I cannot tell you how many conversations I have had the last few years about there being a huge shortage of qualified CRM talent. That is quickly followed by the conversation about the utter lack of training for functional CRM skills.
I am trying to change that with the new course, CRM Crash Course. The goal of this course is simple, become functional in Dynamics CRM in a week so you can go back and do your job better. Whatever job you have that is in the Dynamics CRM world. Send me your new hires with expertise in other areas, they will become great CRMy kinds of people.
Developers: We won’t talk code, but that’s ok, you don’t need code here; you need to know what’s there out of the box. Otherwise you will waste time and money on building functionality in things that are OOB. We’ll throw you some extensibility bones along the way, I promise.
Business analysts: Sure you can speak with a client and gather their needs, but this course will get you the core knowledge you need to better define those requirements in CRM-speak and then go do the work in CRM. We’ll cover lots of the WHY things work and HOW they work using real world business requirements.
Project managers: Reality is you need to know the OOB product better than most. The client and your team will be looking to you to lead them along the project and you need to be able to confidently do that, even though you may never build a custom entity or design a form in an implementation. This knowledge will enable you to make better estimates, assignments and all other essential planning because you will have the know-how of how CRM works and how it can work.
Those are the big three, but really anyone in a role based on Dynamics CRM implementations is the target audience. Each class will have a mixture of skills (by design, we can learn lots from each other) and each student will learn each skill on the agenda, regardless of their job title back home.
Are you looking to pass a certification exam? Probably not the course for you. Sure we’ll get you some great core knowledge, but we will not be focusing on academics, we will be focusing on useable skills for real world jobs.
This is a brand new course, created by my team. The agenda includes real scenarios based on CRM in the wild. We’ve got hands on work, team projects. Yes, all in a week. Your brain will hurt, but you will learn a ton. This course covers a little bit of 100 level content but is primarily 200-300 level. Since we control the agenda we can also tweak it as the product evolves so the content is always applicable.
Agenda includes:
- Sales and marketing automation
- Service and service scheduling
- Processes, aka workflows and dialogs
- Customization and configuration
- Org structure and security
- Relationships and mapping
- Best practices for solutions
- Consuming your CRM data (reports, charts, dashboards, etc.)
- …and more
Class size is controlled between 5 and 15. Dates have yet to be decided, drop us a note if you’re interested or have specific dates in mind, we’ll try to set up a course time that meets your needs. Right now this is just this is just an in-person course, we might do virtual later on, we’ll let you know.
Cost per student is $1995 for the week, this is the cost for training only. Bring a laptop, we’ll give you materials here. Travel and meals is not included in this price, but chances are I’ll buy you a pizza or something along the way, I have to eat too. Happy to give travel advice if you need it. Who doesn’t want a business excuse to go to Colorado Springs? It’s an awesome place.
(drop me an email if you want to discuss delivery at your site by one of our trainers)
The website here is a simple (SIMPLE) one-pager with a contact form. I promise you’ll hear back from us.
Hello, I will not be able to attend in person, will there be an option/opportunity to take this vitual or get the material and do on my own.
Thanks, Ronald
Ro013jo@aol.com
Posted by: Ronald E. | June 24, 2012 at 09:31 AM