If you're interested in becoming a better manager and lead a high performance, self-motivated team that takes the initiative without having to constantly push then this is the course for you. The specific functions and activities you will study include:
Application of the Golden Rule to business and sales.
Developing the strategy needed to reach sales goals.
Understanding the roles and activities of each sales job.
Examining the markets.
Properly designing and organizing sales forces around markets.
Planning sales efforts.
Staffing the personnel needs of the sales force.
Training sales personnel.
Directing people's efforts through effective motivation, compensation, and leadership.
Analyzing and evaluating sales efforts.
Instructor Tony Velasquez is uniquely qualified to teach a course of this type. A small part of his extensive resume reads: Logistics Officer, U.S. Pacific Fleet Command, Pearl Harbor, HI 2004 - Present Director, Ordnance Department, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI 2002 - 2004 Officer in Charge, Squadron Ordnance Division, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, SC 1999 - 2002 Human Resource Recruiter, Marine Cops Recruiting Station Los Angeles, CA 1996 - 1999.
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Course Description
Do you want to become a Sales Manager or improve your management skills?
Then this course is for YOU!
Motivating employees is often tiring and time consuming work. As a manager, you provide incentives, set goals, acknowledge top producers, even use consequences or threats. Yet, when that external stimulation is no longer present, people have a tendency to slip back into their old ways: not moving unless someone is there to push.
In this course I will present you with the "basic" principles and practices of sales management. You will see that as a sales manager, you wear many hats; in a way, a sales manager needs to be a "jack-of-all-trades." Sales managers are planners, strategists, tacticians, organizers, forecasters, personnel specialists, trainers, communicators, motivators, leaders, data analysts, salespeople, employees, bosses, decision-makers, and often spouses and parents.
So take the first step to gain the knowledge needed to:
become a better manager and lead a high performance, self-motivated team that takes the initiative without having to constantly push
Communicate more powerfully and permanently eliminate communication breakdowns.
Use "pull strategies" rather than "push strategies" to accelerate team productivity and motivate employees
Identify and eliminate unproductive management habits that actually create the problems you are working so diligently to avoid.
Develop a greater level of awareness that will enable you to anticipate and prevent problems that slow down productivity, damage good will, cause stress and waste time, money and energy.
Dramatically reduce turnover.
Course Lessons
Lesson 1 - Introduction to Sales Management
In this lesson we will cover Ch. 1, 2 of your text, the instructor's lecture, and two 2 assignments, which will reinforce your knowledge of the material presented.
Lesson 2 - Planning the Sales Team's Efforts
In this lesson we will cover Ch. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of your text, the instructor's lecture, and 5 assignments, which will reinforce your knowledge of the material presented. This lesson also includes a Mid-Course Exam.
Lesson 3 - Staffing the Sales Team
In this lesson we will cover Ch. 8, 9 of your text, the instructor's lecture, and 2 assignments, which will reinforce your knowledge of the material presented.
Lesson 4 - Training the Sales Team
In this lesson we will cover Ch. 10, 11 of your text, the instructor's lecture, and 2 assignments, which will reinforce your knowledge of the material presented.
Lesson 5 - Directing the Sales Team
In this lesson we will cover Ch. 12, 13, 14 of your text, the instructor's lecture, and 3 assignments, which will reinforce your knowledge of the material presented.
Lesson 6 - Controlling the Sales Team
In this lesson we will cover Ch. 15, 16 of your text, the instructor's lecture, and 2 assignments, which will reinforce your knowledge of the material presented. This lesson also includes a Final Exam.
Optional Certificates Awarded
Certificate of Merit
Certificate of Academic Excellence
In addition to the standard Certificate of Course Completion, Merit Awards may be issued by the instructor at his/her own discretion and are based on student achievement. Merit awards also incur an additional $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and delivery of the award, as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Portfolio Service that documents your achievements online. Official Merit Awards have a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award (great for employers to verify your achievement).
This is a non-credit course, and is provided for your personal enrichment.
This course is not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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