Business processes of the sales department: optimization, automation, digitalization - free course from the Russian School of Management, training 16 hours, Date: December 7, 2023.

PhD, business consultant in the field of sales management. Has practical experience in reengineering in the commercial sector and branch development.

Sales transformation: optimization of business processes, implementation of CRM systems
• Search for internal reserves for sales growth.
• Using the Deming Cycle (PDCA) to develop the sales team.
• Analysis of a photo report of managers' working day. Correction of bottlenecks in sales business processes based on the results of the analysis.
• Automation of the process of collecting client databases.
• Tools for increasing the number of calls by 2 times without decreasing quality.
• Reducing customer losses due to response times and missed calls.
• Introduction of “prioritization” in working with clients.
• Formation of a sales funnel. Funnel stages. Sales funnel slices.
• Errors when building and working with a sales funnel.
• Quantitative and qualitative indicators of the sales funnel.
• Calculation of sales funnel conversion. Methods for increasing conversion.
• Working with pipeline managers.
• Case “Creating sales funnels for new and current clients, determining quantitative and qualitative indicators.”
• Increased productivity of managers through automation of operational work.
• Specialization and distribution of functions in the sales department.
• Typical business processes in sales departments and highlighting points of efficiency growth.
• Work regulations for employees. Structure of the regulations. Implementation of regulations.
• Customer development tools. Tools for increasing the average check and average revenue per client.
• CRM system: success and failure factors during implementation, audit of the current CRM system.
• CRM selection criteria.
• Key functions of CRM in sales.
• Indicators of an incorrectly configured CRM system.
• IP telephony and necessary integrations.
• Automation of work with the client base in CRM.
• Organization of control of managers using CRM.
• Types of sales reports in CRM.
• Visualization of results using Dash Board.
• Case “Audit of CRM system implementation.”
• Case “Creating a list of reports for display on the Dash Board.”

Sales Management in the Digital Age
• Implementation and management of new technology for active B2B sales.
• In what cases to use an active sales strategy in B2B markets: review of cases of successful implementation.
• How the technology of working with B2B clients is changing today and what sales managers need to do in order to develop and implement more modern and effective principles for organizing active sales.
• How to involve current staff in active sales while minimizing risks: key management techniques.
• How the digitalization of communication channels with the client changes the classic stages of sales and what should people know? what the manager should do to optimize business processes for working with clients under the changed realities of B2B markets.
• Planning for the development and attraction of new clients: key stages of working with the client (development and design of active sales, developing contacts and motivations of a potential client, creating experience, researching key client characteristics and a number of others elements).
• Why active sales in an aggressive style and manipulation are becoming a thing of the past like home telephones. How to build a modern active sales methodology and design it to suit the realities of today.
• Outlines of a new profession: manager of active digital sales. Competencies of active B2B sellers: how to design their activities and set conversion parameters for their activities.
• Active B2B sales management system: changes in the functions of the head of the active sales department from an administrator to a performance manager for active sales managers.