Become a certified business development professional
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