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Budtender Training

GateWay Community College

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Course Details

The Budtender training course is a hybrid training of cannabis education and sales. This training will set you up to be prepared to step into a budtender role with product knowledge and effective communication skills that are needed to succeed. Increase your cannabis knowledge, sales, customer loyalty, and engagement with this full training.

You will be guided through your course material by your instructor, MJ Stapley. She started her journey in the cannabis industry in 2014. She left her corporate management career and joined the cannabis industry to work for CV Sciences, a CBD manufacturer. After discovering a need for cannabis employee training, MJ combined her passion for sales training and cannabis education to develop the MJ Hybrid Training System. With her 14 years of corporate sales experience and 6 years of cannabis industry expertise, MJ created training for cannabis employees that is both scientifically accurate and helps employees better sell to customers. Her mission is to legitimize the cannabis industry through proper employee education and training.

After This Course, You Will Be Able To
The budtender training course is a hybrid training on both cannabis sales and education to give you the skills and knowledge you need to excel in working at a cannabis dispensary. This course provides effective strategies to ascertain the unique goals of each customer, convey the quality of product, and create a welcoming, positive environment. From listening and communication skills to essential cannabis knowledge and education, this course will help you be a successful budtender in a rapidly growing industry.

Skills you'll acquire

Active ListeningCoordinationMonitoringSocial PerceptivenessSpeaking
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Knowledge Outcomes and Experience

  • General & Operations Managers
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