Sales Technology and Digital Selling Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Sales Managers, Account Managers 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-064

Before you join: Participants should have experience in a customer-facing sales, account management, business development, sales operations or commercial management 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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Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Sales technology investments fail to improve revenue performance when CRM data is unreliable, sellers use disconnected tools, outreach is poorly targeted, and managers cannot see the evidence behind forecasts. Sales professionals need practical ways to connect digital tools with a disciplined sales process: identifying the right accounts, engaging buying groups, running effective virtual meetings, maintaining credible pipeline data, and acting on performance signals without treating automation as a substitute for judgement.

This course covers the sales technology operating model, CRM governance, digital prospecting, multichannel outreach, virtual selling, sales content, forecasting, automation and responsible AI use. Participants apply methods including ideal customer profile scoring, SPIN questioning, MEDDICC qualification, tell-show-tell demonstrations, weighted pipeline forecasting and RACI accountability. They learn to define meaningful CRM stages, inspect pipeline quality, interpret activity and conversion metrics, and build technology-supported workflows that improve seller focus and customer relevance.

Teaching combines short instructor briefings with realistic cases, group analysis, sales simulations and structured application planning. Cases reflect complex B2B and institutional sales situations, including account-based selling, long buying cycles, procurement scrutiny and distributed stakeholder groups. Participants leave with a practical sales technology application plan, CRM data standards, a digital prospecting sequence, a pipeline inspection model and an adoption scorecard. The five-day instructor-led course is available in classrooms in 50+ cities or live online, runs from 08:30 to 16:30 each day, and provides approximately 32.5 contact hours and a certificate of completion.

The course is suited to sales professionals and managers who already work with customer data, sales processes or commercial targets and need to improve the disciplined use of CRM, digital channels, automation and sales analytics.

What you will be able to do

  • Design a sales technology operating model linking workflows, data, tools and accountability
  • Configure CRM stage criteria, mandatory fields and data-quality controls
  • Build an ideal customer profile and account-prioritisation model
  • Create multichannel prospecting sequences using persona, trigger and engagement data
  • Conduct virtual discovery and demonstration meetings using SPIN and tell-show-tell
  • Inspect pipeline quality and produce weighted forecasts using stage evidence
  • Evaluate automation and generative AI use cases against value, risk and data readiness
  • Develop a 90-day sales technology adoption plan with measures and ownership

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Produce more targeted account plans and outreach based on buyer signals
  • Run virtual discovery calls with clearer questioning and documented next steps
  • Improve credibility with managers through evidence-based pipeline updates
  • Use CRM dashboards to identify stalled deals and focused follow-up actions
  • Assess AI-generated sales content before sharing it with prospects

For your organisation

  • Higher-quality CRM records supporting reliable pipeline and forecast reviews
  • More consistent prospecting across priority accounts and target buyer roles
  • Reduced seller time lost to duplicate activity and unclear workflow ownership
  • Better conversion insight from standardised stages, qualification and reporting
  • Safer adoption of automation and AI through defined governance controls

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can map a sales technology operating model that connects customer journeys, seller workflows, data and accountability.

  • Digital buying behaviours mapped across research, evaluation, consensus and renewal stages
  • Seller technology stack mapped to workflow, data sources and handoffs
  • Revenue process stages defined from prospecting through expansion and retention
  • Technology adoption risks assessed using workflow friction and data-quality indicators
  • Buyer committee roles identified through the buying-centre model
  • Sales technology principles aligned with customer consent, trust and relevance

Participants can define CRM data standards and stage governance that support reliable sales execution and reporting.

  • CRM account, contact, opportunity and activity objects configured for pipeline visibility
  • Mandatory fields designed using minimum viable data and stage-exit criteria
  • Data hygiene routines address duplicates, stale records, ownership and missing fields
  • Opportunity stages governed through entry criteria, exit criteria and required evidence
  • CRM reports distinguish activity volume, conversion rates and pipeline coverage
  • CRM dashboards separate leading indicators from lagging revenue outcomes

Participants can prioritise target accounts and build research-led prospecting approaches for relevant buyer roles.

  • Ideal customer profile scored by firmographic, technographic, trigger and fit criteria
  • Account prioritisation combines ICP fit, intent signals and whitespace potential
  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator searches built with persona, geography and buying signals
  • Contact data validated against source, recency, permission and role relevance
  • Trigger-event research turns funding, hiring and change signals into outreach hypotheses
  • Prospecting sequences balance email, phone, social touchpoints and response windows

Participants can create targeted, measurable outreach sequences across email, telephone and social channels.

  • Persona-based value messages connect business pains, outcomes and proof points
  • Email subject lines and openings tested through A/B test design
  • Cadence design sets touch frequency, channel order, stop rules and ownership
  • Social selling interactions build credibility before direct meeting requests
  • Call scripts use permission-based openings, relevance statements and discovery questions
  • Outreach performance reviewed through deliverability, reply, meeting and unsubscribe rates

Participants can plan and lead virtual sales meetings that generate meaningful customer insight and agreed actions.

  • Virtual meeting preparation confirms agenda, stakeholder roles, platform and contingencies
  • Discovery calls use SPIN questioning to surface needs, implications and value
  • Digital body-language cues and participation patterns guide facilitation choices
  • Screen-sharing demos follow problem, capability, proof and next-step structure
  • Mutual action plans record decisions, owners, dates, dependencies and risks
  • Meeting recordings converted into CRM notes, tasks and stakeholder follow-up

Participants can align sales content and demonstrations with buyer questions, stakeholder roles and deal progression.

  • Content audit maps assets to buyer questions, stages and stakeholder roles
  • Value propositions structured with problem, impact, differentiated capability and evidence
  • Demo scripts follow the tell-show-tell method and role-specific use cases
  • Digital sales rooms organise documents, stakeholders, next steps and engagement signals
  • Proposal content standardised with approved claims, case evidence and commercial assumptions
  • Content engagement data informs follow-up priorities without replacing seller judgement

Participants can qualify opportunities, inspect pipeline evidence and communicate credible sales forecasts.

  • Pipeline inspection tests deal age, stage validity, next steps and conversion
  • Opportunity qualification applies MEDDICC evidence to complex B2B sales decisions
  • Forecast categories distinguish commit, best case, pipeline and upside
  • Weighted pipeline forecasts use stage probabilities, close dates and deal values
  • Win-loss analysis separates controllable sales causes from market and product factors
  • Dashboard narratives explain variance, risk concentration and corrective actions

Participants can assess and govern automation and AI use cases that support seller productivity and customer relevance.

  • Workflow automation routes leads, creates tasks and enforces follow-up service levels
  • Lead scoring combines fit, behaviour, intent and sales acceptance criteria
  • Generative AI prompts produce account briefs, call plans and draft outreach
  • Human review checks AI outputs for accuracy, tone, confidentiality and bias
  • Automation rules prevent duplicate messaging, orphaned leads and premature escalation
  • AI use cases prioritised by value, risk, data readiness and adoption

Participants can apply practical data, access and vendor controls to sales technology workflows.

  • Consent management distinguishes lawful marketing permissions from legitimate sales outreach
  • GDPR principles applied to personal data collection, retention and access
  • Role-based access controls limit CRM visibility by job responsibility
  • Data-quality scorecards track completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency and uniqueness
  • Vendor due diligence reviews integrations, data processing terms and security controls
  • Sales communications retained under documented retention schedules and legal holds

Participants can prepare a practical plan for improving sales technology adoption, governance and commercial results.

  • Sales technology maturity assessment identifies process, data, skills and governance gaps
  • Use-case prioritisation scores revenue impact, effort, risk and adoption readiness
  • RACI matrix assigns ownership for administration, data stewardship, coaching and support
  • Adoption metrics track active use, workflow compliance, proficiency and business outcomes
  • Manager coaching cadence connects dashboard evidence to observable seller behaviours
  • 90-day application plan specifies actions, milestones, measures and stakeholder commitments

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

What you take back to work

  1. Sales technology operating model canvas
  2. CRM data standards and stage-exit checklist
  3. Ideal customer profile and account-prioritisation matrix
  4. Multichannel prospecting sequence template
  5. Pipeline inspection and weighted forecast model
  6. 90-day sales technology adoption plan

Who should attend

  • Sales Managers — need consistent CRM use, pipeline visibility and coachable seller behaviours
  • Account Managers — need stronger digital engagement across complex customer buying groups
  • Business Development Managers — need repeatable prospecting and account-prioritisation methods
  • Sales Operations Professionals — need practical standards for CRM data, reporting and workflow governance
  • Key Account Managers — need digital methods for stakeholder mapping, value communication and account growth
  • Commercial Excellence Managers — need an adoption framework for sales tools, analytics and automation

Skills and tools covered

CRM data governanceDigital prospectingVirtual sellingPipeline forecastingSales automationTechnology adoption planning

Tools and standards

Salesforce, HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, MEDDICC

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short briefings to introduce methods, followed by cases, group exercises, role-based sales simulations and individual application planning. Participants work with CRM records, account research, outreach examples, virtual-meeting scenarios and pipeline reports modelled on complex B2B sales situations. Facilitated reviews compare decisions against defined evidence, data standards and customer outcomes. Trainers adapt cases and discussion to the cohort's sector, sales cycle, technology environment and level of commercial responsibility.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have experience in a customer-facing sales, account management, business development, sales operations or commercial management role. They should understand their organisation's basic sales stages, customer types and revenue measures, and be able to discuss real opportunities from their own pipeline. Familiarity with a CRM system is useful, but advanced administration, coding, data science and prior experience with automation platforms are not required. The course explains the relevant technology concepts before applying them to sales workflows and management decisions.

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 exposure to sales, account management, business development, sales operations or commercial management. They do not need CRM administration, coding or data science experience, but should understand their own sales process and customer types.

Bring a laptop for live online delivery and, where permitted, non-confidential examples of a target account, sales stages, CRM reports or outreach materials. Personal customer data, confidential pricing and restricted internal documents should not be shared.

The course suits sales managers, account managers, business development managers, key account managers, sales operations staff and commercial excellence professionals. It is particularly relevant for teams selling through long cycles, multiple stakeholders or formal procurement processes.

This course focuses on how salespeople and managers use technology to improve sales process discipline, customer engagement, pipeline quality and adoption. It does not teach system configuration at administrator level, nor does it focus only on negotiation, presentation or closing skills.

Participants leave with reusable templates for CRM standards, prospecting, pipeline inspection and adoption planning. The final module converts these materials into a 90-day plan with actions, measures, owners and stakeholder commitments.

Each day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides about 6.5 contact hours, for approximately 32.5 hours in total. Time is divided across ten teaching modules, with briefings, cases, simulations, group work and application planning integrated throughout.

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