Indicative Content

    • Key Account (KA) Management: Overview and Best Practices

      • Key Account Management: An Overview

      • The New Landscape of Account Management

      • Understanding the Buy-Sell Ladder Model

      • Key Account Analysis and Qualifying

      • The Key Account Manager as a Business Developer

      • Understanding and Working the Customer Loyalty Ladder

      • Building Client Chemistry with F.O.R.M

    • The Business and KA Planning Process Using the STAR Business Planning Process:

      • Strategic Analysis

      • Targets and Goals

      • Activities

      • Reality Check

    • Re-Defining Your Processes for Breakthrough Results

      • Reengineering Your Team Selling Process to Avoid Mistaking Motion for Action

      • Reviewing the Selling Process

      • Identifying your Unique Selling Propositions (USPs) and Distinctive Selling Points (DSPs)

      • Creating a Competitive Analysis Matrix Using USP and DSP to Neutralize Competition

      • Designing and Implementing Key Performance Indicators

      • Creating a Balanced Scorecard (Business Performance Audit)

    • Effective Negotiation Skills

      • The Definition of Negotiation

      • The Difference Between Persuading and Negotiating

      • The Negotiation Process

      • The Phases of the Purchasing Decision

      • Influencing Decision Criteria

      • Effective Concession Management During Negotiation

      • Completing Your Negotiation Plan

    • Building and Leading the National Key Account Team

      • Stages in Team Formation

      • Building a High Performance Team

      • Defining Team Roles

      • The Team Motivation Mix

      • Management versus Leadership

      • Practices of Exemplary Leaders (Industry Practices)

    • Writing Business Proposals that Sell

      • Writing a Typical Business Proposal

      • Formatting Tips and Tricks for Winning Proposals

      • Creating Your Own Proposal Template Using a Suggested Proposal Format Guide

Objectives

  • Recognize the importance of re-defining businesses processes to match the ever changing market and customer requirements.

  • Produce clear sales and marketing differentiators to neutralize competition (value-based proposition).

  • Design and use financial ratios and KPIs to measure their operations’ effectiveness.

  • Use leadership, negotiation and power proposals to leverage their business and lead the national key account team.

Course Features

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