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There are 4 modules in this course
The fourth course in the Salesforce Sales Operations Professional Certificate — Reports, Dashboards, and Customer Success in Salesforce — is for anyone who is curious about entry level sales roles that require foundational skills in Salesforce, the sales operations specialist role specifically, how to use tools in Salesforce to improve customer service at a business, how to leverage data in Salesforce to improve the overall performance of a sales team, and the path to becoming a Salesforce administrator.
This fourth course goes into more depth on how a sales operations specialist would use Salesforce Service Cloud to support a variety of different customer service needs. You will learn the basics of effective customer support, and you will leverage a variety of new tools available in the Salesforce Service Cloud to effectively manage customer relationships.
This course also goes into more depth on how a sales ops specialist would use Salesforce Reports and Dashboards to support a variety of needs from a sales team manager to track, improve, and forecast the overall performance of a sales team. You will learn how to use filters to produce custom reports in Salesforce, and then discover how to visualize that data effectively through the use of charts and dashboards.
For this course, it is recommended (but not required) that you have some background knowledge of sales and CRM, as well as an understanding of the basics of Salesforce platform navigation. If you're a total beginner with these concepts, you can still be successful in this course — however, it might require some additional work on your part.
By enrolling in this course, you are taking the next step to kickstarting your career in Salesforce. Congratulations on continuing this exciting journey!
Welcome to the first week of Reports, Dashboards, and Customer Success in Salesforce, the fourth and final course in the Salesforce Sales Operations Professional Certificate! This week, you'll learn about the final stage of the sales process: Customer Success. You’ll also learn more about the customer success manager (or CSM) role, how you can support that role as a sales ops specialist, and you'll dive into the Service Cloud to fully understand what tools are available to you to make sure that a CSM is doing their job as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Everyday Tasks of a Customer Success Manager•2 minutes
14 readings•Total 200 minutes
What is Pathstream?•10 minutes
Reports, Dashboards, and Customer Success in Salesforce Syllabus•15 minutes
How to Be Successful in this Course•15 minutes
How to Use Discussion Forums•10 minutes
Get to Know Your Classmates•10 minutes
A Note on Using Salesforce in this Course•10 minutes
Create a Trailhead Account and Playground•30 minutes
A Note About Software Updates•10 minutes
Why the Service Side of Sales Matters•15 minutes
Customer Success Managers and the Sales Process•10 minutes
The Responsibilities of a Customer Success Manager•10 minutes
Service Cloud Overview•15 minutes
Begin Your Salesforce Service Cloud Journey•30 minutes
Week 1 Recap•10 minutes
3 assignments•Total 110 minutes
CSM Responsibilties •30 minutes
Salesforce Service Cloud•30 minutes
Customer Success Managers•50 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 50 minutes
Meet and Greet•25 minutes
A Day in the Life of a Customer Success Manager•25 minutes
Service Cases in Salesforce
Module 2•7 hours to complete
Module details
Welcome to the second week of Reports, Dashboards, and Customer Success in Salesforce! This week, you are going to go even deeper into the Service Cloud and work hands on with customer success tools in Salesforce through the Guided Project experience. In these Guided Projects, you will learn how you can leverage Salesforce to empower CSMs to do their jobs as effectively and efficiently as possible by working with cases and exploring other features like Knowledge and the Service Console. At the end of this week, you will also tackle your first independent project in this course, which will give you an opportunity to explore a business use case in Salesforce, hands on. By completing this project, you will be able to create a valuable portfolio piece and work sample that you can use during your future job search.
Knowledge Basics for Lightning Experience•30 minutes
Guided Project: Working with Knowledge•60 minutes
Working with the Service Console•15 minutes
Week 2 Recap•10 minutes
Project Summary and Requirements•15 minutes
Set Up Your Developer Edition Org and Connect to Trailhead•10 minutes
What If I Didn't Complete the Independent Project in the Previous Course?•15 minutes
Project Instructions•45 minutes
3 assignments•Total 110 minutes
Salesforce Cases•30 minutes
Leveraging Knowledge and the Service Console•30 minutes
Salesforce Cases, Knowledge and the Service Console•50 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 25 minutes
Sales Process Review•25 minutes
Supporting Sales Managers with Reports
Module 3•7 hours to complete
Module details
Welcome to the third week of Reports, Dashboards, and Customer Success in Salesforce! This week, you are going to dive into a new role — the sales manager and learn how to best support the different needs of that role by leveraging Salesforce data in the form of reports. Knowing how to parse through Salesforce data, understand what’s most important, and use that targeted data to solve specific business problems is an incredibly valuable skill to have. There are many reasons why it’s valuable to leverage Salesforce data to solve real world problems, some of which include the ability to track, improve, and forecast the performance of a sales team in order to make sure that the team is hitting its goals — which you’ll learn more about this week!
Sales Team Members and the Sales Process: A Review•3 minutes
12 readings•Total 225 minutes
Why Utilizing Reports in Salesforce Matters•15 minutes
The Life of a Sales Manager•30 minutes
Salesforce for Sales Managers•15 minutes
The Value of Reports•15 minutes
Why Understanding Reports Matters•5 minutes
Report Types•15 minutes
Applying Filters•15 minutes
Selecting a Report Format•15 minutes
Why Practicing Strategically Matters•10 minutes
Building Reports in Lightning Experience•60 minutes
Customizing Reports•15 minutes
Week 3 Recap•15 minutes
5 assignments•Total 180 minutes
Life of a Sales Manager•30 minutes
Salesforce for Sales Managers•30 minutes
Understanding Reports•30 minutes
Building Reports•30 minutes
Supporting Sales Managers with Reports•60 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 30 minutes
Reflecting on a Sales Manager's Journey•30 minutes
Charts and Dashboards
Module 4•8 hours to complete
Module details
Welcome to Week 4, the final week of Reports, Dashboards, and Customer Success in Salesforce! This week, you'll learn how to create visualizations of the data in your Salesforce reports using report charts and dashboards. Creating these visualizations for sales managers, and other sales team members, can be an incredibly effective way to highlight key metrics so that sales teams can make informed, data-driven decisions on the job — helping them achieve their collective goals and hit their target sales revenue. At the end of this week, you will also tackle your final independent project in this course, which will give you an opportunity to explore a business use case in Salesforce, hands on. By completing this project, you will be able to create a valuable portfolio piece and work sample that you can use during your future job search.
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