AI & CRM Insight
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AI & CRM Insight
This course is part of B2B Sales Negotiation: Leveraging AI Professional Certificate
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What you'll learn
Use CRM systems to manage leads, track opportunities, and monitor sales pipelines.
Apply AI tools to support sales communication, preparation, and analysis
Interpret CRM data to prioritize opportunities and improve sales decision-making.
Integrate AI-supported workflows into daily sales activities.
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April 2026
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There are 11 modules in this course
Learn how artificial intelligence and CRM systems can support smarter decision-making and more efficient sales workflows. In this course, you’ll explore how sales professionals use CRM platforms to manage leads, track opportunities, and monitor pipeline performance. You’ll also learn how AI tools can assist with communication, data analysis, and sales preparation.
The course introduces practical workflows that help sales teams organize customer information, track engagement, and identify opportunities more effectively. Through real-world examples, you’ll learn how CRM insights and AI-supported tools can improve productivity, support better client interactions, and help sales professionals prioritize the right opportunities. What makes this course unique is its focus on combining traditional CRM practices with emerging AI tools used in modern sales environments. Instead of focusing only on technology concepts, the course emphasizes how sales professionals apply these tools in daily workflows to improve communication, streamline processes, and make informed sales decisions
In this module, you will build a clear mental model of how leads progress through a CRM—from initial capture to sales qualification. Through short videos, focused readings, and guided reflection, you will examine why accurate lead stages matter for sales execution, forecasting, and AI-supported decision-making. By the end of the module, you will understand lead tracking as a structured system that drives visibility, timing, and credibility in B2B sales workflows.
What's included
1 video1 reading1 assignment
1 video•Total 3 minutes
- Welcome & Course Orientation•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 8 minutes
- What Is a Lead in a CRM?•8 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
- Hands-On Learning: Identify the Correct Lead Stage•15 minutes
In this module, you will move from conceptual understanding to hands-on execution. Through demonstrations, guided reflection, and applied practice, you will create and manage lead records in a sandbox CRM—entering leads, documenting sales context, and scheduling follow-ups that mirror real B2B sales workflows. The focus is on disciplined CRM habits that signal ownership, support negotiation readiness engagement readiness, and maintain clean data for forecasting and AI-driven insights.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
2 videos•Total 14 minutes
- From Theory to Action: Working Inside a CRM•8 minutes
- Entering a Lead, Adding Notes, and Scheduling Follow-Ups•5 minutes
1 reading•Total 7 minutes
- Creating and Managing Leads in a Sandbox CRM•7 minutes
2 assignments•Total 35 minutes
- Graded Assessment: Lead Tracking in Practice•20 minutes
- Hands-On Learning: Build and Track Two Leads•15 minutes
You will examine how conversational-AI plugins provide real-time cues and sentiment insights to support better interpretation of buyer signals during discovery calls.
What's included
3 videos2 readings2 assignments
3 videos•Total 18 minutes
- Welcome: Why Discovery Calls Need AI Support•4 minutes
- How Predictive Lead Scoring Interprets Conversational-AI Signals •6 minutes
- From Conversation Signals to Predictive Lead Scoring•7 minutes
2 readings•Total 11 minutes
- What is Improving Customer Sentiment with AI•6 minutes
- Walkthrough: Mapping Conversational-AI Signals to Lead Scoring Insights •5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 25 minutes
- Hands-on Activity: Mapping Conversational-AI Features to Predictive Lead Scoring•20 minutes
- Interpreting Conversational-AI Signals•5 minutes
You will apply an AI meeting assistant to analyze a call recording and extract meaningful indicators of deal progress to support informed decision-making.
What's included
1 video1 reading2 assignments
1 video•Total 8 minutes
- What AI Meeting Assistants Actually Extract from Calls•8 minutes
1 reading•Total 6 minutes
- What is Conversation Intelligence?•6 minutes
2 assignments•Total 40 minutes
- Graded Assessment: Evaluating Deal Progress Using AI Insights•20 minutes
- Hands-on Activity: Extract Deal-Progress Indicators from a Sample Call•20 minutes
You will design CRM workflows using AI-predicted churn signals to trigger timely, personalized follow-ups with clear entry and exit logic.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videos•Total 14 minutes
- Introduction to Automate CRM Nudges •4 minutes
- Designing the Right Trigger and Entry Logic•5 minutes
- Structuring a Three-Touch CRM Sequence•5 minutes
1 reading•Total 8 minutes
- Understanding AI Health Scores and Churn Signals•8 minutes
2 assignments•Total 25 minutes
- Hands-on Learning: Build a Health-Based CRM Workflow•15 minutes
- Practice Quiz: Designing Safe and Effective Health-Based CRM Workflows•10 minutes
You will analyze engagement data to identify drop-offs and refine CRM sequences to improve response rates and overall performance.
What's included
2 videos2 readings2 assignments
2 videos•Total 12 minutes
- Using Engagement Data to Improve Reply Rates•6 minutes
- Improving Email Performance with Small Changes•5 minutes
2 readings•Total 16 minutes
- Reading the 30-Day CRM Engagement Funnel•8 minutes
- Diagnosing a Stage-2 Reply Rate Decline•8 minutes
2 assignments•Total 35 minutes
- Graded Assessment: Reply Rate Diagnosis and Optimization Practice Quiz•20 minutes
- Hands-on Learning: Fix the 25 Percent Drop at Email Two•15 minutes
This module will help you use a conversational AI assistant during live calls to spot objection cues, especially pricing, right as they happen and respond confidently in the moment. You’ll practice turning AI prompts into action by reframing to ROI/value and securing a clear next step before the call ends.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
2 videos•Total 6 minutes
- Introduction and Welcome•2 minutes
- Handle Pricing Objections with AI Prompts•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 8 minutes
- Transform Your Sales with Conversational AI•8 minutes
2 assignments•Total 25 minutes
- Hands-On Learning: AI Pricing Prompt Role Play•15 minutes
- Practice Quiz: Prompt - to - Progress Picks•10 minutes
This module will let you turn your call data into proof—exporting outcomes, building a simple chart, and translating the numbers into a retro-ready story. You’ll quantify next-step lift, check the call-length tradeoff, and leave with a clear recommendation your team can act on.
What's included
1 video1 reading2 assignments
1 video•Total 5 minutes
- Build a simple chart and interpret lift•5 minutes
1 reading•Total 5 minutes
- Define Your Outcome Metrics and Comparison Rules•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 35 minutes
- Graded Assessment: Objection to Outcome•20 minutes
- Hands-On Learning: Retro-Ready: Chart + 5 Bullets•15 minutes
You will design a dashboard that visualizes win-rate by discount band, negotiation length, and AI sentiment to support sales decision-making.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videos•Total 12 minutes
- Welcome to Dashboard Win Drivers•2 minutes
- Actionable Sales Dashboards•6 minutes
- Building the Dashboard•5 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Key Sales Metrics Explained•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 21 minutes
- Hands-on Learning: Design a Dashboard Layout•15 minutes
- Practice Assignment: Dashboard Design Check•6 minutes
You will analyze dashboard insights to identify key predictors of win-rate and recommend concrete sales process improvements.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
2 videos•Total 9 minutes
- Finding Win Predictors•6 minutes
- From Insight to Recommendation•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 6 minutes
- Win Predictors & Reading Win Signals Together•6 minutes
2 assignments•Total 35 minutes
- Graded Quiz: Win Drivers Final Assessment•20 minutes
- Hands-On Learning: Recommend Sales Changes•15 minutes
In this project, you will design an AI-powered sales workflow for a B2B software sales team. Your work will show how CRM processes, AI-supported selling activities, and analytics function as one connected system. You will create a workflow that improves data quality, supports timely follow-up, guides AI use during calls, and measures business impact through a clear performance framework. As part of this, you will define how AI insights are used during sales interactions and evaluate their impact by comparing call outcomes across AI-assisted and non-AI-assisted scenarios. You will also design analytics that help identify patterns in performance, including isolating key factors that influence win rates using dashboard data. You will create automated follow-up sequences and define how their effectiveness can be tested using A/B-style comparisons to determine which approaches improve engagement and deal progression. In addition, you will build a performance measurement framework that connects activity, AI usage, and outcomes, enabling continuous optimization of the sales workflow. This project reflects a real sales operations challenge where teams must not only implement systems but also measure what drives results. It focuses on integrating CRM, AI tools, and analytics into a continuous improvement loop where insights are tested, validated, and used to refine sales execution.
What's included
2 readings1 assignment
2 readings•Total 7 minutes
- Why AI-Powered Sales Workflows Matter•3 minutes
- AI-Powered Sales Workflow: Requirements and Evaluation•4 minutes
1 assignment•Total 60 minutes
- Design an AI-Powered Sales Workflow •60 minutes
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You will learn how CRM systems and AI tools support modern sales workflows, including managing leads, analyzing sales data, and improving communication with clients.
No technical background is required. The course introduces CRM and AI tools in a practical way that focuses on how sales professionals use them in everyday work.
CRM systems help sales teams organize customer information, track opportunities, and monitor the sales pipeline, allowing better coordination and more informed decisions.
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