Nursery Sales Assistant Online Course

• Study, Learn and Work in a Plant Nursery
• Improve your ability to sell plants and associated products

This course was developed in response to a request from a retail nurseryman who was finding it difficult to find staff with appropriate skills. As he put it, job applicants were either over qualified or lacked the basic skills needed: to be able to identify plants, advise customers on their use and to understand some basic sales techniques and procedures.

Why study this Nursery Sales Assistant course?

Careerline’s online Nursery Sales Assistant is designed to help current and aspiring nursery retail employees to improve their nursery and plant retail skills. Nursery retail jobseekers, current nursery sales assistants, and nursery managers alike will find the skills taught in this course valuable. The modules in this course provide an overview of plant care, plant identification, and nursery retail sales techniques, ensuring you or your employees build workplace-relevant skills.

Whether you are an employer looking for a training package for your staff or a jobseeker hoping to upskill before applying for nursery sales positions, this course will help you achieve your goals. As well as plant identification and plant care, this beginner-level course will allow you or your employees to develop customer service and communication skills that are specific to nursery and plant retail.

What will you learn?

Over five lessons, this online Nursery Sales Assistant course will provide you or your employees with the sales skills and plant knowledge needed to succeed in nursery retail.

Students learn how to identify plants, introducing them to plant classification and providing resources for pronouncing plant names. You or your employees will develop basic nursery sales skills, including dealing with different types of customers and opening and closing sales.

In addition, students will develop a deeper understanding of basic plant care, such as planting techniques, plant nutrition, soil, and pest management. You or your employees will learn how to select appropriate plants for different purposes and locations. The last lesson in this course teaches sales assistants how to advise nursery customers effectively, including the importance of excellent communication skills, knowing the product, and plant placement.

Who is this online Nursery Sales Assistant course for?

Careerline’s online Nursery Sales Assistant course is ideal for nursery retail jobseekers and current nursery sales assistants. If you are a jobseeker, studying this course will give you an advantage over other applicants for nursery sales and general retail positions. Current employees will be better equipped to expertly assist their customers with plant selection, as well as communicate professionally and convert sales. The skills taught in this course improve career prospects and set nursery businesses up for success.

This course is also ideal for anyone with an interest in pursuing further study in retail, horticulture, agribusiness, marketing, or management.

Course Aims:

• Identify a sales opening.
• Identify and demonstrate how to ‘close’ a sale.
• Demonstrate a range of sales skills in a horticultural workplace
• Identify a range of different plants, based on their flower and leaf structures.
• Describe the importance of effective communication and sales techniques in the retail nursery industry.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to care for plants, both in the garden and in the nursery.
• Demonstrate knowledge of appropriate plant selection for a range of different sites.
• Identify a range of plant health problems and describe appropriate chemical and non-chemical control methods to control those problems.
• Demonstrate knowledge and use of nursery products.
• Describe the importance of plant placement in the retail nursery.