Queen's Sales Management Program

Who Should Attend

Sales managers and executives at all levels of the organization.

Upcoming Sessions

May 27 to Jun 1, 2012
$8,900*

Accommodations and meals included
Discounts for Charitable Organizations
*Fees do not include HST

Location: Kingston

Donald Gordon Conference Centre
421 Union Street
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Creating a High-Performance Sales Organization

Queen’s Sales Management Program is an intensive 5-day immersion in cutting-edge sales management concepts, tools and methods. It will enhance your ability to create and lead a high-performance sales organization.

This program may be taken as one of the requirements for Queen's Executive Certificate in Leading the Sales Organization.
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This program will allow you to:

  • Create an effective sales strategy
  • Build and manage a high-performance sales organization
  • Create value for your customers
  • Maximize return on sales assets

Session leaders have extensive sales and business experience and have worked with organizations worldwide to improve sales performance.

Practical and relevant content delivered by exceptional speakers, and a commitment to unrivaled customer service, have made Queen’s Sales Management Program one of North America’s most popular sales management programs.

Program Content

The program leverages the educational power of multiple teaching tools, including classroom discussions and seminars, case studies, group interactions, and individual coaching.

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The Program is built around a four-step process:

1. Building an Effective Sales Strategy

Successful integrating the sales strategy into the corporate strategy

  • Developing and implementing an effective sales planning process at all levels – strategic, market, territory, and account
  • Integrating sales strategy into the corporate strategy
  • Aligning marketing and sales strategies and identifying your most important customers
  • Using best practices and cutting-edge sales tools to ensure the successful execution of your sales strategy

2. Creating A Winning Sales Organization

Optimizing your sales structure and performance.

  • Determining optimal sales organization size, structure, and deployment and understanding the roles and functions of the “balanced sales team”
  • Analyzing your operational and transactional cost structures and improving your return on sales assets
  • Developing an effective performance appraisal system and compensation plan
  • Implementing value-creating sales models

3. Creating Value for Your Customer

Implementing customer service tools and techniques that add real value.

  • Understanding customer buying behaviour and how to use consultative, transactional, and enterprise selling
  • Creating a “customer first” mindset throughout the organization and sales team
  • Adding value to create customer intimacy and long-term loyalty
  • Achieving and maintaining superior levels of customer service
  • Creating strategic alliances with customers to ensure long-term revenue and profitability

4. Leading A High-Performance Sales Team

Using coaching and performance management techniques to create a motivated and effective sales team.

  • Understanding the factors that affect sales performance
  • Finding, selecting, and retaining superior sales professionals
  • Refining your training and coaching techniques
  • Enhancing teamwork and managing for performance

Enhance your sales management effectiveness; increase your value to the organization.

The program will provide you with an understanding of accounting and financial concepts, and the tools with which to make better business decisions. This will enhance your management effectiveness and increase your value to the organization.

  • Improve your sales planning skills
  • Understand the roles and functions of a “balanced sales team”
  • Learn how to evaluate and manage the competitive landscape
  • Learn how to maximize return on sales assets
  • Gain insights into sales force structuring and deployment
  • Learn how to effectively recruit, reward, and retain superior sales professionals
  • Enhance your leadership skills
  • Network with a group of experienced sales managers and executives from a variety of industries
  • Learn how to lead a healthy and balanced life through the Program’s optional Lifestyle Component

New sales management ideas and practices will have a profound impact on performance.

  • Develop more integrated strategic and tactical plans across the organization
  • Drive sustainable revenue and profit growth
  • Realize a better return on sales asset
  • Increase employee retention
  • Develop stronger, more profitable relationships with key customers

Outstanding Session Leaders

Session leaders include senior professors from Queen’s School of Business and knowledgeable experts from industry. These outstanding teachers are constantly in touch with today’s business world through real-world business experience, Board memberships and their own consulting practices.

PeterJensen

Dr. Peter Jensen - Founder and CEO, Performance Coaching Inc

Peter Jensen is an internationally recognized authority on high performance. Since achieving his PhD in Sports Psychology, he has attended six Olympic Games as a member of the Canadian Olympic team and has worked with over 40 medal-winning athletes and coaches. He is currently the mental training consultant for Canada's Olympic women's hockey team. He is the author of The Inside Edge, a book that describes how to improve both your personal and organizational performance under pressure, and Igniting the Third Factor, a book on how to inspire greatness in others. Dr. Jensen is the founding partner of Performance Coaching Inc., a corporate training firm. He has been featured on ABC, CBS, CBC and CTV. Past corporate clients include BP, Nexen, TD, Syncrude, Labatt, Hydro One, RCMP, GE Capital, and Royal Bank.

JohnMonoky

Dr. John Monoky - Sales Management, University of Michigan

John Monoky is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan and a principal in Monoky Associates, a sales and marketing consulting firm. He is an active trainer and has served on the faculty of many executive development programs at several prominent U.S. universities. His primary training, consulting, and research interests focus on business-to-business marketing, sales management, and territory management. Past clients include Bristol-Myers Squibb, BusinessWeek, Ciba-Geigy, Eastman-Kodak, General Electric, Mead Paper, Miles Laboratories, Rockwell International, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Schlumberger Technologies, Southwestern Bell, Texas Instruments, 3M, Travelers Insurance, USA Today, and Weyerhaeuser.

ShawnaO'Grady

Dr. Shawna O'Grady - Human Resources and Team-Building,
Queen's School of Business

Shawna O'Grady is an authority on strategic human resources management, team-building, and the cross-cultural aspects of international business. She is an experienced team facilitator who is in high demand for her original approach to team-building. She is also the author of Border Crossings – Doing Business in the U.S., an award-winning book on international business. She has consulted with many organizations including Microsoft, MDS, Mattel, Shoppers Drug Mart, Enbridge Consumers Gas, Industry Canada, BMW, Novo Nordisk, Oracle, Xerox, Bell Canada, GlaxoSmithKline, Ministry of Finance, Canada Post Corporation, and TD Canada Trust.

JohnPliniussen

Dr. John Pliniussen - Marketing and Innovation,
Queen's School of Business

John Pliniussen is an authority on innovation, sales management and e-marketing. He has worked or consulted for several Fortune 100 companies, some of Canada’s fastest growing SMEs, many federal and provincial ministries, and numerous agencies and NPOs. His past clients include IBM, London Life, Torstar, Schindler, GM, Constellation Software, and many federal and provincial ministries.

KenWong

Mr. Ken Wong - Marketing, Sales and Business Strategy,
Queen's School of Business

Ken Wong is one of Canada’s most respected marketing professors. He has worked with the Strategic Planning Institute at Harvard University and the Conference Board of Canada, writes a regular column for Canadian Grocer and Meetings & Incentive Travel magazines and contributes to Marketing magazine, Strategy and numerous trade publications. He is a 2006 inductee into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends and past winner of the National Post’s Leader’s In Management Education award. He regularly judges the “Canada’s Best Managed Companies” and other competitions, addresses corporations and conventions around the world, and sits on a number of other advisory/directorship boards. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Marketing Association, and is Vice President, Knowledge Development, with Level 5 Brand Consulting Inc.

Session Leaders are subject to change.