Course description
Key Account Management - 2 day advanced sales skills training course - Live virtual training
As rewarding and necessary as it is, the ability to make big sales to big customers requires a particular set of skills, particularly in a modern business environment that is both complex and volatile.
This two day Key Account Management course has been developed specifically to give experienced account managers the up-to-date sales skills needed to respond to growing customer focus on procurement issues and react effectively to other buying trends. The innovative and highly intensive programme is designed to highlight and consolidate best practice, which involves a significant shift away from account management as 'account farming' and towards business development. The goal is to give participants the tools to differentiate themselves by how they sell, focusing their efforts on the business that will create the most value.
By the end of the course delegates will have learnt to:
- Apply the best strategy & tactics to modern account development
- Tailor their selling style to each account, differentiating between 'insight' and 'consultative' selling
- Be more persuasive in influencing buyers away from the competition
- Make effective use of the LDL Account Mapping Guide
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This Key Account Management course is suitable for experienced salespeople with key account responsibilities looking to gain more advanced skills in key account management and development.
The course is available in-person or virtual classroom. Each day is split into separate sessions with breaks at scheduled intervals.
Training Course Content
Course content includes:
- How buying has changed and how sellers need to adapt accordingly
- How to unravel the account’s organisational structure and ‘politics’
- How to design a modern day account development strategy
- Recognising the right business to target
- How to network. The importance of LinkedIn
- How to sell into complex accounts with multiple decision makers
- How to lead virtual or real teams towards commercial success
- How to be a trusted adviser and strategic partner
- Beyond solution selling - How to sell insights and stimulate gap recognition
- Understand the Psychology of a Buying Process
- How to maintain motivation, confidence and self-discipline in the longer sales cycle
- How to reduce the customer’s perception of risk
- How to handle Procurement and the modern day buyer
- Understand the customer’s perspective on your offering – How buyers use the Kraljik matrix
- The importance of implementation
- How to turn a satisfied customer into a source of further business
- How to become a profit improvement specialist by reducing customer costs or improving revenues
- How to sell ROI and strategic alignment
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Average rating 4.8
We routinely send our sales staff on 'The New Professional Selling Skills’ course, and having attended this myself I can say with total candour that the course and follow up mat...
Clearly communicated and structured with time given for audience input. Group tasks worthwhile.
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To succeed in key account management we must make lots of contacts and talk to lots of people within the account. One of the ways customers reduce risk is to ensure that as many of their people as possible are in favour of the decision.
A fantastic training package covering a variety of different but crucial aspects… feedback has provided me with plenty of information to go back and action.