Contents
Strategic account management and account planning
- Different approaches and core tasks for sustainable success.
Stakeholder management and mapping
- Strategies for the targeted involvement and analysis of key stakeholders.
Communication and sales strategies
- Successful methods for dealing with complex sales processes and long purchase cycles.
Building long-term partnerships
- Sustainable strategies for profitable customer relationships.
Mindset and relationship building
- Proactive relationship management as the key to long-term customer loyalty.
Conversation management and touchpoints
- Effective communication and important contact points to strengthen the customer relationship.
Understanding and influencing decision-making processes and criteria
- Recognize decision paths and criteria and respond to them in a targeted manner.
Strengthen competitive position
- Value-based communication and customized offers for better market positioning.
Dealing with conflicting goals and difficult discussion situations
- Conflict management and solution strategies for challenging situations.
Integration of purchasing
- Efficient cooperation with the purchasing department in the sales process.
AI-supported meeting preparation
- Use of artificial intelligence to optimize conversation strategies.
Learning environment
Once you have registered, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services relating to this training course in your online learning environment.
Your benefit
As a participant this training course, you will learn how to:
- Improve your strategic communication and customer communication in a targeted manner
- successfully manage complex sales processes and bring them to a conclusion
- Building stable and profitable customer partnerships in the long term
- Better understand and influence needs through well-founded stakeholder analyses
- Promote customer loyalty in the long term with the help of effective relationship management
- Prepare meetings efficiently with AI support and conduct them in a targeted manner.
- Strengthen your competitive position through value-based communication
- Resolving conflicts successfully and working together optimally with the purchasing department
- apply practice-oriented strategies and instruments for proactive market positioning
Methods
The training is practice-oriented and offers a variety of methods to equip you with the skills and knowledge that are essential for success in the complex and challenging sales environment of key account management. Through trainer input and practical exercises, you will learn how to use strategic communication for sustainable success. Best-practice examples and cases from the participants illustrate the practical transfer. You will work with checklists, planning templates and receive valuable feedback to help you move forward.
Recommended for
All current and future (junior) key account managers, heads of key account management, sales managers, sales managers, account managers who need the necessary knowledge and skills to efficiently prepare and conduct strategic discussions with key customers / key accounts in a targeted manner.
Further recommendations for "Strategic conversation management in sales"
40995
Start dates and details
Wednesday, 04.06.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 05.06.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Monday, 15.09.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 16.09.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 25.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 26.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, 15.01.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 16.01.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 10.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 11.02.2026
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.