Black Belt Academy: be taught, apply, succeed at offering buyer worth!

When Cisco invests in associate enablement, it intends to supply belongings to maximise profitability and productiveness. In truth, we’ve seen this in apply with companions which have invested in Black Belt enablement within the following approach: 30% Black Belt licensed workers notice a ten% 12 months/12 months common enhance in bookings all the way in which to 50% worker certifications yielding a 26% common enhance in reserving versus friends [1]. We need to make sure that the Cisco associate’s practices create (and the professionals that occupy these practices) the very best experiences, which is able to contribute to glorious buyer interactions. To this finish, Cisco companions use the Black Belt Academy to achieve abilities and data to generate buyer alternatives.

The Cisco Black Belt Academy is a simplified enablement framework constructed to assist associate gross sales and engineers be taught Cisco’s aggressive benefit and the way Cisco options stack up towards the competitors.

Some ask the distinction with different certifications resembling CCIE. CCIE (Cisco Licensed Internetwork Professional) is one in all many technical basis certifications. It certifies that the holder has expert-level data of networking throughout numerous architectures, whereas Black Belt supplies free the on-going gross sales/pre-sales, CX, Operations, and ongoing technical coaching on the newest Cisco Expertise. Collectively, Black Belt and Cisco technical basis certifications, like CCIE, are strategic to offering a optimistic end-to-end buyer expertise.

This 12 months, there have been appreciable updates to the educational maps for a lot of completely different roles (see desk under). As you may see, we cowl subjects from the C-suite to the assist and all roles in between. This role-based enablement strategy can profit anybody instantly contributing to nice buyer interactions.

Cisco’s Black Belt Academy framework has three levels of competency, to be taught, apply, and succeed by implementing these role-based journeys. Cisco locations a excessive deal with Apply (Stage 2) and Succeed (stage 3), since these display the very best stage of licensed proficiency that clients have come to understand. Additionally, it helps a path to greater worth returns from further companions providers.

Cisco has prioritized Black Belt content material towards our clients’ largest alternatives to energy hybrid work, safe operations, rework their infrastructure (aligned to Unified Experiences), and reimagine purposes. We do that by offering options in hybrid work, hybrid cloud, SASE, safety, and full-stack observability.

We now have automated and positioned within the arms of Black Belt Academy contributors the power to achieve all the advantages in a self-paced format that features quiz completion. We now have additionally listened and created options to deal ID/SO necessities for completion of stage two necessities. Particularly, an ideal  pitch video, proof of idea, or high-level design can obtain stage completion.

One other space the place we’ve listened and delivered an answer to companions is within the space of reporting. Now, all associate exercise with Black Belt Academy may be seen inside PXP (or generally with help from their PAM). Since all information is linked in PXP, companions may also obtain suggestions on maximizing the Black Belt Academy to assist their future development targets.

By means of the Black Belt Hub, you may also see motivational applications, resembling Shogun, examination vouchers, or creatively take into consideration combining Black Belt Academy with different actions. Uncover how one associate mixed Black Belt and giving again to their neighborhood to create ardour and motivation.

Normal data may be discovered on our public cisco.com website for the Black Belt Academy. Present Cisco companions can discover deeper particulars by going to SalesConnect and logging in to the Black Belt Hub.

We’re excited by the milestones we’re working towards to empower companions by totally automating and integrating our shared worth chains that can result in greater buyer satisfaction and loyalty, keep tuned!

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1 Cisco Black Belt Information Academy information evaluation, for Q2’FY22-Q2FY23

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