Contents
Fundamentals of sustainability
- Definition of terms, historical development, legal requirements, influencing factors, reporting and key figures.
- Opportunities and risks, success factors.
Successful sustainability approaches in business development
- Business areas, organization, market and competitive strategies.
- Product and service portfolio, service management, resource and competence development, controlling.
Business development through sustainable management of the relevant processes
- Innovation management, sales channel design, stakeholder and customer management, service behavior.
- Analysis and optimization of business processes with regard to sustainability goals.
- Managing and incentivizing sustainability in business development.
Communicating and marketing sustainability effectively
- Sustainability in mission, guiding principles and vision.
- Development of a sustainable, authentic brand and communication strategy - internally and externally.
- Best practice examples.
Development of your individual Sustainable Business Development concept
- As-is analysis, framework conditions, objectives.
- Concept development, presentation and discussion.
Implementation of the sustainable business development concept
- Strategic and operational challenges, responsibilities and structures, competencies and qualification measures, controlling and reporting.
- Using digitalization, AI and social media effectively for concept implementation.
- Change management and leadership strategies.
Learning environment
Your benefit
- Expand your specialist knowledge of sustainability and its importance in business development.
- Identify opportunities and challenges for sustainable business development.
- Get to know successful sustainability approaches in business development.
- Bring sustainability to your business development and achieve lasting competitive and profit advantages.
- Find out how to identify resource efficiency potential and use it for your company's success.
- Develop a customized Sustainable Business Development concept for your company.
- Take the first steps towards successful implementation and integration of this concept in your company.
Methods
You will receive practical and intensive training and acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively integrate sustainable approaches into your corporate strategy as a business development manager. Individual and group work, personal consultation, discussion of case studies, exchange of experience, trainer input, experiential and action-oriented learning are at the forefront. You will work on your individual sustainable business development concept and receive direct feedback that will help you move forward!
Recommended for
All current and future (junior) business development managers, sales managers, sales managers, account managers, global account managers, key account managers, portfolio and partner managers and managing directors who need the necessary knowledge and skills to successfully implement sustainable principles in the business development process.
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Start dates and details
Monday, 22.09.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 23.09.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 19.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 20.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.