Account Management Training:
Protect & Grow Your Key Accounts

Your key accounts are always in competitors’ sights. Protect them with a repeatable plan to retain and grow revenue.

a team meeting

Standard Program Overview

Too often, organizations don’t create a clear account management strategy until after they’ve lost a major customer. Our Account Management Training equips your team with a repeatable process to protect high-value accounts, strengthen buyer relationships, and uncover new growth opportunities.

In this program, your team will learn how to:

  • Distinguish between large accounts and true strategic/key accounts.

  • Build account plans that safeguard business continuity.

  • Identify new sales opportunities inside existing accounts.

  • Improve customer relationships while delivering measurable, mutual value.

The program is flexible. Individual modules can also be delivered to territory sales reps—because every seller has customers they simply cannot afford to lose.

Every sales team is different. That’s why our Account Management Training is fully customizable—built around your buyers, your market, and your goals. We don’t just give you theory; we give your team the practical tools to apply account management strategies immediately.

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Account Management Course Content

Understand the Landscape: Develop a Relationship Overview
  1. Type of Account
  2. Situation Overview
  3. Organizational Chart
  4. Accounts Key Players
  5. Our Account Team
  6. Relationship Map
  7. Competitive Map
  8. White Space Analysis
  9. Strategy Overivew
Conduct a Financial Overview
  1. Financial Snapshot: Prior 3 Years
  2. % Overall Spend With Us & Trend
  3. Won-Loss Analysis
  4. Current Sales Opportunities
  5. Potential Sales Opportunities – Next 3 Years
  6. Upcoming Contracts or Renewals
Develop an Account Development Plan
  1. Business Imperatives by SBU, Division, Department, etc. & KPIs
  2. Attack Plan to Drive Business Outcomes: Actions, Who & Due Date
  3. Our Risks & Concerns & Mitigation Strategy
  4. Contact Frequency & Documentation
  5. Creating Competitive Immunity
  6. Business Review Process & Cadence
  7. Performance Scorecard

What You’ll Gain from Account Management Training

Reinforcement Strategy

Training is only effective if it sticks. To ensure long-term impact, Account Management Training must be reinforced and applied consistently after the workshop. Without reinforcement, skills fade and behaviors return to old habits.

Our post-program reinforcement strategy helps your team:

  • Apply new account management skills in real customer situations.

  • Sustain behavior change through regular coaching and support.

  • Measure progress and track business outcomes over time.

We offer a structured reinforcement program—including monthly coaching and support for up to six months—to embed account management practices into your team’s daily workflow.

Activity Purpose Platform Matrics Timing
Audience
Satisfaction
Determine the value of the training content
Face-to-Face Training:
Instructor Led
Survey
Conversations/Interviews
Proactive Feedback
Immediately After
(Program Delivery)
Knowledge
Transfer
Did they learn it?
Gamification
Points earned Ranking
Post Training for
12-26 Months
Adoption
Do they use the training?
Use of Worksheets
and Tools
Direct Observation Review of Worksheet
& Tools by FLSM
Post Training and On-Going
Competency
Determine the Business
Impact. Did the Training
work?
Virtual Videos Guided Practice
Verification by FLSM that Skills Were Learned, Remembered & Being Applied Correctly
On-Going
Results
Determine the ROI. Was the Training Worth it?
Improved Retention Increase in Revenue Through Penetration & Cross Selling
On-Going

Ready to Protect and Grow Your Key Accounts? Discover how Account Management Training can help your team retain revenue and uncover new opportunities.