Course Details

Your Growth, Our Mission

Customer Relations and Business Development Skills
Course Description
Business Development and Customer Relations are a business language that every technical manager should be able to understand as a minimum and speak as an ideal.

The aim of this course is to provide a broad introduction to understand what Customer Relations and business development really mean; how simple activities and planning can have a profound effect on the way you do business; and to generate a level of confidence in proactively marketing and growing a client base without a total reliance on proposals and a member of the marketing team.

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

  • The functions of business development and Customer Relations, how they differ, how they relate and their strategic fit
  • Key marketing tools and channels, including top level marketing concepts such as brand, the marketing plan and the marketing mix
  • Understand the systematically develop an opportunity pipeline and use it to convert leads into opportunities
  • When not to bid on an opportunity
  • Ensure proposals are aligned with business development objectives to maximize new client acquisition
  • Design effective marketing and client relationship plans to support business development activities
  • Appreciate the importance of stakeholder relationships and networking and put them to work immediately
  • Learn the importance of tracking relationship management
  • Managers 
  • Administrators
  • Supervisors
  • Accounts , Sales & Marketing Professionals
  • Anyone who is or will be responsible for Planning or develop plans

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

  • Lectures
  • Workshop & Work Presentation
  • Case Studies and Practical Exercise
  • Videos and General Discussions

DAY 1:

  • What is today about?
  • Why have we come?
  • What do we expect?
  • What have we learned so far?
  • What will we go home with today?
  • Why do we need this course?
  • A few major marketing terms explained

DAY 2:

  • Brand
  • Elevator speech:
  • The Marketing Mix
  • A few major business development terms explained
  • Opportunity tracking
  • Pipeline
  • Cross selling
  • Relationship Management

DAY 3:

  • Why is a Go/No Go important?
  • What should move and when?
  • Do we know what chance of winning we have?
  • When do we NOT bid?
  • Why is networking important?
  • How do we network effectively
  • Proposal management
  • Using technology
  • Communication methodologies – understanding the importance of face to face

DAY 4:

  • Define customer service terminology, concepts, and principles.
  • Relate the importance of Customer Service.
  • Define external and internal customers.
  • Explain why employee satisfaction equals customer satisfaction.
  • Understand the difference between emotional and informational responsiveness.
  • Writing a client relationship plan

DAY 5:

  • Illustrate positive and negative attitudes and mind-sets.
  • Articulate how to get customers beyond mere satisfaction and develop customer loyalty.
  • Respond to difficult customers and coworkers with appropriate communication styles.
  • Model appropriate customer service skills in the community and workplace.

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds

3 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
CC113-02
2026-05-10
Cairo
USD 3500
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CC113-03
2026-08-23
Manama
USD 3500
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CC113-04
2026-10-11
Dubai
USD 3500
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