Sales Management Foundations
1h 1mIntermediate2022-01-27
Authors

Drew Boyd
Global leader in creativity and innovation
Course details
When sales forces are managed well, companies drive more revenue. In this course, marketing professor Drew Boyd explains what sales management is, why it is important, and how you can get the skills you need to become an outstanding sales manager and recruit, train, retain, and manage a high-performing sales team. He reveals how to motivate individual salespeople and teams with compensation and quotas. Drew also provides an overview of creating and managing sales territories, including sales forecasting and evaluation of territories' performance. Last but not least, he shows you how to adapt all the lessons in this course to successfully manage in a remote/hybrid work environment.
Skills covered
Sales ManagementSalesDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Successful sales team management
1. Understanding Sales Management
- 02 - What is sales management
- 03 - Defining the sales task
2. Acquiring Sales Talent
- 04 - Recruiting salespeople
- 05 - Conducting sales training
- 06 - Motivating salespeople
3. Creating a Sales Structure
- 07 - Defining a sales force structure
- 08 - Forecasting sales performance
- 09 - Creating sales territories
- 10 - Setting sales quotas
4. Managing Sales Teams
- 11 - Understanding sales compensation
- 12 - Designing sales compensation programs
- 13 - Communicating sales compensation
- 14 - Managing underperforming reps
- 15 - Measuring sales performance
5. Managing Sales Virtually
- 16 - Creating the virtual sales task
- 17 - Conducting virtual competency programs
- 18 - Creating virtual territories
Conclusion
- 19 - Continuing your sales management journey