How the world s leading services firms build enduring client relationships All for One sets out ten essential strategies for building long term, institutional client relationships anchored at the most senior levels of management.
Corporate clients are demanding more value from their external advisors, and consolidating their business around a smaller number of firms. These trends are forcing a variety of service providers--from consulting firms to large banks--to confront a series of difficult challenges:
* How do we create an 'all-for-one, one-for-all' culture in which the whole is greater than the sum-of-the-parts and we succeed in leveraging our global network to deliver value to clients?"
* How do we mobilize the right people, resources, and ideas--across a multitude of organizational and geographic boundaries--into each and every client relationship?"
* How do we evolve from a trusted advisor to a trusted partner and build multi-year, institutional relationships?
All for One answers these questions with an innovative and comprehensive model for developing enduring, institutional client relationships--what Andrew Sobel refers to as Level 6 Trusted Client Partnerships. It offers readers ten specific strategies that are thoroughly supported by case studies, best practices from leading firms, and implementation tools. The individual professional is principally responsible for five of these strategies, while the firm--the institution--must support and drive the other five. When you successfully execute against all ten of these building blocks, you develop long-term, professional-client partnerships that provide great value to the client and high levels of personal satisfaction and profitability for the service provider.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Transforming Your Client Relationships 1
Part I A Road Map For Building Trusted Client Partnerships
1 Reaching Level 6: Trusted Client Partner 13
2 Employing 10 Integrated Strategies 25
Part II The Five Individual Strategies
3 Strategy One: Becoming an Agenda Setter 35
4 Strategy Two: Developing Relationship Capital 59
5 Strategy Three: Engaging New Clients 85
6 Strategy Four: Institutionalizing Client Relationships 111
7 Strategy Five: Adding Multiple Layers of Value 131
Part III The Five Institutional Strategies
8 Strategy Six: Targeting the Right Clients 161
9 Strategy Seven: Building a Client Leadership Pipeline 173
10 Strategy Eight: Promoting Collaboration 199
11 Strategy Nine: Listening to Clients 237
12 Strategy Ten: Creating a Unique Client Experience 247
Part IV Frequently Asked Questions and Conclusion
13 Answers to the Most Commonly Asked Questions about Building Client Relationships 267
14 Conclusion 295
Index 299
