Salesforce Essentials for Sales Reps
A practical, field-focused guide to managing leads, opportunities, accounts, activities, and forecasts in Salesforce
Salesforce Essentials for Sales Reps is a practical course designed to help sales professionals use Salesforce with confidence in daily selling work. You will learn how to manage leads, opportunities, accounts, activities, and forecasts while building cleaner habits that support better Sales performance.
Build A Strong Salesforce Sales Workflow
- Learn Salesforce foundations so you can navigate records, apps, tabs, search, and home pages efficiently.
- Manage leads from capture through qualification and conversion without losing important customer context.
- Keep opportunities, activities, accounts, and contacts organized for stronger pipeline visibility.
- Use reports, dashboards, forecasts, and collaboration tools to prepare for reviews and improve Sales execution.
Salesforce Essentials for Sales Reps is A practical, field-focused guide to managing leads, opportunities, accounts, activities, and forecasts in Salesforce.
This course walks sales reps through the core Salesforce skills needed to work accurately and consistently in a modern Sales environment. You will begin with the foundations: getting oriented in Salesforce, understanding Sales records, and navigating the tools you use every day.
From there, you will learn how to manage leads from capture to qualification, convert leads properly, maintain account and contact records, and use activity history to build a clear relationship timeline. The course also covers opportunity creation, stage updates, close dates, amounts, probability, and pipeline hygiene so your pipeline reflects real Sales activity.
You will also develop a practical daily Salesforce routine for logging calls, emails, meetings, tasks, follow-ups, and next steps. By the end of the course, you will be able to use Salesforce more confidently, prepare for manager reviews, read dashboards and reports, contribute to accurate forecasts, and turn Salesforce into a reliable part of your everyday Sales workflow.
Full lesson breakdown
Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.
Salesforce Foundations
3 lessons
Lead Management
2 lessons
Customer Records
2 lessons
Opportunity Management
3 lessons
Daily Sales Workflow
3 lessons
Team Collaboration
1 lesson
Pipeline Visibility
3 lessons
Salesforce in Practice
1 lesson
Professor Christina Ross
Professor Christina Ross guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.