Advanced Selling with AI & Emotional Intelligence

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Elevate your sales performance to AI-powered excellence with this 14-course program for experienced B2B professionals. Master conversational AI integration into live calls, recognizing objection cues, responding with ROI framing, and proving impact through data. Develop advanced emotional intelligence using DISC and FORM frameworks, transforming soft skills into measurable capabilities that build trust and accelerate deals. Create value-based conversations focusing on outcomes over features, design interactive presentations, and build partnerships backed by ROI metrics. Leverage AI throughout the sales cycle—from persuasive emails with A/B testing to CRM automation based on health signals. Through hands-on projects, practice discovery techniques, emotion regulation during negotiations, and create dashboards revealing win-rate drivers. Each course emphasizes practical application with real scenarios, call simulations, and data validation. Whether using AI meeting assistants, designing success plans, or analyzing sentiment patterns, develop skills that distinguish top performers. Perfect for sales professionals combining human insight with AI capabilities, this program transforms how you connect, communicate, and close. By completion, you'll leverage emotional intelligence and AI tools to create meaningful buyer experiences that drive revenue growth.

Syllabus

Course 1: Boost Emotional Awareness
Course 2: Spark Instant Rapport
Course 3: Control Emotions in Deals
Course 4: AI Tools for Seller
Course 5: Automate CRM Nudges
Course 6: Dashboard Win Drivers
Course 7: Co-Create Success Plans
Course 8: Tailor Your Message
Course 9: Pitch Interactive Decks
Course 10: Create Win-Win Partnerships
Course 11: Unearth Needs Fast
Course 12: Use AI During Calls
Course 13: Write Persuasive Emails
Course 14: Sell Outcomes Not Features

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Creating confident, AI-enabled selling practices requires more than adopting new tools; it requires understanding how conversational signals translate into actionable insight. In this hands-on, intermediate-to-advanced course, learners explore how conversational-AI plugins and AI meeting assistants support discovery calls by surfacing signals related to engagement, sentiment, intent, and deal momentum. Through short instructional videos, guided Coach dialogues, focused readings, hands-on learning activities, and scenario-based assessments, learners practice interpreting AI-generated call outputs and extracting meaningful deal-progress indicators. Rather than treating AI outputs as conclusions, learners develop an insight-first mindset that emphasizes context, interpretation, and professional judgment. The course focuses on using conversational AI as decision support, helping sellers recognize patterns, ask better questions, validate assumptions, and evaluate next steps responsibly. Designed for experienced sellers and sales leaders, this course builds confidence in applying conversational AI within real sales workflows, strengthening discovery conversations, improving deal evaluation, and reinforcing seller accountability in AI-supported decision-making.
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Automate CRM Nudges is an intermediate, hands-on course for professionals who want to reduce churn and improve reply rates through smarter CRM automation. Rather than relying on fixed schedules, you will learn how to design workflows that respond to real customer behavior using AI-predicted health signals and engagement data. Throughout the course, you will build practical skills to configure health-based triggers, design three-touch CRM sequences, and apply clear entry and exit logic so automation feels timely, relevant, and human. You will also learn how to analyze 30-day engagement funnels, interpret stage-level drop-offs, and make focused improvements such as refining subject lines, shortening copy, and adjusting timing to raise reply rates. By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently design, validate, and optimize CRM workflows that prevent churn and improve customer engagement. This course is designed for learners who already have experience working with a CRM platform and are familiar with basic email campaigns, workflows, and engagement metrics. Prior hands-on exposure to CRM tools will help you apply the concepts quickly and get the most value from the activities.
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Boost Emotional Awareness is an intermediate-to-advanced short course within the B2B Sales Negotiation: Leveraging AI Professional Certificate that helps sales professionals read, interpret, and respond to emotions in high-stakes business conversations. In complex sales environments, success depends not only on what is said, but on understanding emotional dynamics such as tension, hesitation, confidence, and trust. This course turns emotional intelligence from a vague “soft skill” into a practical, observable capability. Learners explore the four core EI components—self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management—and apply them by observing role-play scenarios, identifying emotional cues, and designing responses that support psychological safety and negotiation progress. Through videos, coach dialogs, and hands-on observation activities, learners develop disciplined emotional awareness that replaces guesswork with structured interpretation. By the end of the course, learners can recognize emotional signals and respond with professional intent, making emotional intelligence a repeatable advantage in negotiation.
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Successful deals don’t end with a proposal — they begin with shared understanding. In this hands-on course, learners develop the skills to co-create success plans with prospects through structured collaboration. You’ll practice facilitating joint problem-solving workshops, using techniques like fishbone diagrams to surface root causes and critical risks. Then, you’ll translate those insights into clear mitigation steps and measurable outcomes documented in a statement of work. Through realistic scenarios, guided walkthroughs, and non-technical hands-on activities, you’ll learn how to move from discussion to agreement with confidence. Designed for intermediate and advanced professionals involved in solution design and client engagement, Co-Create Success Plans builds confidence in leading collaborative conversations that align teams, reduce risk, and set engagements up for success.
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High-pressure deal conversations rarely depend on logic alone. When pricing pressure increases or stakeholders challenge the value of a solution, emotions can quickly influence how the conversation unfolds. Sales professionals who can recognize and regulate these emotions are better equipped to maintain productive discussions and protect deal value. In this intermediate-level course, you will learn practical techniques to stay composed during tense negotiations and respond intentionally rather than react impulsively. You will practice simple self-regulation strategies—such as controlled breathing and strategic verbal pauses—to manage your own emotional responses during price-pressure conversations. You will also develop the ability to observe and analyze emotional cues from stakeholders. By reviewing recorded deal interactions, you will identify visible signals such as posture, tone, and gestures, and reflect on how these cues influence communication and decision-making. By strengthening both emotional control and situational awareness, you will be able to keep negotiations focused on solutions, maintain credibility in challenging conversations, and navigate complex deals with greater confidence.
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Strong partnerships don’t happen by accident—they’re designed, tested, and proven. In Create Win-Win Partnerships, learners develop the skills needed to create and evaluate high-impact SaaS partnerships that deliver value for both sides. The course begins with designing a compelling partnership Create that clearly communicates mutual value, a fair revenue-share model, and a realistic joint-campaign timeline. Learners practice structuring that resonate with complementary SaaS partners and support confident co-sell conversations. The course then shifts from creating to proof. Learners analyze post-pilot performance using practical ROI metrics such as leads generated, revenue, and customer acquisition cost. Through hands-on activities, they practice interpreting results, identifying false positives, and making evidence-based decisions about whether to scale, refine, or pivot a partnership. By the end of the course, learners are equipped to move beyond intuition and enthusiasm—building partnerships that are strategically sound, financially defensible, and ready for sustainable growth in real-world sales environments.
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Understanding why deals are won is critical for improving sales performance. In this hands-on course, you will explore how to design and interpret dashboards that reveal the true drivers of win-rate. You’ll build a dashboard that visualizes sales outcomes by discount band, negotiation length, and AI-derived sentiment, then analyze those patterns to identify which factors matter most. Through guided walkthroughs, real-world examples, and non-technical hands-on activities, you’ll practice turning raw CRM and conversation data into insights sales leaders can act on. Designed for intermediate and advanced professionals working with sales analytics, Dashboard Win Drivers builds confidence in both dashboard design and insight-driven decision-making.
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In this course you will build the skills to design and deliver interactive sales proposals that move buyers from understanding to action. Through real-world sales scenarios, learners practice using the Tell–Show–Ask framework, designing interactive moments such as live polls, and asking clearly for next steps. You will also also analyze buyer questions and meeting chat to diagnose slide ambiguity and redesign visuals to improve clarity and buyer confidence. You will emphasize on practical, job-ready techniques for Zoom-based sales presentations where clarity and interaction determine momentum.
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This course helps B2B sales professionals experienced in creating or presenting sales decks and participating in B2B sales conversations to shift from feature-led presentations to outcome-driven value conversations. You will practice converting product-centric decks into KPI-focused value decks, then evaluate and defend those decks using peer feedback and buyer decision criteria. Through short videos, readings, coach dialogues, and hands-on activities, you will build the skills needed to make value clear, credible, and defensible—so buyers can justify decisions internally and move forward with confidence.
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Spark Instant Rapport is an intermediate-to-advanced short course within the B2B Sales Negotiation: Leveraging AI Professional Certificate. The course helps sales professionals turn rapport building from an instinctive, personality-driven activity into a structured, observable, and improvable professional skill. Instead of relying on “being friendly,” learners use the FORM method (Family, Occupation, Recreation, Motivation) to open first-call conversations with intention and relevance, creating early trust and buyer warmth. The course positions rapport as something that can be measured and refined. Learners practice recognizing concrete rapport indicators during calls and documenting them clearly inside CRM systems so that relationship context becomes shared operational knowledge. They then analyze post-call warmth ratings or survey scores to compare different opening approaches and determine what actually strengthens buyer engagement. Rather than treating rapport as a soft skill that cannot be evaluated, the course shows how behavioral choices can be connected to data-driven insights. By the end of the course, learners can confidently open calls using FORM, capture meaningful relationship signals, and use simple performance metrics to justify what is working, what needs refinement, and how their communication choices shape buyer trust in modern B2B sales environments.
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Strong sales solutions often stall not because the offer is wrong, but because follow-up messages don’t align with how buyers think and decide. Buyers disengage when communication feels generic, unclear, or misaligned with their priorities. This course helps close that gap by building a practical, repeatable approach to tailoring and improving follow-up communication. Tailor Your Message focuses on two essential skills. First, you’ll learn to diagnose a buyer’s communication and decision style using the DISC framework and apply those insights to write follow-up emails that are clear, relevant, and easy to evaluate. Second, you’ll learn how to assess and improve those messages using buyer feedback and a scoring rubric. The course reframes follow-ups as decision-support tools, not summaries or persuasion attempts. You’ll practice identifying buyer signals—especially for Analytical buyers—and translating them into concrete writing decisions around structure, tone, and evidence. Through Coach Dialogues, hands-on activities, and assessments, you’ll learn to tailor follow-ups, interpret buyer feedback, and make focused improvements. By the end, you’ll be able to craft aligned follow-up emails, evaluate their effectiveness objectively, and continuously refine your approach to support clearer, faster buyer decisions.
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Unearth Needs Fast equips professionals to surface unstated customer needs in high-stakes discovery conversations and prove they understood them. Addressing cognitive gaps like the Expert’s Shortcut and Mind-Reading Bias, the course introduces a rigorous framework for executive interactions. You will practice focused discovery using the Mirror–probe–validate loop, then audit their listening through transcripts, paraphrasing, clarifying questions, and talk-to-listen ratios. This dual approach ensures alignment is verified through objective evidence, not instinct. By reframing listening as a measurable discipline, the course reduces discovery risk, strengthens CRM accuracy, and prevents the Assumption Ripple Effect. Participants leave with the tools to separate Customer Signal from Rep Noise and protect deal integrity across the sales cycle.
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“Use AI During Calls” is an intermediate, hands-on course for customer-facing professionals who want to use conversational AI to perform better in live calls—and prove the impact with data. You’ll learn how to recognize real-time objection cues like pricing pressure, respond with a clear ROI framing, and confirm next steps with action, owner, and timeframe. Through guided coaching, a dual-role call simulation, and a prompt-driven quiz, you’ll build an in-call response plan you can use immediately. Then you’ll export results from ten calls with AI and ten without, create a simple chart showing next-step rate lift and call-length tradeoffs, and craft a retro-ready narrative (claim, evidence, caveats, recommendation). To get the most from this course, you should have basic experience using AI and creating effective prompts, as well as B2B and B2C sales skills.
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Write Persuasive Emails is an intermediate-to-advanced short course within the B2B Sales Negotiation: Leveraging AI Professional Certificate. In this course, you will learn how to combine persuasive communication with AI-enabled experimentation to improve your outreach performance using evidence rather than instinct. You will apply Cialdini’s principles of social proof and scarcity to write a clear, credible objection-handling email and then validate its effectiveness through a lightweight A/B test. Rather than treating AI as a replacement for your judgment, this course positions AI as an accelerator—helping you draft faster, explore variations, and generate performance insights more efficiently. You will calculate reply-rate lift, interpret results responsibly, and communicate your findings in a Slack-style summary that mirrors real sales team workflows. Basic familiarity with B2B sales outreach and email writing is enough - no statistics or technical AI knowledge is required to complete this course. By the end of the course, you will be able to write persuasive emails, test what works, and make informed decisions in modern, AI-augmented B2B sales environments.