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  • Course 1 of 5 in the Strategic Sales Management Specialization
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  • Welcome to Strategic Sales Management specialization.
  • This specialization course focus on providing conceptual and practical guidance on sales planning and management.
  • The development of the specialization goes through the different phases of the sales planning process, keeping attention on the connection to the strategy of the company.
  • Concepts discussed in this specialization aim to support the analyses on how to plan sales in alignment with the strategic guidelines of the company. The sales functions are discussed with models and frameworks that support the planning process, which includes assumptions regarding the strategic guidelines, such as aggregate revenue targets, company?s earnings, and expected cash flow from the company?s operations. These variables are all related to the strategy of the company.
  • The target audience of this specialization include professionals with some experience in sales, they might have been promoted to a managing position recently, or they have plans to improve their expertise in the sales area to apply to more challenging positions in the future.
  • Prerequisite for this specialization is general knowledge of business concepts, models, and tools. Professionals who have concluded undergraduate courses of business administration, and also of different areas of knowledge, such as engineering, economics, accounting, and social sciences.
  • It?s also important to emphasize that sales involve a broad range of areas, there are products and services related to agriculture, petrochemical, automobile, aeronautics, chemical, pharmaceutical, medical, insurance, education, retail, and consulting industries, just to mention some examples. That means sales professionals are from all sectors.
  • Therefore, learners of different academic backgrounds may benefit from doing this specialization, which is structured to support sales planning and management from a methodological standpoint. And this approach applies to a diverse range of sectors.
  • The primary learning outcome of this specialization is the improvement of the sales planning and management competencies and skills, by providing a set of concepts, models, tools, and techniques to support the development of the sales plan structure, which will support the sale plan development.
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Curriculum

Module 1 - Effective Sales Planning

Video 1 - Welcome video

Video 2 - Presenting Logan Padawan - The new sales manager

Video 3 - Xavier and Logan in: Integrating Strategies - Company, Sales & Marketing

Video 4 - The integration of strategy, marketing, and sales

Video 5 - Integrating Strategies: Company, Sales & Marketing

Video 6 - The Strategizer: our hub for sales strategy - Episode 1

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Selling is art or science

Video 2 - More science than art: Sales in focus

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Stop fighting with marketing

Video 2 - Marketing and Sales walk together

Video 3 - The Strategizer: our hub for sales strategy - Episode 2

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: The sales strategy cycle

Video 2 - The sales cycles - Part 1

Video 3 - The sales cycles - Part 2

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Effective sales planning

Video 2 - Wrap Up - What Have We Learned?

Video 3 - Leia?s message to Learners - The journey to become a Sales Master Jedi

Strategic Sales Management - Specialization Overview

Integrating strategies: Company, Sales, and Marketing

The History of Professional Selling

A Brief History of Selling (Infographic)

The History of Selling (Infographic)

Ending the war between sales and marketing

Reading - Sales Strategy Cycle

Practice quiz: Overview on stategy, marketing and sales

Practice quiz: Integrating Strategies: Company, Sales & Marketing

Practice quiz: Overview on stategy, marketing and sales

Practice quiz: Course 1: Effective Sales ? An Overview Module 1: Effective Sales Planning

Sales strategy cycle.

Final assignment for Effective Sales Plannning

Module 2 - Strategic Sales Planning

Video 1 - Welcome to sales planning and corporate strategy alignment

Video 2 - Xavier and Logan in: Developing the sales plan in alignment to corporate strategy

Video 3 - Sales planning in alignment to corporate strategy

Video 4 - The Strategizer: our hub for sales strategy - Episode 3

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Balancing customers' and the company's interests

Video 2 - The convergence of company's and customers' interests

Video 3 - The Strategizer: our hub for sales strategy - Episode 4

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Streamlining sales and manufacturing operations

Video 2 - Streamlining sales and industrial/services operations

Video 3 - The Strategizer: our hub for sales strategy - Episode 5

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Sales planning based on financials

Video 2 - Sales planning and financials - Part 1

Video 3 - Sales planning and financials - Part 2

Video 4 - The Strategizer: our hub for sales strategy - Episode 6

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Defining goals and targets

Video 2 - Fine-tuning goals and targets in sales planning

Video 3 - The Strategizer: our hub for sales strategy - Episode 7

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Sales performance management

Video 2 - Incentives, compensation, and performance management

Video 3 - The Strategizer: our hub for sales strategy - Episode 8

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Sales leadership

Video 2 - Leading salesforce development

Video 3 - The Strategizer: our hub for sales strategy - Episode 9

Video 4 - Strategic sales management - Wrap up session

Sales Planning: Integration with Corporate Strategy

Balancing Customer Service and Satisfaction

Streamlining Sales with Industrial Operations and Services Development

Sales planning and financial aspects

Sales planning and financial aspects (II)

Reading - Setting goals

How strategy execution maps guided Cisco System?s Sales Incentive Compensation plan

Ethical leadership in the salesforce

Practice quiz: Aligning sales planning to corporate strategy

Practice quiz: Course 1: Effective Sales ? An Overview Module 2: Strategic Sales Planning

Practice quiz: Streamlining sales and operations

Strategic Sales Planning

Practice quiz: Establishing goals and targets

Practice quiz: Course 1: Effective Sales ? An Overview Module 2: Strategic Sales Planning

Strategic Sales Planning - Evaluation

Module 3 - Customer-oriented Selling

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Customer centric selling

Video 2 - Customer centric selling model explained

Video 3 - Why Customer Centric Selling

Video 1 - How the relationship between companies has changed and why it matters

Video 2 - A new model for a new environment

Video 1 - Xavier and Logan in: Long-term customers relationship

Video 2 - Long-term customers relationship

Video 1 - Why selling once won?t cut it anymore

Video 2 - Customer-centric selling - Wrap-up session

Customer-centric selling

Why Customer Centric Selling

Change in relationship between companies - Why it matters

A new model for a new environment

Customer relationship: Implications of Customer centered sales

Selling once won't cut it anymore

Customer-centric selling wrap-up

Practice quiz: Customer-centric selling

Practice quiz: Change in relationship between companies - Why it matters

Practice quiz: Customer relationship: Implications of Customer centered sales

Graded quiz: Customer oriented selling

Module 4 - Strategic Sales Management In Action: Our Journey Begins

Video 1 - Conceptual review

Video 2 - Assignment developing process

Reading: Printing & Graphics industry case

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