Sales Team Management Strategies (Online)

Build, manage, and motivate your sales force
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Key Takeaways

The Sales Team Management Strategies (Online) program will enable you to:

  • Align your sales management strategy with business and marketing goals as well as the role team members can play in brand building

  • Apply proven frameworks to build and manage a highly competent, motivated, and productive sales force

  • Use internal and external motivation factors to set sales team goals and targets and to counteract team burnout and turnover

  • Empower your sales force to incorporate social media and digital marketing techniques into sales team strategies

  • Evaluate different fixed and variable compensation methods to determine which is most effective for your sales team

Who Should Attend?

  • VPs of sales, senior sales managers, and other sales leaders seeking new sales management strategies for building and managing a high-performing sales team in a positive work culture to improve productivity and business impact

  • VPs of marketing and sales, heads of product marketing, and other marketing leaders seeking to improve the alignment of marketing and sales to convert more leads to customers, retain repeat business, and grow the business

  • Entrepreneurs and founders/co-founders of organizations seeking to establish a high-performance sales team to support rapid growth and profitability in global markets

  • Sales consultants, business development consultants, and technical sales consultants seeking to amplify their expertise in sales-leadership strategy, expand their network with sales leaders, and gain a better understanding of sales leaders’ pain points and how to solve them

Program Modules

In each module, Columbia Business School faculty will focus on some of the most relevant industry examples of how to align sales with business and marketing goals through sales team’s structure, compensation type, and a go-to-market plan.

Program Experience

World-Renowned Faculty

World-Renowned Faculty

Learn from accomplished faculty, and industry experts whose diverse backgrounds encompass a broad range of disciplines

Capstone Project

Capstone Project

Engage in a multifaceted experience where you apply program learnings to a real-world case

Guest Speakers

Guest Speakers

Accomplished academics and experts offer unique perspectives and the opportunity to put learning into practice

Peer Interaction

Peer Interaction

Stimulating discussions with like-minded global peers expand your professional network and build a supportive community

Case Studies

Case Studies

Through exploratory sessions, examine practical examples and find innovative solutions to strategic challenges

Engaging Assignments and Activities

Engaging Assignments and Activities

Hone business acumen and executive skills with try-it activities that help you redefine your potential

Case Studies

Get inspired with real-world sales management success stories. Throughout the six-week program, your program leader will review four case studies spanning diverse industries to bring sales force management concepts to life.

Becton, Dickinson and Company

Becton, Dickinson and Company

Roush Performance

Roush Performance

I.M.A.G.E.

I.M.A.G.E.

Fortis Industries

Fortis Industries

Capstone Project

Throughout this six-week program, you'll learn to motivate and accelerate the success of your sales force with a customized action plan you can start to implement immedi ately. For your capstone project, you’ll create a customized playbook of the new team-building frameworks, compensation plans, motivational strategies, analytical tools, and digital marketing techniques you learn in each module. You’ll walk away with a customized plan of new competencies for creating an empowered, engaged, motivated, and highly productive “sales machine” in your organization.

Past Participant Profile

Past participants of the Sales Team Management Strategies (Online) program come from diverse backgrounds, industries, and experiences.

Average years of work experience:

  • Less than 10 years: 18%

  • 10 to 14 years: 22%

  • 15 to 19 years: 19%

  • More than 20 years: 41%

Top industries:

  • Banking and Financial Services

  • Healthcare

  • Industrial Goods

  • IT Products

  • IT Services

Top functions:

  • Consulting

  • Finance

  • General Management

  • Marketing and Communications

  • Sales and Business Development

Top countries:

  • United States

  • Brazil

  • Mexico

  • Saudi Arabia

  • Thailand

Note: Data from across previous cohorts

Program Faculty

Miklos Sarvary
Miklos Sarvary

Carson Family Professor of Business, Co-Faculty Director, Media and Technology Program, Columbia Business School

Certificate

Certificate

Upon completion of the Sales Team Management Strategies (Online) program, you will receive a certificate of participation from Columbia Business School Executive Education. This certificate also awards two credits towards the Certificate in Business Excellence, which grants select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn More

Your digitally verified certificate will be issued in your legal name and emailed to you, at no additional cost, upon completion of the program, including all modules of the program (online, in person, or live online, inter-module). All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Columbia Business School Executive Education.

FAQs

Didn't find what you were looking for? Write to us at learner.success@emeritus.org or Schedule a call with one of our Program Advisors or call us at +1 315 387 4431 (US) / +44 203 838 0836 (UK) / +65 3138 4449 (SG)

Early registrations are encouraged. Seats fill up quickly!

Flexible payment options available.

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