Course : Exploring a customer need

Practical course - 3.5 hours - Ref. 9EX
Price : 430 CHF E.T.

Exploring a customer need




What approaches are needed to better identify customer needs? What tools can help? How can you put the customer at the heart of your approach? A 3.5-hour workshop will enable you to experiment with methods and tools for putting needs into words and adapting your practices to the customer's context and challenges.


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Remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. 9EX
  3.5 hours
430 CHF E.T.




What approaches are needed to better identify customer needs? What tools can help? How can you put the customer at the heart of your approach? A 3.5-hour workshop will enable you to experiment with methods and tools for putting needs into words and adapting your practices to the customer's context and challenges.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Identify the issues at the heart of the customer's needs
Understanding what's at stake for the customer
Initiate a deliverable

Intended audience
Salespeople, KAMs, sales managers and anyone with a sales function.

Prerequisites
Experience in B-to-B sales.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Group and individual workshops based on the empathy map. Mind map production. Deliverable design. Action plan.
Teaching methods
3h30 training-workshop. Group and individual workshops based on the empathy map. Mind map production. Deliverable design. Action plan.

Course schedule

1
Identify the challenges of expressing needs

  • Putting words to the heart of the problem.
  • Identify the objective and the scope of what is expected.
  • Integrate needs with business reality.
Group discussion
Workshop: construction of a collective mind map to assess the challenges of understanding needs, identify obstacles in your business practice, and identify your own needs. Ideation and classification.

2
Exploring customer needs

  • Explore the needs of the end customer (internal or external).
  • Identify priority needs.
  • Identify the levers of customer buy-in.
Hands-on work
Workshop: getting to know your customer better. Individual work on the seven questions of the empathy card. Immerse yourself in the customer's world, analyze and identify the priority points in the customer's needs. Retrospective: lessons learned from working on the empathy map.

3
Delivering the expression of need

  • Generate ideation for deliverables.
  • Prioritizing ideas.
  • Design of the expected deliverable.
Hands-on work
Workshop: propose a deliverable (the best practice guide for an expression of need). Collaborative ideation and classification. Individual work: draw up an action plan.


Publication date : 06/03/2024