adds value
Developing sales teams
Understand the team's styles, its collective strengths and development needs.
Onboarding salespeople
Help a new professional understand their style and how to adapt it to the sales context.
Consultative selling
Work on the ability to understand the client and adapt the conversation before proposing a solution.
Complex or technical sales
Analyze which profiles can operate most naturally and what adaptations may be necessary.
Improving conversion
Identify aspects related to communication, objections, pace, follow-up or closing that may require development.
Teams with very different results
Add behavioral information to understand why different professionals may approach the same process differently.
Sales managers
Facilitate more personalized development conversations.
Adapting to different clients
Train the professional to recognize differences and adjust pace, message and commercial relationship.
Different salespeople. Different clients. Different strategies.
Commercial excellence is not about always repeating the same technique. It is about having more ways to respond to different people and situations.
Designed for the whole commercial organization
Commercial Management
To understand the team's composition and guide development priorities.
Sales managers
To support each professional in a more personalized way.
Human Resources
To integrate behavior and development within commercial talent programs.
Learning & Development
To guide commercial training toward more specific needs.
Salespeople
To understand their own style and broaden their capacity to adapt.
Consultants and trainers
To use behavioral information in sales development programs.
From sales style to development
Talent360Center
Assess and visualize commercial talent.
Uses DISC, commercial modules and DISC Maps to understand both each professional and the composition of the team.
Discover CenterTalent360Academy
Turn priorities into learning.
Develop commercial capabilities through training when the diagnosis identifies a specific need.
Explore AcademyTalent360Consulting
Add professional support.
Find independent consultants from the ecosystem to develop projects with sales teams.
Find a specialistFrequently asked questions
Help each salesperson sell better without forcing them to sell the same way
Understand how each professional sells, visualize the diversity of the team and develop the ability to adapt the message, pace and relationship to different clients and commercial situations.