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The Top Skills Sales Professionals Have Right Now

via LinkedIn Learning Path

Overview

Did you know? Skill sets for jobs are expected to change 41% by 2025. To help you stay up to date, we compared the top skills sales professionals had in 2015 to those they have for the same job today. Start learning the new top skills to prepare for your next career move.
  • Explore today's most important sales skills.
  • Learn the skills most relevant for your role.
  • Keep up with your peers and advance your career.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Sales Management Foundations
-Get the skills you need to become an outstanding sales manager. Learn how to recruit, select, retain, and manage salespeople and meet your organization's sales revenue goals.

Course 2: Serving Customers in a Continuously Changing World
-Discover the customer-focused solutions you need to deal with the challenges of a post-COVID world, including safety protocols, distribution issues, and aggressive attitudes.

Course 3: Business Development: Strategic Planning
-Use strategic planning to develop your business. Learn how to clearly define your vision and goals, create strategic initiatives, and implement your plan.

Course 4: Account Management: Maintaining Relationships
-Learn how to strengthen and develop a relationship from a value-adding acquaintance to a genuinely trusted business partner.

Course 5: Sales: Business to Consumer Online Sales
-Learn about the benefits and challenges of doing business to consumer (B2C) online, and how you can adopt an effective business model to sell your products online.

Course 6: Managing Your Sales Process
-Learn how to build a sales process that is easy to follow and keeps you on track.

Course 7: Sales Operations
-Join Brian Frank as he dives into the sales operations function and how it can help you achieve greater sales success.

Course 8: Communication within Teams
-Learn how to cultivate the communication practices of high-performing teams. Discover how to establish a team charter, communicate in different settings, and more.

Course 9: The Secret to Better Decisions: Stop Hoarding Chips
-No more regrets. We all make decisions, and we can do better. In this breakthrough short course, best-selling author Seth Godin shows you how to avoid the most common trap.

Courses

Taught by

Drew Boyd, David Brownlee, Meridith Elliott Powell, CSP, CPAE, Miles Croft, Jeff Bloomfield, Brian Frank, Daisy Lovelace and Seth Godin

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