We enable entrepreneurs, sales managers and salespeople to grow their Sales Leadership Skills FAST.

Sales and Sales Management can be frustrating, especially if you feel you are not quite up to your own ambitions and you are missing something that makes you more successful or simply makes your life easier.

You know you could learn a few important things that would help you but you can't afford spending a week in class or countless hours online. You would rather go for a hyper dense course that matches your busy schedule and gives you an extensive view on what makes the difference in Sales and Sales Management.

EPFL Innovation Park created a short 4 half-day course to get your hands on the tips and tricks to build up your sales skills and to manage a fast-growing sales organisation. A course that will help you get in the league of salespeople and sales managers of companies that outperform their competition.

Is this course for you? We interview every participant to make sure it does.

PROGRAM

Half-day 1

Strategies for growing sales

Models of Go-to-Market, choosing and mixing Direct Sales, Channel, Web and Commercial Joint Ventures
Sales Organisation models and how to make them work
Using Sales Tactics to support your Sales Strategies
Revenue Acquisition, Recurring Revenue Streams and Lifetime Value Plans
Alternative product offerings to support Sales Growth
Using Product Market Fit loops to tune your Sales Strategy and Product Offering
Using Sales Advisory Boards and Market Experts

Half-day 2

Sales process & client management

Full Sell Cycle overview from Lead Generation to Deal Closing and Up-selling
Selling the Value Proposition and managing the Client Buying Centre
Sales cycle Characterisation and Optimising techniques
Client and Partners relationship management, Account management and Growth plans
Customer development boards - feedback loop on products and services

Half-day 3

Sales force automation & sales management tools

Lead generation and Lead management tools
Web Sales and Sales chat bots
Sales opportunity Pipeline management tools
Client Account Management tools
Channel Partners opportunity and account management tools
Sales Key Performance Indicators and Sales forecasting tools

Half-day 4

Managing & growing sales organisations

Founders and CEO role in Sales - growing a sales organisation over time
Recruiting and Hiring Sales and Sales Management people
Management by Objectives for Sales people
Sales Management routines
Sales personality types and Management Styles
Managing territories assignment, sales team competition, egos and fairness
Managing career paths/plans/expectations, retaining and firing sales people

TESTIMONIALS

Martin Fuchsberger

CEO, co-founder, Drone Harmony AG

" I very much enjoyed participating in the Sales Management Academy course.

I gained a lot of valuable and actionable insights that will help me further shape my startup.

My only regret is that I did not find this course earlier in my startup journey."

Nathalie Leroy

Head of Presales at icCube

"The strength of Fast Track Sales Academy course lies on the actionable ways to improve your sales processes, independently of your company's stage. The professional diversity of the team enriched the course's content and debates in each session.

I definitely recommend the course if you are looking to have a deeper understanding on sales models, processes, tools, management and growth. Two thumbs up!"

Dimitri Torregrossa

CEO and Founder at Aurora's Grid

"Fast Track sales class: very useful! The Trainers started from the basic knowledge of sale-cycles and gradually explained how to manage sales with specific tools and dedicated methodologies. Very useful the tips on “recruiting sales-team”. I definitively suggest this class to start-up facing off with sales management!"

Stéphane Janiszewski Fast Track Sales Academy

Stéphane Janiszewski

Head of Key Account Management at LEMO

"A perfect fit for what I was looking for as the course gives a truly holistic view of the Sales function, covering all key aspects and all angles! As an experienced sales professional with mostly big corporation background, it gave me exactly what I needed to transfer into the exciting world of smaller and more agile organisations as I was able to combine my "corporate" experience with the content of the course geared towards startups and SMEs. All of this in a fun atmosphere and an exciting blend of participants."