Business Sales

Account Management and Renewals

A practical course on retaining customers, expanding value, and managing renewal outcomes with discipline

Account Management and Renewals logo
Quick Course Facts
20
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
20
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.8
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Account Management and Renewals Course

Account Management and Renewals is a practical Business course for professionals responsible for retaining customers, expanding account value, and managing renewal outcomes with discipline. Students will learn how to own customer relationships, identify risk early, communicate value clearly, and coordinate renewal execution with confidence.

Strengthen Account Management And Renewals With Practical Business Discipline

  • Learn how to manage account ownership across the full customer lifecycle.
  • Build practical account plans that connect customer goals to measurable Business value.
  • Identify health signals, churn risks, renewal obstacles, and expansion opportunities earlier.
  • Improve renewal forecasting, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional execution.

A practical course on retaining customers, expanding value, and managing renewal outcomes with discipline through Account Management and Renewals.

This course gives students a structured approach to Account Management and Renewals in recurring revenue environments. It begins with the foundations of account ownership, including the role of account managers, lifecycle responsibilities, segmentation, prioritization, and portfolio discipline.

Students will learn how to create useful account plans, map stakeholders, build relationship coverage, and connect customer goals to success criteria and Business value. The course also covers customer health, adoption conversations, risk indicators, and proactive churn management before issues become urgent.

Renewal execution is treated as a disciplined Business process. Students will study renewal timelines, internal coordination, commercial qualification, procurement basics, contract negotiation, objection handling, competitive pressure, and discount requests.

The course also addresses responsible expansion, renewal forecasting, pipeline accuracy, handoffs, escalations, and post-renewal improvement. By the end, students will be able to manage accounts with clearer priorities, stronger customer conversations, better renewal discipline, and a more strategic approach to long-term customer value.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations of Account Ownership

3 lessons

This lesson defines account management as the operating discipline that protects and grows recurring revenue after the initial sale. It explains why account ownership matters in subscription and usage…

Lesson 2: Customer Lifecycle Stages and Account Manager Responsibilities

20 min
This lesson introduces the customer lifecycle as the operating map for account management. Learners will see how responsibility shifts from handoff and onboarding through adoption, value realization, …

Lesson 3: Segmentation, Prioritization, and Portfolio Discipline

19 min
This lesson introduces portfolio discipline: the habit of deciding where account managers should spend time, why that time is justified, and what level of coverage each customer should receive. In ren…

Account Strategy and Planning

3 lessons

Lesson 4: Building a Practical Account Plan

22 min
This lesson teaches a practical account planning method for account managers responsible for retention, expansion, and renewal outcomes. The focus is not on creating a long internal document, but on b…

Lesson 5: Stakeholder Mapping and Relationship Coverage

21 min
This lesson teaches a disciplined approach to stakeholder mapping for account managers responsible for retention and renewals. Learners will identify who influences renewal outcomes, assess relationsh…

Lesson 6: Understanding Customer Goals, Success Criteria, and Business Value

20 min
This lesson teaches account managers how to identify what a customer is trying to accomplish, translate those goals into observable success criteria, and connect day-to-day account activity to measura…

Retention and Customer Health

3 lessons

Lesson 7: Customer Health Signals and Risk Indicators

22 min
Customer health is the account manager’s early warning system. This lesson explains how to read adoption, engagement, relationship, support, commercial, and business-outcome signals before renewal ris…

Lesson 8: Adoption, Engagement, and Usage Conversations

19 min
This lesson teaches account managers how to turn adoption, engagement, and usage data into practical customer conversations. Learners will distinguish between raw product activity and meaningful adopt…

Lesson 9: Managing Churn Risk Before It Becomes Urgent

23 min
This lesson teaches account managers how to identify and manage churn risk early, before the renewal becomes a rescue effort. It focuses on practical signals, disciplined risk review, root-cause diagn…

Customer Communication and Value

3 lessons

Lesson 10: Running Effective Business Reviews

21 min
Business reviews are one of the account manager's strongest tools for turning routine customer communication into visible value, executive alignment, and better renewal outcomes. This lesson covers ho…

Lesson 11: Documenting Value and Building the Renewal Case

20 min
This lesson teaches account managers how to turn customer outcomes into a renewal-ready value story. Learners will practice documenting evidence throughout the customer lifecycle, connecting usage and…

Lesson 12: Executive Alignment and Strategic Account Conversations

22 min
This lesson teaches account managers how to create executive alignment and run strategic account conversations that influence renewal outcomes before procurement or contract pressure begins. The focus…

Renewal Execution

4 lessons

Lesson 13: Renewal Timelines, Milestones, and Internal Coordination

21 min
This lesson explains how to run a renewal as a coordinated operating process, not a last-minute commercial event. Learners will build a backward renewal timeline, define practical milestones, and use …

Lesson 14: Renewal Discovery and Commercial Qualification

20 min
This lesson teaches a disciplined approach to renewal discovery: how to uncover business context, stakeholder risk, usage reality, procurement constraints, and commercial pressure before a renewal bec…

Lesson 15: Pricing, Procurement, and Contract Negotiation Basics

24 min
This lesson explains how account managers should handle the commercial side of renewals: pricing, procurement, and basic contract negotiation. It focuses on preparing a defensible renewal position, un…

Lesson 16: Handling Objections, Competitive Pressure, and Discount Requests

23 min
This lesson gives account managers a practical operating model for handling renewal objections, competitive pressure, and discount requests without becoming defensive or reactive. It focuses on diagno…

Growth and Expansion

1 lesson

Lesson 17: Identifying Expansion Opportunities Responsibly

21 min
Expansion is an important part of account management, but it must be handled with discipline. This lesson shows how to identify legitimate expansion opportunities by connecting customer goals, adoptio…

Operating Rhythm and Performance

3 lessons

Lesson 18: Forecasting Renewals and Managing Pipeline Accuracy

19 min
This lesson teaches a disciplined approach to forecasting renewals and keeping the renewal pipeline accurate. Learners will distinguish forecast confidence from optimism, define renewal stages with ob…

Lesson 19: Handoffs, Escalations, and Cross-Functional Collaboration

18 min
This lesson focuses on the operating discipline required when account outcomes depend on multiple teams. Renewals rarely fail because one person lacked effort; they fail when ownership is unclear, cus…

Lesson 20: Post-Renewal Review and Continuous Account Improvement

17 min
This lesson explains how to run a disciplined post-renewal review after a customer renews, whether the outcome was strong, weak, expanded, flat, discounted, delayed, or partially lost. The focus is no…
About Your Instructor
Professor Amit Kumar

Professor Amit Kumar

Professor Amit Kumar guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.