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WORLD CLASS TRAINING:GETTING YOUR FIRM ON TRACK
PRESENTED BY SAM M. ALLRED, FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF UPSTREAM ACADEMY
ACADEMY FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM INTRODUCTIONPRESENTED BY
SAM ALLRED AND GRAHAM WILSON
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Before the recession, aggressively waiting for the phone to ring actually worked as a business development strategy.
Times have certainly changed.
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Firm leaders are focused now more than ever before on business development efforts, and for good reason. Change is sweeping our profession in the following ways:
• Senior partners highly skilled in business development—along with their key client contacts and best referral sources—are retiring in ever-greater numbers.
CHANGES IN OUR PROFESSION
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• Business leaders are requesting fewer services as they hunker down to ride out the recession.
• Escalating client attrition rates mean more and more new work needs to come in the door each year just to hold top line revenue steady.
CHANGES IN OUR PROFESSION
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• Competition for client dollars is intense, bringing a new wave of price cutting.
• Newer partners and senior managers (who have never sold during a recession) are being asked to bring in increasing amounts of new business.
CHANGES IN OUR PROFESSION
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So what should be your plan of action?
We believe one very wise course of action is to make sure your best future business developers have the opportunity to develop the skills, confidence and discipline needed to consistently bring high quality new work opportunities into the firm.
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The Academy for Business Development is an intensive 18-month program for teaching vital business development skills to new partners and senior managers.
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PRESENTATION ROADMAP
1. What makes this program unique?
2. Overview of the Academy for Business Development
3. Key dates4. Questions and answersEmail questions to [email protected]
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Our sole objective is to ensure your future business developers have the skills, confidence, and discipline required to consistently bring high quality new work into your firm from new and existing clients.
DELIBERATE DESIGN
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The Academy is a work program. We believe in being appropriately demanding of participants to ensure they achieve their business development goals.
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Training is delivered in digestible doses throughout the 18-month program. Individuals must be able to apply what they learn on a daily basis. Learning is continuous.
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Our undeviating focus on principles and processes helps participants develop the skills and confidence necessary to grow the firm’s top line revenue.
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The Academy helps participants recognize the very best prospects and successfully engage them as firm clients.
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Knowing that poor follow-through is the number one complaint about almost all programs, we’ve built multiple levels of accountability into the Academy for Business Development.
PRACTICAL ACCOUNTABILITY
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The Academy requires a high level of accountability between participants and their guides and between participants and Academy faculty.
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Our instructors, Graham Wilson and Sam Allred, have significantly impacted the development and growth of hundreds of public accounting firms around the world for nearly two decades.
DEMONSTRATED EXPERTISE
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OVERVIEW OF THE ACADEMY FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
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Each ABD participant needs to have a guide.
The guide should be a respected stakeholder in the firm. A partner may guide more than one participant.
1. PERSONAL GUIDES
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Guides will work with participants throughout the program and will hold them accountable for follow-through on their Personal Business Development Plans.
Upstream Academy will provide guidance and support for ABD guides.
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The guide will meet with the participant each month to review the most recent SkillBuilding Forum and to track progress on the Personal Business Development Plan.
The guide will communicate monthly with the managing partner regarding the participant’s progress.
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We believe many vital business development skills need to be taught face-to-face in an interactive group environment.
Three 8-hour workshops will be held throughout the 18-month period (June 2011, January 2012, and June 2012).
The workshops will begin at 2:00pm and conclude at noon the next day.
2. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
WORKSHOPS
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In addition to learning vital business development skills, participants will spend time at each workshop developing their 6-month Personal Business Development Plan.
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• Overview of 18-month program• Compilation of first Personal Business
Development Plan (6-month period)• The selling and buying cycles• The psychology of selling professional
services• Completion of a behavioral style
inventory• Cross servicing – increasing net
revenue per client• Essential time management skills• Call to action – next steps for this
marketing period
WORKSHOP #1 - AGENDA
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• Review of progress with cross-servicing clients
• Prospecting – how to fill the pipeline with qualified prospects
• How to ask relevant questions – based on SPIN Selling®
• Improving your listening skills• Review of Personal Business
Development Plan for next marketing period
• Call to action – next steps for this marketing period
WORKSHOP #2 - AGENDA
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• Building a strong referral base• Learning when to say no• Generalist versus specialist: the
advantages of being an expert• Advanced networking: it’s the small
things that count• Review of Personal Business
Development Plan for next marketing period
• Call to action – next steps for this marketing period
WORKSHOP #3 - AGENDA
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During the program, 14 one-hour conference calls led by Graham Wilson and Sam Allred will provide a forum for discussing vital business development skills.
This helps participants broaden their knowledge incrementally and consistently over the full 18 months.
3. SKILLBUILDING FORUMS
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We will record each SkillBuilding
Forum and participants will receive an audio CD after the conference call.
The following slide lists the topics that will be covered. There will be no SkillBuilding forums in March and April.
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• Great Service, More Work: Connecting the Dots• Recognizing the Best Prospects – And Why It
Matters• Asking Clients for Additional Business• Positioning Yourself As a Consultant, Not a
Vendor• Preparing to Meet with a Prospect• Differentiating Your Firm in the Marketplace• Developing C-Level Clients into A-Level Clients• The Art and Science of Effective Sales
Negotiation• Getting the Business (Closing Effectively)• Making Persuasive Presentations• Networking: Becoming an Expert• Overcoming Setbacks and Learning from
Failures• Dealing Strategically with D-level Clients• Proposals: When to Use them and When Not to
Use Them• Graduation: Discipline for the Rest of Your
Career
SKILLBUILDING FORUM TOPICS
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All participants will set specific business development goals they are accountable to achieve.
Plans will be fine-tuned with new goals for each six-month business development period.
4. PERSONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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Accountability check-ins will happen at the following levels:
• Participants will meet with their guide each month to report progress on their Personal Business Development Plan.
• Guides will report participant’s progress to managing partners on a monthly basis.
5. ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK-INS
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• Academy faculty will hold bi-monthly group conference calls with groups of ten or fewer participants.
• Academy faculty will schedule a personal phone call with managing partners every six months.
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Upstream Academy will recommend CPE credit based on the level of participation in this program.
6. CPE
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Like everything we do at Upstream Academy, this program is unconditionally guaranteed to your full satisfaction.
If you are not completely satisfied, we will, at your option, either waive your fee or accept that portion of the fee that reflects your level of satisfaction.
7. UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTEE
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The investment for each participant is $9,000 ($7,500 for UAN members). This fee represents the total 18-month cost of the program, including the participant’s registration at each workshop.
The only additional cost will be travel, lodging and meals at the events.
8. INVESTMENT
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Deadline to Register — June 1
ABD Business Development Workshops
June 23-24, 2011 — ABD Workshop #1 - Las Vegas, NevadaJanuary 10-11, 2012 — ABD Workshop #2, Las Vegas, Nevada June 19-20, 2012 — ABD Workshop #3, Park City, Utah
Guide Calls (10am Mountain)
July 20, 2011
January 19, 2012
July 18, 2012
KEY 2010-2011 DATES
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ABD SkillBuilding Forums
KEY 2011-2012 DATES
2011
July 21
August 25
September 22
October 20
November 17
December 15
2012
January 26
February 24
May 24
July 26
August 8
September 20
October 16
November 20
December 18, 2012 ABD Graduation Class of 2012