COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

CORE 0 - SAM playbook: Foundational skills for driving superior customer results

CORE 0
Availability:

February 10-13, 2020 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

March 10-12, 2020 Prague, Czech Republic

October 12-15, 2020 San Diego, California

November 10-12, 2020 Berlin, Germany

July 20-23, 2020 Chicago, Illinois

October 14-17, 2019 San Diego

November 12-14, 2019 Prague, Czech Republic

This 2-day course enables the participant to absorb the full scope of the work of a strategic account manager, and the progression of engagement both internally and with the customer. Candidates will work with case examples to understand job workflow and the specific competencies needed to perform each area of objectives, including: Co-Discovery, Fit and Planning; Co-creation, Monetization and Negotiation; and, Value Tracking and Delivery.

TOPICS COVERED:

  • Module 1: SAM Competencies, Skills, and Tools. During this session, the SAM journey of work and competencies required will be defined. A case will be covered that translates the entire journey into a real-life story. Modern SAM enabling tools will be introduced that will be used to facilitate the course to ensure a heavy focus on how the work is done rather than on conceptual theory.
    The breakout in this session will focus on having participants reflect on the SAMA competencies and workflow together with the case and evaluate their needs for skill development throughout their SAMA experience. These skill gaps will be used as a focal point for improvement thru the entire SAMA Training Curriculum.
  • Module 2: Co-Discovery, Fit and Planning: The focus of this module is to get participants to think strategically about their accounts. Each participant should walk away with a clear path to having strategic customer conversations that lead to value creation ideas:
    • About the Customer: Thinking strategically about the customer’s business situation
    • Value Story: Develop the content a SAM would use to have conversations with customers that lead to what customers value today and their ideas for where value creation efforts should be targeted
    • Feedback: How to get feedback from customers on their value creation ideas
    The breakout work in this session will focus on the Value Story. This is the key piece of work to enable SAMs to convert from tactical conversation to value creation at the executive level.
  • Module 3: Co-Creation, Value Monetization and Negotiation: The focal point of this module is to take customer value creation ideas and build business cases around them to get internal and customer approval:
    • Review the top customer feedback ideas for value creation then monetize, prioritize and decide on which ideas to work on
    • Develop planned outcomes for the customer and the internal organization
    • Build the projects required to execute the ideas and review with the customer and internal organization to ensure alignment
    The breakout work in this session will focus heavily on the quantitative outcomes to customer elements of the business case.
  • Module 4: Value Tracking and Delivery: The focal point of this module is to get into a rhythm of execution internally and with customers to complete and track value creation project outcomes.
    • Develop an approach to tracking quantified customer outcomes
    • Establish value creation project scorecards that are used in the operating rhythm of the internal and customer organization
    • Establish internal and customer accountability for executing value creation projects
    The breakout work in this session will focus heavily on building a Quantitative Outcome tracker that can be used internally and with customers.

 

Faculty: SAMA and Valkre