Become great at marketing management

How to build and run a high-performance marketing team

Online course:
Marketing management

By Kristen Craft,

GM @ Animalz

Course length: 1h 50min

English subtitles Certificate included

Course overview

In marketing, building a team is critical to advancing your goals, as well as your career as a manager. But most marketers don’t get specific guidance on how to hire, motivate others, or resolve conflicts.

Nor are most of us marketers taught how to gather and share the proper data that leads to a promotion.

This course will teach you how to build a team, set actionable goals, and manage your career path so you can position yourself for a C-level role.

Introduction video (1 min)

Here’s what Kristen will teach you …

This course covers actionable strategies for hiring and managing a team, as well as managing one’s personal brand.

This includes specifics on how to hire and onboard people. It also includes strategies for setting objectives and key results people can get excited about. Lastly, it includes guidance on how to find a mentor, land public speaking gigs, and join a board of directors.

In just 12 short sessions, you’ll be able to …

Set objectives and key results, so your teams can accomplish their goals
Build airtight project plans, so everything stays on track and within budget
Use a structured approach to resolve conflicts
Hire and onboard people efficiently, so new team members can get up to speed quickly and start contributing
Land speaking gigs, so you can grow your personal brand and advance your career

Skills you will master

Marketing campaignsMarketing strategyMarketing team managementOnboardingPersonal brandTeam buildingTeam motivation

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Benefits of taking this course

Having these leadership strategies on hand means you’ll be able to build and manage a team effectively. You’ll gain a better sense of how to manage a marketing team day-to-day, as well as how to manage your career longterm.

You’ll walk away with frameworks for budgeting, running good one-on-ones, and applying to speak at conferences. This course supports your personal and professional growth from marketing associate to CMO.

This course is right for you if …

enjoy hiring and leading others and need strategies to get there
dream of becoming a CMO or building a large team and want proactive steps for getting there
enjoy running an organized, “tight ship” and would benefit from frameworks to support you

This course is NOT for you if …

you’re super junior in your marketing career and have never managed anyone (either directly or indirectly)
you’re super advanced in your career and have already led dozens of people
you prefer being an individual contributor and doing heads-down work most of the time

Skills you should have before taking this course

Because this is a course for marketers who aspire to lead a team, students should be interested in working with others, rather than being an individual contributor for the foreseeable future. If you have the skills and attributes described below, this course is a good fit for you:

You’re a people person (or aspire to be one)
You’ve spent at least 1-2 years on a marketing team, seeing how goals are set and campaigns are run
You’ve managed someone else’s work at least once, either officially, or in the capacity of a project lead, helping others stay on track

About the expert

Kristen Craft

GM @ Animalz

Kristen Craft is GM at Animalz a company delivering high-quality content marketing to enterprise companies, startups, and VC firms.

Over the past 15 years, she’s grown a number of amazing teams. One of Kristen’s favorite parts of the job is mentoring and helping to develop those around her.

Kristen has taught and spoken at over a hundred conferences and events from INBOUND to MozCon. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, where she specialized in organizational behavior and team management.

Your full course curriculum

How to build and manage a marketing team

1 How to know if management is right for you

This class gives a brief overview to what it means to build a team and manage your career in a proactive way. It’ll help you understand why management is a critical piece of the puzzle and identify if this is a path you truly want to take with your car …

2 Defining your marketing strategy

This class will help you define your larger marketing strategy. We’ll cover how to focus on high-impact areas, communicate with others in the company, and get the people and budget you need. Topics Covered: Focus areasCommunicating to other groupsShort …

3 Team building

This class covers every step of the hiring process, from how to get buy-in to make the hire, to running a good search process, to getting the person to actually join. Topics Covered: Making the case to hire new peopleInterviewing best practicesMaking a …

4 Onboarding and setting expectations

This class will help you manage the first month with your new hire. By creating a systematic process for new team members, you’ll ensure they focus on the right things and get up to speed as quickly as possible. Topics Covered: Streamlining the onboard …

5 Setting and reaching objectives

This class will cover the OKR system for setting objectives and measuring key results. It gives guidance on how to implement an OKR system to drive consistent, effective work. Topics Covered: The OKR system Setting OKRs Checking in on OKRs Staying on t …

6 One-on-ones

Though one-on-one meetings with your direct reports might seem intuitive, many managers fail to leverage some simple best practices. By running good one-on-ones, you’ll help those on your team do their best work and navigate issues more easily. Topics …

7 Team motivation

This class explores how to build and maintain motivation. We’ll dive into what motivates an individual, as well as how to keep the team motivated, as a group. Topics Covered: What kind of manager are you?What you need to know about each of your direct …

8 Managing conflict

All teams run into conflict sometimes. And that’s ok. What’s important is that you help your team navigate conflict well, thereby fostering a sense of psychological safety and resolution. Topics Covered: Psychological safetyRAPID decision makingDRIsRAC …

9 Running and tracking marketing campaigns

This class gets into the nitty gritty of project management. We’ll cover how your can make hypotheses, then use a systematic approach to determine what’s working. From there, you can double down on what works and eliminate what doesn’t. Topics Covered: …

10 Growing the people on your team

The best managers are always looking to grow and mentor those on their team. This class will help you navigate that process, from finding resources to running annual reviews. Topics Covered: Letting team members take on new work or shift roles Helping …

11 Managing your long-term career

This class helps you identify where you’d like to be in the future and how to get there. We’ll cover how to find sponsors within your company and mentors outside of it. Topics Covered: Identifying where you’d like to be 18 months from now and 5 years f …

12 Building your personal brand

You can accelerate your path towards a C-level role by investing in your own visibility. This means writing, public speaking, and supporting others. If you develop a reputation for being hard-working, willing to help those around you, and eager to grow …

This online course comes with a certificate to prove completion

Completing this training earns you a CXL certificate of completion you can add to your Linkedin profile.

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Who is this course for?

This course is right for you if you:

Enjoy hiring and leading others and need strategies to get there
Dream of becoming a CMO or building a large team and want proactive steps for getting there
Enjoy running an organized, “tight ship” and would benefit from frameworks to support you

Some careers and roles that will especially benefit from this course are product marketer, brand marketer, content marketer, CEO, SEO specialist, and digital marketing manager.

What will you learn?

After taking this course, you will:

Set objectives and key results, so your teams can accomplish their goals
Build airtight project plans, so everything stays on track and within budget
Use a structured approach to resolve conflicts
Hire and onboard people efficiently, so new team members can get up to speed quickly and start contributing
Land speaking gigs, so you can grow your personal brand and advance your career

What does the course include?

Our Marketing Management training includes 13 lessons, 25 downloadable resources, 1h 50min of video material, several assignments, and a final exam.

Are subtitles available for the lessons?

Lessons have English subtitles and transcriptions available.

Will I receive a certificate of completion?

After taking this course, you will receive the Marketing Management Certification from CXL, with credentials that you can add to your LinkedIn profile.

What is the refund policy?

All plans come with a 7-day refund period .

How long will it take for me to finish it?

This is entirely up to you – it’s how many study hours per week you can put in. This course is 1h 50min long.