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Professional Services Training

This is one of our most valuable offerings. Alexander Consulting training services can literally lead the change inside your organization.

Superior knowledge, skills, and mindsets are critical components of competitive advantage. “Off-the-shelf” training packages just don’t cut it for all but the most basic applications. Training geared to the complex world of services is required for the majority of services organizations. It’s a highly competitive marketplace and you need every advantage you can get.

If you expect your people to do things differently, you are mistaken to think that an injection of training alone will do it—quality training must be supported by management reinforcement and coaching if what is learned in the training will be applied on the job.

Our systematic, practical approach focuses on the critical knowledge, skills, and tools required to make immediate improvements in performance.

We offer Professional Services Training on five topics critical to your success:

Becoming a Trusted Advisor: Relationship and Consulting Skills for the Technical Expert

Leading and Managing Technical Talent: Turning Technical Experts into Trusted Advisors

Selling Professional Services: Tools and Techniques for Top Performance

Consulting Skills: Turning Your Technical Experts into Trusted Advisors

Building Professional Services: High-Performance Strategies for Success

 


Becoming a Trusted Advisor: Relationship and Consulting Skills for the Technical Expert

Are you leaving money on the table? Are you maximizing the trust and credibility of your technical talent? Would you like to drive new business and increase customer loyalty?

No one has more impact on getting and keeping customers than the technical expert. Yet, although their specialized knowledge is highly prized, their potential value both to their customers and to their organizations is often unrealized.

This one-day, highly interactive workshop teaches the critical knowledge, skills, methods, and tools required to effectively engage and sustain a trusted-advisor relationship with all your clients. The results are more value to the customer and more value to your organization.

This essential workshop includes:
• Benefits of becoming a trusted advisor.
• Details and data from the latest trusted advisor research.
• What trusted advisors do that others don’t.
• Where you are on the Technical Talent Continuum.
• How you stack up today on the trusted advisor self-assessment.
• The six trust builders.
• The 10 commandments of trust-based consulting.
• The 12 success levers.
• The four trusted advisor capabilities.
• The six business development roles.
• Much more…

To view complete workshop topics, please download our brochure or contact us.

Leading and Managing Technical Talent: Turning Technical Experts into Trusted Advisors

Would you like to get more from your present resources? Would you like to get higher billable hours from your technical talent? Would you like to gain a distinct competitive advantage?

Technical experts that achieve trusted advisor status with their customers provide your organization with a distinct competitive advantage. Their value to your organization is immense. Yet, on average, only about five percent of technical talent enjoys this special relationship.

This one-day, highly-interactive workshop teaches the critical concepts, practices, methods, and tools required to effectively lead and manage your technical talent. Implementing what is taught will help you increase the number of your trusted advisors and improve the competencies of all your people to add more value to your customers and more value to your organization.

To view complete workshop topics, please download our brochure or contact us

Selling Professional Services: Tools and Techniques for Top Performance

Would you like to increase your revenues and gross profit? Would you like to stop discounting services? Would you like to build profitable, trust-based relationships?

Discover bold new strategies and build the capabilities to profitably sell professional services and solutions.

This is the workshop that takes the mystery out of how to sell professional services—putting your services company in the competitive winners circle, and building strong client relationships that will distinguish you from the competition.

Here’s where you’ll work with your colleagues who are facing the same challenges you face every day: balancing the current demands of profitably driving professional services business while creating the capabilities needed for the future. You’ll learn from Jim Alexander, a recognized expert in professional services consulting who is a master at sales effectiveness. You will share ideas and participate in case studies, exercises, and demonstrations and leave the session with enhanced skills, new selling tools, and the energy and confidence to accelerate your personal success.

To view complete workshop topics, please download our brochure or contact us.

Consulting Skills: Building Confidence, Achieving Credibility and Delivering Talent

Looking to improve client loyalty and retention? Want to increase billable hours and engagement profitability? Would you like to build an exceptional consulting practice?

This workshop teaches the consulting skills, processes, methods, and tools required to effectively and efficiently engage and deliver advisory assistance to clients. Attendees learn about the common pitfalls that lead to client dissatisfaction and the proven approaches to successful engagements.

Highlighted topics include:

  • The best practices of process and engagement professional consulting.
  • The four fatal flaws consultants make in client engagements and how to avoid them.
  • The 10 Commandments of consulting.
  • How to effectively implement the consulting process.
  • The four required capabilities of the professional consultant.
  • The requirements of becoming a trusted advisor in the client’s eyes.
  • How to influence with integrity.
  • The four questions that should always be asked.
  • Much, much more…

To view complete workshop topics, please download our brochure or contact us.

Building Professional Services: High-Performance Strategies for Success
Stop leaving money on the table and learn how to take advantage of the high demand for professional services. This “core” workshop shows you and your executive team the specifics disciplines and direct action you must take to succeed. Participants are actively involved throughout the workshop applying concepts and tools directly to their own business. Here’s a short list of features:

  • Four paths to greatness.
  • Fourteen best practices for success.
  • Twelve measures every professional services enterprise must track.
  • Six mistakes product companies make when transitioning to a services enterprise.
  • How to align strategy, sales, marketing, operations, delivery and talent.
  • Much, much more…

To view complete workshop topics, please download our brochure or contact us.

 

 
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