Relationship Management Skills
"Partnering with Customers"
Length/Product Type
2 Day Course
Targeted Audience
Consultants, Professional Services staff, Managers, Directors
Description
How well do you know your customer? How well are you perceived by them? Understanding your customer/s and their specific needs, as well as committing to, counseling with and adding value to them is essential to building meaningful, trusted relationships. As competition for business increases, it is necessary to set yourself apart from your competitors. In this comprehensive course, the focus will be on learning to become a “trusted advisor” rather than just another “vendor.”
Relationship Management is an unique 2 day program designed to help participants build trusted relationships and provide advisory services. The skills taught in this course will help participants better understand the needs of their customer/s. In addition participants will learn key skills in creating commitment, being perceived as credible and trustworthy and how to counsel their customers and makes valued recommendations. This program includes lecture, discussions, case studies and activities focused on increasing participants awareness around their relationship with their customer/s and how to achieve customer comradeship.
Objectives
Prepare for a customer interview using a job analysis, developing questions and reviewing resumes
Define what is a trusted advisor
Demonstrate the skills for understanding customers
List behaviors that will help you exhibit commitment
Plan how to earn credibility and trust from your customer
Practice behaviors for counseling customers
Learn how to add distinct value to your customer
Understand and apply the role of achieving customer comradeship
Perform a holistic trusted advisor gap analysis; identify the behaviors you must perform to become a trusted advisor
With this product you will receive
Recommended Supplemental Materials
Facilitator Instructions - to help you prepare for and facilitate each section of a course or customize and implement a template.
Training Products - A complete set of training materials rich with course training content and packaged into a single source file (PowerPoint) for ease of use. These materials include: Facilitator Guide, Participant Guide and Training Slides
Template Products - All template products come with training content, layout structure and/or frameworks in a sprcific training content area. You may customize with company information. Training content and layout is designed in PowerPoint, Word and/or Excel .
Book - The Trusted Advisor - by David H. Maister (Author), Charles H. Green (Author), Robert M. Galford. This book is used to read a few stories as illustrations of soft phrasing.
Book – Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Steven Covey. This book is used to read a story that illustrates active listening.