
Rank annual client revenue, assign A/B/C tiers and allocate the client hours you actually have.
Separate long-term account tiers from temporary priorities with an owner and an end date.
Tools in this lecture: Portfolio Map; Portfolio-analysis prompt. All prompts are in the PDF slides.
Check sales promises against source documents and mark the 12 handoff items confirmed, unknown or conflicting.
Prepare the internal handoff, client kickoff, first-value milestones and one-page success plan.
Tools in this lecture: Handoff Memo and 30-Day Plan; Handoff memo prompt. All prompts are in the PDF slides.
Name the people needed for a client decision and map influence and attitude with evidence.
Check contact coverage, keep unknowns visible and plan introductions with an owner and a rhythm.
Tools in this lecture: Stakeholder Map; Stakeholder research prompt. All prompts are in the PDF slides.
Capture client goals in their words, with a baseline, target, measure and date.
Connect retention and growth goals to a whitespace opportunity, actions with owners, and risks.
Tools in this lecture: One-Page Account Plan; Account-plan draft prompt. All prompts are in the PDF slides.
Log each order, ticket, payment or relationship signal as a separate risk-register row.
Build a rescue plan with owners, dates and exit criteria; treat unknowns as questions to check.
Tools in this lecture: Risk Register and Rescue Plan; Risk-signal prompt. All prompts are in the PDF slides.
Map products bought, unconfirmed needs and confirmed expansion opportunities across client accounts.
Compare benefits, costs, setup and payback in full and conservative cases before proposing growth.
Tools in this lecture: Growth Map; Expansion signals and business-case prompt. All prompts are in the PDF slides.
Prepare a quarterly business review around client value, the decision makers and a 45-minute agenda.
Separate confirmed results, estimates and unknowns; record decisions, promises and the next quarter.
Tools in this lecture: QBR Builder; QBR value-report prompt, QBR follow-up email prompt. All prompts are in the PDF slides.
Work back from a renewal date and set the price target, floor and alternative before negotiations.
Check give-get concessions against the floor and draft a calm, specific price-increase letter.
Tools in this lecture: Renewal Plan Builder; Negotiation-preparation prompt, Price-increase letter prompt. All prompts are in the PDF slides.
Prepare first words, admitted facts, boundaries and the next update for a service failure.
Route an escalation and deliver a respectful no using three editable conversation cards.
Tools in this lecture: Hard Conversation Card; Incident-email prompt, Hard-call preparation prompt. All prompts are in the PDF slides.
Put tier hours, a Monday signal review, reserve capacity and Friday letters into weekly time blocks.
Keep renewal and expansion forecasts apart; check category evidence and AI drafts against your records.
Tools in this lecture: The Account Manager's Week; Monday signal-review prompt, Forecast-change prompt. All prompts are in the PDF slides.
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence
Most account managers do not lose clients in one bad meeting. They lose them quietly, one unanswered signal at a time.
This course gives you 10 working tools to catch those signals early and turn your client book into steady growth.
Sound familiar?
Your biggest client gets all your time, while a mid-size account goes silent and does not renew. Sales closed the deal with promises nobody wrote down. The QBR turns into a slide show nobody asked for, and the renewal conversation starts two weeks before the contract ends. Every month like this costs you clients, expansion and trust.
What changes after the course
Who teaches this course
Mike is the founder and head of strategy of a training business that grew to 1,800,000+ course enrollments and 170,000 students on Udemy. He has worked in HR and management for more than 20 years, including building the HR system of the unicorn Preply and working at Wargaming, and he is the author of about 200 books on Amazon. In this course he shares how he looks after his own key clients and partners: what to watch, what to write down and when to call.
How the course flows
First you map your book of business and take over clients cleanly from sales. Then you map the people behind each account and write a one-page account plan. Next you learn to read churn signals and grow accounts with upsell and cross-sell. After that you run QBRs clients want to attend, prepare renewals and price increases, and practise hard conversations. Finally you build the account manager's week, with separate forecasts for renewals and expansion and AI prompts that save hours without replacing your judgment.
What's included
Why start now
Your next renewal is already on the calendar, and your competitors' account managers are preparing for theirs. Every quarter without a system means clients you could have kept and growth you could have proposed.
Enroll now and start your first lesson today.