Strategic Account Planning Training that Gets Results

“We engaged with LSA Global to design and deliver Strategic Account Planning Training to help us grow key accounts. Their keen understanding of our customers and our business allowed for a solution that was specific and impactful to our sales success.

Their sales facilitators were well prepared and ingrained themselves to become one of us. We’ve come to see LSA Global as a true business partner.”
Pratiksha Patel | Vice President, Talent Development | L’Oréal

“Within a year of implementing the complete strategic account development process, revenue growth within existing accounts grew 46%.”

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Your strategic accounts matter. The likelihood of winning business at an existing customer is up to fourteen times higher than the likelihood of winning business at a new customer.

Are your key strategic accounts reaching their full potential?
Have you ever been surprised by the loss of a key account?
Do some of your accounts need more protection from revenue attrition or competitors?
Are you collaborating across sales, service, and support to thrive at your key accounts?
Would you like to transition from a transactional and reactive vendor to a proactive business partner?

If you are facing any of the above challenges, then our proven Major Sales Account Planning and Strategic Account Planning Training process is for you.

Description
Major Sales Account Planning and Strategic Account Planning is a strategic sales account planning process designed for sales professionals who work on critical large accounts and complex sales opportunities.

This proven sales account planning training helps you to develop a strategic client relationship with your most important accounts to drive impactful business results, increased revenues, and better margins.

The Major Sales Account Planning and Strategic Account Planning Training workshop is an intensive process, not a onetime training event. Sales professionals and sales teams prepare a strategic account plan for key current accounts to better influence, cross-sell, up-sell, inhibit competition, and drive business results.

After the workshop, sales account managers and sales account teams utilize a proven 12-week follow-through program which includes sales coaching, practice, and account plan reviews.

Outcome and Benefits
As a result of effectively implementing the Major Sales Account Planning & Sales Strategy process, sales teams typically achieve:

Growth and protection of key accounts
Stronger and more satisfying business and customer relationships
Increased and more diversified revenue
Better internal and external alignment and team productivity
Increased influence in customer buying decisions

To facilitate the Transfer of Training™, Major Sales Account Planning and Strategic Account Planning Training is supported by a full set of sales planning tools, follow-up methodology, and sales training measurement options to measure the business impact.

All tools and approaches can also be incorporated into your CRM system to ensure alignment.

Target Audience:
Sales, service, and support professionals who work on the most important large customer accounts and complex sales opportunities.

To speak with an LSA Expert and learn about Strategic Account Planning and Strategic Account Planning Training program customization and delivery options onsite at your company, please contact us.

Related Information

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Executive Director Global Learning

LSA Global demonstrated excellent expertise in sales and sales leadership, spent the time required to make sure the objectives were clear, and showed flexibility in shaping and sustaining everything that they did.

They “MEDRADized” the session to meet our unique needs, looked beyond the obvious, and got the key points across in a way that made sense. Thank you!

Doug Stantial
North America Sales Training Manager

At the onset of our engagement with LSA, I was skeptical that an outside firm would be able to understand and dissect our organization’s highly complex and technical business challenges.

However, through the leadership team interview and strategy retreat processes that LSA utilized, they provided a fresh, innovative, and practical perspective that created tremendous strategic value and focus for our executive leadership team.

As a result, I would highly recommend LSA Global to any leader struggling with building the strategic alignment and high performance teams necessary to generate sales growth, in a way that fits their unique corporate culture.

Robert Laudati
Managing Director

LSA always delivers the right sales and sales management solutions to meet our unique needs. I especially appreciate their ability to deeply understand our business and our culture so that they can design the most valuable and impactful outcomes for us and our clients.

Sarah Parks
Senior Project Manager

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We’ve had such strong feedback from the executive selling program that there are requests to roll it out within the Marketing, Product Management, and our Leadership teams. Thank you LSA!

Stephanie Lucey
HR Manager

We hired LSA to help align our sales strategy with our business strategy to sustain our hardware business while driving high growth in software and services. LSA’s ability to measure our level of strategic alignment, pinpoint areas of leverage, and get the entire executive sales team to agree upon what matters most exceeded our expectations.

I would recommend them to any sales leader who wants to drive sales performance.

Dan Dica
SVP Worldwide Sales

LSA has consistently delivered top notch value to Seagate’s Corporate University Program. The level of facilitator involvement and continuous program evolution has kept the sales negotiation training engaging, relevant, and impactful.

We look forward to working with LSA in the future.

Geoff Purnell
Sales Executive, Seagate Data Recovery Services

In an effort to establish a solid foundation of consultative selling skills for our client-facing teams that can be built on over time, we engaged with LSA Global. By understanding our business and our markets, LSA Global was able to design and deliver the relevant sales skills, tools, and processes that have established the foundation for our future success.

We are extremely satisfied with our decision to work with LSA. Thank you!.”

Kevin Wiley
Chief Operating Officer

LSA Global’s sales negotiation training and assessment process provided the sales negotiation tools and practices that have significantly enhanced our negotiations process. Their facilitators understood our business, its challenges, and framed the learning in a way that we understood.

I am very happy with the value we have received and would highly recommend LSA to others looking to improve their sales negotiations results.

Jeff Bizzack
President

From beginning to end, LSA was as invested in making sure the program succeeded as we were. They not only met the needs of our sales organization, but they helped us meet our very tight launch deadline.

The consultant operated with the sense of urgency necessary to ensure that we were ready to roll the business sales training program in a way that made sense.

Without their dedication and sales expertise we would not have been able to launch the program with the success that we did. Thank you LSA for being a valued business partner!

Erin Surprise
PHR, Manager - L & D

ServiceSource has relied on LSA Global’s expertise for a variety of core initiatives, from strategy design and implementation, to business sales skills, to sales coaching. We recently engaged LSA Global to create a competency matrix for our inside sales team that will serve as our roadmap for employee on-boarding, development, succession planning, and retention.

This critical project had a tight timeline with high visibility. LSA Global completed the deliverable ahead of schedule and surpassed our expectations.

PMO and Outside Sales Operations
Senior Vice President

We selected LSA Global over several other sales experts based upon their ability to clarify and align our sales strategy, their expertise in identifying the critical sales scenarios necessary to meet our growth targets, and their willingness to stand behind the results with targeted sales management training and coaching and a pay-for-performance guarantee.

They have become an integral part of my sales team as we rapidly scale. I would recommend them to any sales leader looking for a true partner.

Anthony Lanham
SVP, Sales North America

We turned to LSA Global to help us take our executive selling and solution selling skills to the next level.

Their ability to formally assess our sales situation, identify key sales skill gaps, develop a plan to measure the results, and fully implement a key sales initiative has been outstanding.

LSA delivers the full solution; not just sales training. I recommend them to any organization looking to transform its sales force the “right way” to sell higher and wider.

Daniel Heckman
Director of Sales-Enterprise Accounts

We needed a way to improve customer training. We had to reach a disparate group of people in a very short period time. LSA gave us a new training methodology and a better way to go to market with our customer training that improved their experience and our brand positioning.

LSA delivered exactly what we needed and exceeded our expectations. Thank you.

Hinda Chalew
Vice President of Marketing

Seagate has always found LSA to be a highly valuable consulting, training, and coaching resource.

The recent business sales training programs they’ve delivered for Seagate University have been the right solution, of highest of quality, and highly customized to our unique business and culture.

I would highly recommend LSA to any company interested in offering top notch learning solutions that make a difference.

Tammy Dujmovich
Sales, Marketing & Customer Service