How to Use consultative in a Sentence

consultative

adjective
  • But no new cardinals will be made at this meeting, which is purely consultative.
    — CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Leverage expert consultative insight to find the Goldilocks setup for you—not too many tools, not too few.
    — Lisa Hale, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Their consultative approach helps clients understand their needs and make the most informed choices.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
  • 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
  • In this case, look for past experience in consulting (or a consultative mindset).
    — Yolanda Lau, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Salespeople should adopt a more consultative approach and think about how capabilities could be used in different ways.
    — Christine Bailey, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Agencies must also build consultative services and ecosystem ties to stay indispensable.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In large, complex organizations, only consultative decision making can keep up with the speed of change.
    — Timothy R. Clark, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • To solve for this many companies are focusing more on organic growth through the bundling and offering of new services that are both product focused as well as consultative.
    — Billee Howard, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Our personal jewelers take a consultative approach to help customers find their perfect jewelry item.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • 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
  • This consultative approach can turn potential customers into long-term advocates, proving your commitment to their success over your own sale.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Use interactive content, consultative selling and real-time conversations to show impact, not just talk about it.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • His announcement came after a consultative assembly where he had been advised by thousands of representatives from across the country.
    — Fatima Faizi, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Part of being consultative is only recommending solutions that genuinely solve their problems.
    — Jeff Weiss, Forbes.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Women are also now members of the consultative Shura Council that advises King Salman.
    — NBC News, 22 Jan. 2018
  • In my experience, agents who master consultative sales consistently outperform those who focus solely on volume.
    — David Price, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Cofounder and coach at lucidly, a consultative coaching service helping SMBs build engaged & thriving teams.
    — Chris Herndon, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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