Generative AI for Sales Growth Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Sales Managers, Account Executives and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-S-071

Before you join: Participants should have practical experience in a sales, account management, business development or sales enablement role.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

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Course overview

Sales teams can use generative AI to research accounts, prepare relevant outreach, improve discovery preparation, draft value messages and reduce administrative work after customer conversations. The commercial opportunity is significant when AI supports disciplined selling methods and accurate customer evidence. The risk is equally practical: unverified claims, confidential data entered into public tools, generic messaging and poor judgement can damage trust, create compliance exposure and weaken sales performance.

This course shows participants how to apply generative AI throughout a B2B sales cycle. Participants build structured prompts for account research, ideal customer profile development, prospecting, discovery, qualification, value selling, proposals, account growth and renewal preparation. They use established sales frameworks including SPIN Selling, MEDDICC and Jobs to Be Done, while learning how to assess AI outputs for accuracy, evidence, tone and commercial usefulness.

Instruction combines short briefings, sales cases, facilitated group work, prompt-writing practice, simulated customer scenarios and peer review of sales outputs. Participants work with realistic account information and assess where AI can assist, where human judgement remains essential and how managers can measure results. Each participant leaves with a practical Generative AI Sales Playbook containing approved prompt patterns, workflow priorities, quality controls and a 90-day application plan.

The course is suited to sales professionals and commercial managers responsible for revenue growth, pipeline quality, account development or sales enablement. It is particularly relevant for teams selling complex products and services to enterprise, public-sector, financial-services, industrial, technology and professional-services buyers.

What you will be able to do

  • Design structured prompts for account research, outreach and sales-content drafting
  • Evaluate generative AI outputs using evidence, accuracy and customer-value criteria
  • Build AI-assisted ideal customer profile, persona and account-priority analyses
  • Create personalised multichannel prospecting sequences from verified buying signals
  • Apply SPIN Selling and MEDDICC within AI-supported discovery and qualification workflows
  • Produce value hypotheses, ROI models and proposal content from customer evidence
  • Establish data-handling, human-review and audit controls for sales AI use
  • Develop a 90-day AI sales adoption plan with measures and ownership

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Reduce preparation time for account research, call planning and follow-up actions
  • Write more relevant outreach using customer evidence and buying-trigger analysis
  • Improve discovery quality through AI-assisted question guides and call summaries
  • Build defensible value cases, ROI assumptions and proposal narratives faster
  • Demonstrate responsible AI judgement in customer-facing commercial work

For your organisation

  • Increase seller capacity by reducing repetitive research, drafting and administration time
  • Improve outreach relevance through consistent segmentation, trigger and persona methods
  • Strengthen pipeline quality through better discovery, qualification and next-step discipline
  • Reduce customer-facing AI risks with defined data, approval and claims controls
  • Create measurable sales AI adoption through prioritised use cases and performance metrics

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can identify high-value sales tasks for generative AI and apply appropriate human judgement controls.

  • Generative AI mechanics, token limits, context windows and probabilistic outputs
  • Distinguishing retrieval-grounded responses from unsupported model-generated assertions in sales conversations
  • Sales workflow map identifies research, outreach, discovery and proposal tasks
  • Human judgement checkpoints for customer claims, pricing and commitment decisions
  • Prompt components: role, task, context, constraints, examples and output format
  • Hallucination, bias, confidentiality and intellectual-property risks in sales content
  • Use-case prioritisation matrix scores revenue impact, feasibility, risk and adoption

Participants can write, test and improve prompts for reliable sales research and content outputs.

  • Structured prompt pattern: objective, audience, inputs, constraints and acceptance criteria
  • Build account-research prompts from annual reports, filings and CRM notes
  • Few-shot examples calibrate tone, evidence standards and response structure
  • Iterative prompting diagnoses weak outputs through targeted revision questions
  • Source-grounding instructions require citations, uncertainty labels and missing-information flags
  • Reusable prompt library records approved patterns, inputs and quality criteria
  • Output evaluation rubric checks accuracy, relevance, voice and actionability

Participants can develop evidence-based segment, persona and account hypotheses using generative AI.

  • Jobs to Be Done frames customer progress, triggers and desired outcomes
  • AI-assisted ICP hypotheses combine firmographic, behavioural and buying-signal data
  • Segment scoring ranks fit, intent, value potential and accessibility
  • Create persona briefs distinguishing users, influencers, buyers and blockers
  • Account plans connect stakeholder priorities, initiatives, risks and value themes
  • Prompted research separates verified facts from inferred account hypotheses
  • Buying-committee maps identify power, influence, urgency and information needs

Participants can create targeted prospecting sequences based on verified account signals and buyer priorities.

  • Signal-based prospecting uses funding, hiring, earnings and technology-change events
  • AI drafts account-specific hypotheses from public evidence and CRM history
  • Trigger-event playbooks define timely outreach angles and qualification questions
  • Multichannel sequences coordinate email, telephone, social selling and follow-up
  • Personalisation matrices match message themes to persona, trigger and channel
  • Generate subject-line variants without unsupported claims or false familiarity
  • Cadence metrics track reply rates, meetings, conversions and opt-outs

Participants can use AI to prepare discovery conversations, assess qualification evidence and improve follow-through.

  • SPIN Selling structures situation, problem, implication and need-payoff questions
  • AI-generated discovery guides adapt questions to account hypotheses and roles
  • Active-listening notes separate stated needs, evidence, assumptions and next steps
  • MEDDICC qualification tests metrics, buyer process, pain and competition
  • Call-summary prompts extract commitments, risks, objections and follow-up actions
  • Conversation intelligence reviews talk ratios, question quality and stakeholder participation
  • Objection patterns inform revised discovery questions and evidence requests

Participants can create credible value messages and commercial cases supported by customer evidence.

  • Value hypothesis links customer pains, capabilities, outcomes and proof points
  • Benefit statements translate product features into measurable business consequences
  • AI drafts role-specific value messages from approved customer evidence
  • Business-case assumptions distinguish baseline, target state and attribution limits
  • ROI models calculate benefit ranges, costs, payback and sensitivity
  • Proof-point libraries classify case evidence by segment, outcome and credibility
  • Claims review prevents fabricated benchmarks, testimonials and competitive assertions

Participants can use generative AI to produce accurate, buyer-focused proposals and deal plans.

  • Proposal prompts convert discovery evidence into structured solution narratives
  • Executive summaries state customer priorities, proposed outcomes and decision rationale
  • Mutual action plans assign milestones, owners, dependencies and exit criteria
  • AI-generated slides follow approved messaging, visual standards and source controls
  • Proposal review checklists test accuracy, differentiation, commercial terms and risks
  • Red-team prompts identify unsupported claims, gaps and likely buyer objections
  • Version-control conventions preserve approved content, assumptions and stakeholder comments

Participants can apply AI to identify account-growth opportunities and prepare renewal conversations.

  • Whitespace analysis identifies cross-sell opportunities from portfolio and usage data
  • AI synthesises account reviews into risks, growth plays and stakeholder actions
  • Customer-health signals combine adoption, service issues, sentiment and renewal dates
  • QBR agendas connect realised value, priorities, risks and future commitments
  • Expansion hypotheses require customer evidence, commercial viability and sponsor support
  • Renewal playbooks address adoption gaps, competitive threats and procurement timing
  • Account-plan prompts protect confidential data through approved information boundaries

Participants can apply governance controls that protect customer data and commercial credibility.

  • Data classification determines permissible inputs for public and enterprise models
  • Consent and privacy requirements shape customer-data use in prompts
  • Human review gates control pricing, legal, regulatory and contractual statements
  • NIST AI RMF functions frame govern, map, measure and manage activities
  • Prompt-injection tests expose malicious instructions within shared documents and emails
  • Audit trails record source material, prompts, outputs, approvals and corrections
  • Vendor assessment compares retention, training use, access controls and integrations

Participants can establish a measured AI sales adoption plan for their role or team.

  • Use-case scorecards prioritise sales applications by value, risk and readiness
  • Baseline metrics define current conversion, cycle-time, quality and productivity performance
  • Experiment designs compare AI-assisted and standard workflows using controlled cohorts
  • Adoption dashboards track usage, quality scores, revenue influence and exceptions
  • Manager coaching routines review prompts, outputs, judgement and customer outcomes
  • Operating procedures assign ownership for libraries, approvals, monitoring and updates
  • Personal 90-day plan specifies use cases, measures, stakeholders and review dates

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Generative AI Sales Playbook
  2. Sales prompt library
  3. Account intelligence template
  4. AI-assisted discovery guide
  5. Sales AI governance checklist
  6. 90-day adoption plan

Who should attend

  • Sales Managers — need repeatable AI-supported workflows and coaching standards for their teams
  • Account Executives — need faster account preparation, stronger discovery and relevant value messaging
  • Key Account Managers — need structured support for account growth, renewals and stakeholder planning
  • Business Development Representatives — need better prospect research and personalised outbound sequences
  • Sales Enablement Managers — need governed prompt libraries, content standards and adoption measures
  • Commercial Directors — need practical controls for revenue-focused AI adoption across sales functions

Skills and tools covered

AI prompt designAccount researchSales qualificationValue messagingProposal developmentAI governance

Tools and standards

SPIN Selling, MEDDICC, Jobs to Be Done, NIST AI RMF

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish sales methods, AI concepts and risk controls. Participants analyse account evidence, draft and refine prompts, review AI-generated sales materials and compare outputs against quality criteria. Group exercises use realistic prospecting, discovery, qualification, proposal and account-growth scenarios. Simulations focus on judgement calls that require human review, including customer claims, pricing and confidential information. Facilitated application planning converts course methods into role-specific workflows, measures and approval practices.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have practical experience in a sales, account management, business development or sales enablement role. They should understand their organisation's sales process, customer types, product or service offer, and common sales metrics such as pipeline value, conversion rate and sales cycle length. Familiarity with a CRM system and standard office software is useful. No coding, data science, prompt-engineering background or prior generative AI training is required. Participants do not need an existing licence for a specific AI platform.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should have practical sales, account management, business development or sales enablement experience. No coding, data science or prior generative AI training is required.

Bring a laptop if attending in person, plus non-confidential examples of your sales process, customer segments and typical sales materials. Do not bring customer personal data, confidential pricing or restricted documents unless your organisation has approved their use.

The course is designed for B2B salespeople, account managers, business development staff, sales managers and sales enablement professionals. It is most useful for people who research accounts, hold customer conversations, develop proposals or manage account growth.

This course applies generative AI to concrete sales activities, from prospecting through renewals. It also uses established sales frameworks such as SPIN Selling, MEDDICC and Jobs to Be Done rather than treating AI as a generic productivity tool.

Participants leave with reusable prompt patterns, evaluation criteria, workflow priorities and a 90-day application plan. These can be adapted to approved AI tools, CRM processes and sales governance requirements.

The five-day programme runs from 08:30 to 16:30 each day and provides about 32.5 contact hours. Time is divided among instruction, sales cases, group exercises, simulations, output review and individual application planning.

Questions about this course?

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