Managing Customers for Competitive Advantage

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Managing Customers
for Competitive Advantage

Market Leadership with Customer Experience Mastery

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Classroom sessions
DateVenueFee
28 Apr-02 May 2025London - UK$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
01-05 Sep 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
08-12 Dec 2025London - UK$5,950RESERVE A SEAT

Training Course Overview

The ability to attract, satisfy, and retain customers is fundamental to business success and driving profitability. Studies show that acquiring a new customer can cost five to seven times more than retaining an existing one. Furthermore, in today’s world of price comparison and peer-review platforms, delivering exceptional experiences to existing customers has become a critical competitive advantage.

Although many organizations excel at marketing to attract and convert new prospects, fewer understand the strategies needed to foster customer loyalty and keep them returning year after year.

In the fast-paced Managing Customers for Competitive Advantage training course, you will learn how to gather and utilize the right information to understand your customers’ desires and deliver experiences that will delight them.

Recent advancements in the psychology and science of persuasion, loyalty, and purchasing behavior have greatly expanded our understanding. While all buyers seek quality and value, these concepts are highly subjective.

This training course delves into the psychological factors that drive customer loyalty, trust, and purchase decisions.

Once you understand what truly drives loyalty and how customers define quality and value, success lies in consistently meeting their expectations and adapting to any changes in their needs.

You will gain advanced tools and techniques to expand and nurture your customer base, inspiring long-term loyalty even in a world of constant price comparison and peer reviews.

This Anderson training course will feature:

  • Understanding precisely what the customer means by value’ and quality
  • Identifying and understanding the elements of a customer relationship strategy
  • Evaluating customers’ needs and the triggers and motivators that are important
  • Understanding how to manage customer data and analyse it
  • Planning a customer service programme to ensure customer retention and loyalty
  • Delivering consistent service and measure and demonstrate its success

Training Course Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Assess and review your value proposition for each core customer segment
  • Understand some of the science of Persuasion and Influence and how to use it in our own Marketing efforts
  • Develop a customer research programme to discover what the critical factors are
  • Understand Customer Relationship Management systems and their value in delivering consistency
  • Understand the role and importance of Social Media in a customer-centric world.
  • Evaluate customer feedback to fine tune your systems

Designed for

This Anderson training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Marketing executives and managers who are interested in customer retention, Social Media and word-of-mouth marketing
  • Anyone responsible for or contributing significantly to the development and implementation of customer relationships
  • Managers and supervisors who want to improve customer relationships
  • Customer service professionals

Learning Methods

This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The training course is highly interactive and will prompt delegates to reflect on their own thinking and communication style and practice. The Tutor will guide and facilitate learning using a wide variety of methods including direct input, discussions, case studies and group and individual exercises to focus on the themes of the course, practice skills and receive feedback.

The Course Outline

Day One: Customer Management at the Very Heart of your Business
  • Essentials of customer management – customer experience vs customer service
  • Customer acquisition and retention – measuring their impact on profitability
  • Customer lifetime value – identifying key customers using buyer personas
  • Developing value propositions for key customers
  • Using customer journey maps to assess the needs of key customers
  • Developing a customer-centric organisation
Day Two: Developing a Data-Led Strategy
  • Understanding hat do customers really want from your organisation?
  • Ensuring customer experience matches their needs and expectations
  • Developing a competitor intelligence system that delivers deep understanding
  • Using research to improve customer service and experience
  • Case studies: Companies that have turned around their businesses
  • Using AI: what to automate and what not to automate
Day Three: Customer Relationship Management
  • Developing active listening skills to strengthen relationships
  • Developing credibility with different customer personality types
  • Leading and motivating customer service stars, core performers and laggards
  • Role playing tricky customer services situations
  • Strategies for improving customer loyalty
  • Using Social media to strengthen relationships with customers
Day Four: Measuring and Monitoring Customer Satisfaction
  • Key metrics for measuring customer satisfaction including VOV and NPS
  • Using customer complaints and feedback to improve service
  • Using CRM software and diagnostic tools to monitor performance
  • Best practices for recording and monitoring customer service issues
  • Using the AWARE System to resolve customer issues
  • Strategies for working with difficult and demanding customers
Day Five: Excellence in Customer Management
  • Encouraging high performance in customer service teams
  • Developing a customer service training programme for your teams
  • Different methods for setting SMART performance goals
  • Skills for buddying, coaching and mentoring team members
  • Techniques for motivating to get the best from teams
  • Action planning

The Certificate

  • Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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