
CLIENT CASE
CENTRAAL BEHEER ACHMEA
In partnership with The Thrive
LEARNING PROGRAM PILLARS
\ People activation
\ Organisational optimisation
\ Culture development
CONTEXT
Centraal Beheer is a subsidiary of Achmea, one of the largest and leading Insurance Corporates within the Netherlands. The organisation recognises that adapting to external matters as rapidly changing markets, competition increase, and the need of creating a data-driven organisation is mandatory to sustain. The commercial organisation -consisting of its sales and marketing department- needs to change in order to enable a modern market approach. The Thrive is their designated partner to lead this transformation because of their long-term relationship with Achmea and our expertise regarding ‘people-driven transformation’. Together with one of the partners of The Thrive, I am in the lead to modernise and transform its sales department.
APPROACH
We started defining the key objectives and ‘change vehicles’ which would drive the transformation. I developed a transformational concept that included the development of people, culture, and organisation. This accommodated the aim to create a fundamentally strong and modern sales approach. Meaning that the workforce is working more effectively and adding true (personalised) value for their clients, that the internal sales processes and technology systems are supportive and enable a data-driven organisation. The ongoing duration of this transformation lasted a year where I have developed and executed a diversity of team interventions, learning programs, management coaching, and co-creation sessions. The change is driven through close collaboration with the managers and by a selected group of leading account manager, followed by the next group which comprehends the implementation strategy.
RESULTS
The selected account managers applied new ways of working where they focus more on funnel management and new business. This is accompanied by strengthening their entrepreneurial mindset, which positively impacted their sales results. To extend the culture developed across the teams and departments towards being more collaborative and inter-connected. Another concrete output refers to the design and implementation of value propositions, ‘customer-centric’ sales cycle, sales funnel, and the optimisation of the CRM system in place.
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