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Become a certified business development professional


Learn the business development process from A to Z to structure your work and become a successful BD Pro.


Master the business development process



Structure your job

Develop a deep understanding of the business development process and learn a proven framework to structure your job and hit your goals consistently


Enhance your skills

Learn the most important skills for business development success. Practice your newly acquired skills with role-plays and practical exercises


Increase your productivity

Implement modern business development, save time on repetitive tasks, and focus on more important activities that will generate long-term value



Who is this training for?


  • Business Development Professionals
  • Aspiring Business Developers
  • Sales Professionals
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Partnership professionals


Curriculum

This is what's included in the 5-week certification program:

Week 1: Business Development Mindset


Learning outcomes:

  • Understand the applications, role, and mission of business development
  • Clearly define your business development role
  • Develop the business development mindset

Session outline:

  • Introduction and goal setting
  • What is business development?
  • Role, activities, and applications of business development
  • Creating the business development mindset
  • Growth mindset vs Fixed mindset
  • Implementing the CLAP Framework

Practice: each module includes exercises, role-plays, or other interactions that will help you immediately put into practice what you learn
Duration: 2 hours
Format: Live Zoom call with your trainer and other participants


Week 2: Business Development Strategy


Learning outcomes:

  • Understand your business ecosystem
  • Gain the ability to research and analyze your market
  • Design a solid business development strategy

Session outline:

  • Homework review
  • Ecosystem mapping
  • Positioning your company in the ecosystem
  • Market research
  • Analyze your competitors
  • Build the foundation of your business development strategy

Practice: each module includes exercises, role-plays, or other interactions that will help you immediately put into practice what you learn
Duration: 2 hours
Format: Live Zoom call with your trainer and other participants


Week 3: Understand your Customers


Learning outcomes:

  • Develop a deep understanding of your customers
  • Create your buyer persona
  • Design strong value propositions

Session outline:

  • Homework review
  • Customer research
  • Using netnography to gather information
  • Design your buyer persona
  • Job-to-be-done framework
  • Value proposition design

Practice: each module includes exercises, role-plays, or other interactions that will help you immediately put into practice what you learn
Duration: 2 hours
Format: Live Zoom call with your trainer and other participants


Week 4: Business Development Tactics


Learning outcomes:

  • Design business development experiments
  • Identify successful business development tactics for success
  • Measure and scale business development activities

Session outline:

  • Homework review
  • What are business development experiments?
  • Idea generation for business development activities
  • How to prioritize business development ideas
  • Experiment outline and execution
  • Measure business development activities
  • Design your business development dashboard

Practice: each module includes exercises, role-plays, or other interactions that will help you immediately put into practice what you learn
Duration: 2 hours
Format: Live Zoom call with your trainer and other participants


Week 5: Business Development Skills


Learning outcomes:

  • Develop skills for business development success
  • Increase your productivity
  • Leverage technology for business development

Session outline:

  • Homework review
  • Lead generation tactics
  • Organisational skills
  • Time management skills
  • Communication skills
  • Tools to integrate in your business development job

Practice: each module includes exercises, role-plays, or other interactions that will help you immediately put into practice what you learn
Duration: 2 hours
Format: Live Zoom call with your trainer and other participants


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