Managing key accounts professionally II

Sustainably improve customer relationships - successfully tap into new potential

Training
This training is held in German.
Digitalization, AI, and the economic situation are currently challenging our customer relationships. In this advanced training course, you will learn how business relationships are changing during the transformation phase and how to address decision-makers appropriately, right up to the management level. You will learn what drives companies in general and what motivates them to act or not. Practice approaches that enable you to work with your customers on an equal footing. Learn about other decision-relevant levers in key account management that strengthen your acceptance and round off your understanding of your customers.

Contents

Business development process in KA management

  • Structured analysis - impact on operational/strategic acquisition and responsibility.
  • The future of sales in the world of digital transformation – How processes are changing and how KA management is responding.
  • Nativity and pre-sales dominate key account management—sales is the final step. How core teams build and strengthen relationships through support strategies.

Targeting management/decisiondecision makers

  • Approach at eye level. Feature vs. vision selling, observing rules of conduct.
  • Understanding constraints on action. Why investments are made or not made despite necessity. Use the findings for your own acquisition.

Customer understanding as a success factor

  • Services: How they are changing and repositioning their added value.
  • Customer development process: Why and how customers make decisions and how purchasing should be considered downstream.
  • Digitalization: How it influences business models and acquisitions.

The key account manager as a success factor

  • Consulting/relationship management - external and internal.
  • At eye level with (top) management - rules of conduct.
  • Operational vs. strategic acquisition/responsibility/control.

Key accounts and artificial intelligence (AI)

  • Services/business models reimagined digitally.
  • Data and artificial intelligence—AI as a lever for more precise customer targeting.
  • Reactions to the challenges of digitalization.
  • Conclusions for the future of KA management.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

Deepen your knowledge of the interrelationships, modes of action, methods and instruments of successful key account management in order to achieve sustainable success.

  • You will learn about other levers in key account management,
  • You learn to change your perspective and supplement previous arguments,
  • You know the importance of the pre-sales phase, how it starts and how you can influence it,
  • You understand the urgency of expanding and consolidating your network,
  • You will learn how to set your goals and consciously use your authority,
  • You know what content you need to address to top management.
  • You understand key account management in the digital age.

Times of crisis in particular show how crucial it is to have a deep understanding of your customers. The knowledge you gained in Parts 1 and 2 will help you maintain your success by giving you a new perspective on your customers—because being a top solution provider is no longer enough today. Digitalization, pressure to increase efficiency, and the search for new areas of growth are changing the rules of the game. You will learn how to use the levers of key account management in a targeted manner under changing market conditions in order to successfully shape necessary changes. You will learn how to position yourself strategically in your company, better understand your key customers, and recognize the value of long-term partnerships—partnerships that create sustainable economic benefits for both sides.

Methods

Individual and group work, Personal consultation, discussion of practical and best-practice examples, exchange of experience, trainer input. The focus is on experiential and action-oriented learning. You will receive direct feedback on questions to help you progress.

Recommended for

Only participants who have already attended the training "Managing key accounts professionally I" (5066).

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