Overview
Coursera Flash Sale
40% Off Coursera Plus for 3 Months!
Grab it
Generative AI (GenAI) is a powerful tool that enables sales professionals to connect, engage, and close deals faster and more effectively. This specialization gives you the skills to use GenAI in your sales workflow to achieve better results quickly.
During this program, you’ll learn the core concepts of GenAI, including how large language models (LLMs) power tools like ChatGPT, DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, CoPilot, and Gemini. You’ll also discover how AI creates text, images, and other media, and explore its applications across industries.
You’ll then build your prompt engineering skills and learn how to get high-quality, reliable results from AI. Plus, you’ll practice techniques such as zero-shot and few-shot prompting, and others to improve accuracy and creativity.
Finally, you’ll apply GenAI to sales activities across roles; whether you’re a sales representative, account manager, sales manager, or director, operations or enablement specialist, or business development manager. You’ll learn to generate and score leads, segment accounts, personalize outreach, and streamline follow-ups. You’ll also create persuasive LinkedIn messages, high-converting emails, compelling proposals, dynamic presentations, and simulate client conversations with AI-powered chatbots to accelerate deal closures.
If you’re keen to leverage the power of GenAI in your sales activities to produce powerful results that will fuel your sales career, enroll today.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Generative AI: Introduction and Applications
- Course 2: Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics
- Course 3: Generative AI: Boost Your Sales Career
Courses
-
As generative AI (GenAI) reshapes workplaces and job roles, using it effectively is now essential. Prompt engineering is the key to directing GenAI models and refining their output for desired results. This course is for professionals, executives, students, and AI enthusiasts ready to harness prompt engineering to unlock tools like ChatGPT. You’ll learn practical techniques, structured methods, and best practices for crafting strong prompts. Explore zero-shot and few-shot prompting to boost reliability and output quality. Discover advanced methods such as the Interview Pattern, Chain-of-Thought, and Tree-of-Thought to produce accurate, context-aware responses. Hands-on labs and projects provide experience with multimodal prompting, the playoff method, and image generation. You’ll practice blending text and visuals and evaluating AI outputs for precision and usefulness. Podcasts, dialogues, and discussions link theory to real-world scenarios, while expert insights highlight strategies for effective prompt use. A final project and graded assessments ensure you can apply these techniques with confidence, leaving you with practical, job-ready skills. Hear from practitioners about the techniques and artistry behind writing impactful prompts. Enroll today to master prompt engineering and unlock GenAI’s potential.
-
This course is designed for everyone—professionals, executives, students, and enthusiasts—interested in learning about generative AI and leveraging its capabilities in their work and lives. It is your first step toward understanding the power of generative AI, driven by models such as large language models (LLMs). In this course, you will learn the fundamentals and evolution of generative AI, with additional readings and expert insights offering a deeper view of its history and advancements. You will explore its capabilities across text, image, audio, video, virtual worlds, code, and data, with key takeaways and enhanced summaries at the end of each section to reinforce learning. You will understand the applications of generative AI in industries such as IT, finance, healthcare, education, entertainment, and human resources. You will also discover the features of popular tools and models, including GPT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Synthesia. Hands-on labs provide opportunities to practice using IBM Generative AI Classroom and tools such as ChatGPT. You will also hear from industry practitioners sharing real-world insights. Interactive activities, podcasts, and scenario-based exercises help you apply concepts, while a final practical project consolidates your skills by generating and refining outputs across multiple formats.
-
Keen to leverage the power of generative AI to boost your success in sales? This course is specifically designed for sales professionals, account executives, and business development representatives who want to get hands-on using generative AI to draft personalized outreach, generate leads, manage pipelines, accelerate deal closures, and drive sales success. During this course, you’ll learn how to craft impactful LinkedIn messages, high-converting outreach emails, and compelling sales proposals using AI tools. You’ll explore platforms such as ChatGPT, Lavender.ai, Clay.ai, Apollo.io, Gong, Chorus, Salesforce Einstein, and more. Beyond automation basics, you'll discover how to tailor messages to specific buyer personas, segment leads effectively, and prioritize accounts using AI-powered lead scoring. You’ll streamline follow-ups, build dynamic sales presentations, and support deal closure with AI-generated contracts and summaries. You’ll also build an AI-powered chatbot to simulate a basic sales interaction. Finally, you’ll complete a final hands-on project that simulates a full AI-enabled sales cycle, from lead generation to deal closure; ideal for showcasing in job interviews or performance reviews! If you’re eager to build practical generative AI skills to close sales smarter, faster, and at scale, enroll today.
Taught by
Antonio Cangiano, IBM Skills Network Team, Rajesh Menon and Rav Ahuja