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certified sales manager / Sales Manager

Successful leadership - strategic selling - confident management

This course is held in German.
Leading sales teams, selling strategically, negotiating confidently and managing successfully in sales are your core tasks as a sales manager. For a professional sales manager, excellent self-management and time management, effectiveness and efficiency in team leadership and strategic orientation are important success factors. This further training course provides you with optimal support in achieving your learning objectives and offers you a valuable, self-contained qualification that covers all areas of activity of sales managers - sales managers with a high level of practical relevance.

Certified by the Hochschule der Wirtschaft für Management (HdWM), Mannheim

This further training course was designed in cooperation with the Mannheim University of Applied Management Sciences and meets the university's quality standards in terms of overall concept, content, trainers and examination. As a result, participants benefit from high-quality qualifications with guaranteed topicality, high practical relevance and excellent trainers.

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Local. Digital - your choice: You have the option of choosing between face-to-face or live online for almost all course modules.
Compulsory module 1
90 min.
Creative time management - mastering tasks according to type/E-Learning
Compulsory module 2 (attendance or live online)
2 days
Leading sales teams successfully
Leading sales teams successfully

Approximately 2 weeks before your classroom training (1 day online):

  • 1. e-learning - Leading teams successfully (online learning time: approx. 4 hours)
  • 2. e-learning - Leading virtual teams successfully (online learning time: approx. 4 hours)

Classroom training (2 days):

  • Your self-development as a sales manager
  • Increase the performance of your sales team
  • Training for top performance and coaching your sales staff
  • Conducting employee appraisals in sales
Compulsory module 3 (attendance or live online)
2 days
Strategic selling
Strategic selling
  • Strategic selling: Instruments and methods
  • Using purchasing networks and processes for your own sales success
  • Optimize sales processes
  • Value selling: the right solution from the customer's perspective
  • Excursus: Strategy and tactics in sales and negotiation talks
Compulsory module 4
approx. 2 hours
Negotiate skillfully | E-Learning
Compulsory module 5 (attendance or live online)
3 days
Successful sales management
Successful sales management
  • Develop and implement sales strategies
  • Developing efficient sales processes
  • Practical methods and tools for successful sales management
  • Development of sales teams
  • Motivation of sales teams
Compulsory modules can be waived with proof of appropriate qualification (confirmation of participation, certificates, work certificates, etc.).

Elective module 1 (attendance or live online)
2 days
supervisor in sales for the first time
supervisor in sales for the first time
  • From salesperson to manager - what is changing?
  • Implementation in practice
  • The basics of motivation
  • Developing your own management style
  • Management of office and field staff
  • The first 100 days - what tactical mistakes should be avoided?
Elective module 2 (attendance or live online)
2 days
Selling professionally II
Selling professionally II
  • Basics of sales psychology
  • Managing customer relationships
  • Evaluate customer potential
  • Customer-oriented argumentation and persuasion strategies
Elective module 3 (attendance or live online)
2 days
Managing key accounts professionally I
Managing key accounts professionally I
  • Key Account Management (KAM) put to the test
  • What characterizes a professional approach to key account management
  • Potentially effective key account analyses
  • Importance of the key account plan
  • Key Account Manager:in as a success factor
Elective module 4 (attendance or live online)
2 days
Telephone training for internal sales and customer service
Telephone training for internal sales and customer service
  • Closer to the market - closer to the customer
  • More charisma on the phone
  • In dialog with the customer
  • Communication method kit
  • Psychology on the phone
  • When things get difficult: Mastering conflicts
Elective modules can be waived upon proof of appropriate qualification (confirmation of participation, certificates, work certificates, etc.).

Lessons learned - repetition of exam-relevant content
E-test
approx. 70 minutes
Further training to become a certified sales manager / sales manager
Further training to become a certified sales manager / sales manager

You will complete the e-exam on your computer at work or at home. The contents of all compulsory classroom modules will be tested in written form (time required: 70 minutes). Upon successful completion of the final exam, you will receive the recognized certificate from the Haufe Akademie and the Mannheim School of Business for Management, " certified sales manager / Sales Manager.

As part of the "certified sales manager/Sales Manager" training course, you will complete six modules (five of which are compulsory and one optional). After the course, you will take the written final examination for the "certified sales manager - Sales Manager" course. The entire course consists of nine days of training, e-learning and the e-exam.

 

With this practice-oriented further training to become a sales manager , you will lay the foundation for your successful work as a sales manager. You will acquire versatile professional and methodological skills.

 

  • You have the flexibility to decide when and where you take the individual modules.
  • We recommend that you attend the elective seminar first and follow the recommended sequence for the compulsory seminars.
  • Complete all modules within approx. one to two years.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

High flexibility: You decide when and where you attend the individual modules.

Certification: This recognized qualification gives you a head start as a "certified sales manager manager".

Final examination: This documents your in-depth knowledge as a basis for the further development of your professional career.

Individual feedback: In each module you will receive practical impulses and individual feedback from our trainer.

Recommended for

All current and future sales managers, sales managers, account managers and key account managers who want to put their work on a professional and solid footing and benefit from flexible implementation. This recognized training course is primarily aimed at specialists and (junior) managers and career changers in sales.

Final examination

Examination requirements

Completion of the compulsory and elective modules is a prerequisite.

Form of examination

Written final exam - e-exam. To save travel costs and time, you can take the e-exam on your computer at work or at home.

Exam contents

The contents of all compulsory modules (training courses) are tested in written form (time requirement: approx. 70 minutes). 

After successfully completing the final examination, you will receive the recognized certificate of Haufe Akademie and the Mannheim School of Business for Management " certified sales manager – Sales Manager". This will document your in-depth knowledge as a basis for further developing your professional career.

Open Badges - Show what you can do digitally too.

Open Badges are recognized, digital certificates of participation. These verifiable credentials are the current standard for integration in career networks such as LinkedIn.

With them, you digitally demonstrate the competences you possess. After successful completion, you will receive an Open Badge from us.

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Sales Manager: Training with certificate

If you want to be successful as a salesperson today, you need a wide range of skills. In addition to strategic thinking, negotiating skills and leadership qualities are also important soft skills. With this Sales Manager training course, you will create the basis for long-term sales success in your company.

Successful selling can be learned

The image of the "born salesperson" who achieves quick success and could sell customers ice cream in Antarctica thanks to their eloquence has now become obsolete. In dynamic, modern companies, the large field of sales requires far more than intuitive sales skills. This nine-day classroom-based Sales Manager course, supplemented by e-learning, prepares you and your managers optimally for today's challenges in sales. It teaches practical and clear methods for successful sales negotiations and at the same time provides solutions for sales and employee management. The course content was designed in cooperation with the Mannheim School of Management (HdWM). This gives the Sales Manager training a scientific foundation and goes far beyond standard further training.

Sound know-how for future managers and career changers in sales

This sales manager training gives sales employees the necessary push to put their professional qualifications on a solid footing. The nine-day training can be perfectly adapted to the current working day through e-learning and variable modules. This makes it easy to continue training while working and gives participants the opportunity to put what they have learned directly into practice. All course participants have the option of taking an e-exam to obtain a final certificate. The certificate is a profound proof of your acquired knowledge in the field of sales management and is the perfect addition to your CV if you are looking for further professional orientation. For companies, this sales manager training offers the opportunity to bring their own sales teams up to the same level of performance and knowledge in order to strengthen sales and distribution in the long term.

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Booking number
3539
€ 6.290,- plus VAT
10 days
3 compulsory seminars, 1 elective seminar, e-learning and e-exam
with certificate
German
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10 days
3 compulsory seminars, 1 elective seminar, e-learning and e-exam
In-person or Online
with certificate

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