How to Use consultative in a Sentence

consultative

adjective

• The Senate would have a mostly consultative role, and most bills would only need the approval of the lower house.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
• So much for all that slick American consultative sales jive.
  — Greg Story, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• The salesperson must take on more of a consultative role, working with the customer to understand their specific needs and pain points.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• The seller may be passionately consultative, but not engaged with the right kind of company or the right level of buyer, leading to the wrong kind of sale.
  — Scott Edinger, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• In the West, most salespeople rarely even think of the process of asking permission to ask questions, because consultative sales are the accepted way of doing things.
  — Greg Story, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• Our goal is to work with them to help those who are actually creating and distributing the films, and doing that on a more consultative basis.
  — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2023
• Their consultative approach helps clients understand their needs and make the most informed choices.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• What also sets Prose apart is its consultative approach.
  — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 19 Sep. 2024
• Our consultative approach allows our staff to identify the needs of our customers and then propose solutions to those needs.
  — Bob Bong, Daily Southtown, 10 July 2018
• The synod — a gathering of the church’s highest consultative body, which for the first time included lay people and women as voting members — is seen as a landmark moment in the church.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• Most Saudi women who do work are in teaching jobs, though women have also run in local elections and hold posts in the country’s top consultative body, the Shura Council.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2017
• Three jobs have been posted for the store including a part-time consultative sales lead, a full-time delivery associate and a full-time store supervisor.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2021
• District councils are consultative bodies on local affairs in Hong Kong, and the election will return 452 councillors for a four-year term.
  — Eric Cheung, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
• In one of my courses we ‘adopt’ a local nonprofit agency and provide free consultative services.
  — Donna Kiesling, Post-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2018
• No, he is expected to stay on as the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, a powerful consultative body.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• In this case, look for past experience in consulting (or a consultative mindset).
  — Yolanda Lau, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• The rationale was that the former implied a transactional role rather than that of a consultative relationship with an expert.
  — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• At the start of a consultative assembly, on Friday, more than 3,000 delegates crammed themselves under one tent in the capital, Kabul, despite fears of the coronavirus.
  — Fatima Faizi, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2020
• Women are also now members of the consultative Shura Council that advises King Salman.
  — NBC News, 22 Jan. 2018
• The king, 81, delivered his annual 7-minute-long speech before the consultative Shura Council.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
• How these roles might be enshrined in a constitution can be considered by the presidential council and a consultative body such as the National Council.
  — Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
• Salespeople should adopt a more consultative approach and think about how capabilities could be used in different ways.
  — Christine Bailey, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Also, business sales just tend to be a lot more consultative and less transactional requiring a longer sales process with multiple stakeholders and a much heavier human touch.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• In large, complex organizations, only consultative decision making can keep up with the speed of change.
  — Timothy R. Clark, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• Wang Yang, who is 62 and has been a vice premier, took the fourth-ranking position, which is usually head of a consultative body that on paper advises the national parliament but has little real power.
  — Jeremy Page, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
• The branch aims to offer a more consultative approach with casual meeting spaces, booths and couches, along with self-service transaction areas including smart ATMs.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2021
• The shift to a more consultative tack drew a cautious welcome from business groups, which worry that May's plan focuses more on controlling immigration than protecting the economy.
  — William James and Elizabeth Piper, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2017
• By opening a consultative and wide-ranging dialogue with a diverse set of countries, the United States is offering something of value to its Indo-Pacific partners.
  — Mary E. Lovely, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2023
• Cofounder and coach at lucidly, a consultative coaching service helping SMBs build engaged & thriving teams.
  — Chris Herndon, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• There are multiple ways around these problems – setting up specialist sales teams, defining strategic accounts with a different approach, revising incentive plans, and training the sales team in a more consultative selling approach.
  — Andrew Binns, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024