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.

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We value the relationship we have with LSA Global. They customize and deliver top quality sales solutions when we needed them. They pay special attention to ensuring the solution fits our unique needs, business, and culture.

I would recommend them to anyone looking to greatly improve the skills of their sales force.

Carol M. Harbin
Manager, Worldwide Sales L&D

We partnered with LSA to help custom design, deliver, and measure an advanced new employee on-boarding process. It was well thought out and bought into by sales leadership. The combination of targeted sales tools, technology, coaching, performance plans, training, and reinforcement made all the difference. The solution quantifiably improved new employee and hiring manager satisfaction and increased the speed to sales quota for new hires.

I would highly recommend LSA Global for any sales enablement team looking to increase the engagement and speed to productivity of their sales force. We are excited to implement the program globally as we continue to scale.

Rochana Golani
Director, Global Sales & Technical Field Enablement

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 recently hired LSA to help us take our client delivery methodology to the next level as we continue to grow and help our clients succeed.

The custom strategy and design session exceeded our expectations. They really understood our business and delivered within tight time frames. They were the best I have seen for this type of complex, visible, and strategic work.

LSA’s ability to get a group of 20+ executives from around the globe on the same page, push their thinking to new heights, and ensure an executable plan was excellent.

I would recommend LSA to anyone looking to take their strategy and strategic execution to the next level.

Rob Sturgeon
EVP Client Delivery

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

LSA was instrumental in making our worldwide sales meeting a success. They saved me a ton of time with ‘best in class’ solutions to meet our business objectives. Whenever I’m in a pinch, I can count on LSA’s dynamic team of sales trainers and consultants to really go the extra mile.

They truly understand the meaning of customer delight. Thank you!

Amy Walker
Manager

We originally engaged with LSA Global to help our subcontract administrators and buyers develop better negotiations skills. As manufacturers of satellites, we have many sole source companies to procure the required parts.

Our teams must be able to interact effectively with international companies. This environment uniquely challenges our team in their ability to create equitable contracts, while preserving and strengthening our supplier relationships.

LSA Global not only provided our team with the skills to negotiate effectively and consistently, but we further expanded our relationship to include consulting around our negotiations’ process, measurement of our negotiations, and one-on-one coaching for our team members. We are very pleased with the result of our partnership with LSA Global.

Vivian Mackintosh
Vice President of Materiel

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

We evaluated 6 well known sales development partners in the market. We ended up selecting LSA global because of their unique ability to get results selling solutions. They also had the strongest assessment, implementation, measurement, coaching, and global capabilities .

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 wanted our Channel Managers to get sales strategies and tools that would increase partner revenue and strengthen partner relationships. LSA Global’s ability to quickly understand our business and to bring experienced and proven resources to the table created credibility with both the executive and sales team.

We look forward to continuing our sales partnership with them.

Chip Whitman
Channel Excellence Manager

We engaged with LSA Global to deliver a highly customized sales territory planning and management workshop. They have a unique ability to quickly understand our business and needs. This keen understanding allowed for a sales solution that was specific and impactful.

Their sales consultants and facilitators were well prepared and ingrained themselves to become one of us. We’ve come to see LSA Global as a true sales partner.

Pratiksha Patel
Assistant Vice President Talent

LSA custom designed and delivered the best sales training session that I have ever attended.

They focused on our industry, our customers, and our competitors. The materials and facilitators were world class.

They were passionate about helping our global sales force understand the fundamentals necessary to be successful and not leave money on the table.

I recommend them to any sales force looking to drive profitable revenue and beat the competition.

Carl Dickenson
Director of Sales

LSA Global has been a great partner in helping us move toward being “the leading developer of talent in the service performance management industry.”

I have engaged LSA to help develop best-in-class programs in the areas of: Executive On-boarding, Manager Training, Sales Training and Coaching, Employee Engagement, and Instructional Design.

They have consistently met or exceeded my (very) high expectations and are always responsive to my needs to increase performance, engagement, customer satisfaction, and sales growth.

Mike Normant
Senior Director, Training & Development

The sales negotiations training program was awesome. The facilitator was excellent. We are immediately able to see the relevance and apply it to our specific. The preparation and energy was very apparent. The facilitator did a great job keeping everyone engaged and focused on what mattered most to our success.

I am very pleased with the results and like the very relevant and applicable sales negotiations tools. Great job!

Jack Lord
Vice President of Sales

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