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Private client management and marketing: Business plans, recruitment, assessments and automation (Nov 2023)

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It was good to meet the private client lawyers – some recently promoted to head of department – for a workshop on “ Managing and growing your private client practice” earlier this month. An important assessment that I use a lot is for Emotional Intelligence (EQ). kimtasso.com). kimtasso.com).

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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

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Nervousness – Shyness, modesty, lack of confidence and fear of failure can make fee-earners reluctant to organise meetings to take the next steps in building a potential client relationship. This has changed the sales process fundamentally in many environments.

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Book review: Sales Mind – 48 tools to help you sell by Helen Kensett

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They are organised into sections: The seller mind shift To see To think: Synthesising your sell To think: Communicating your sell To improve Closing the sale Selling skills The author considers the difference between using our innate natural selling skills compared to learned techniques. How it is better than competitors?

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Why are questions so important? (Questioning skills)

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When we meet someone, we show interest in them and learn about them (to build empathy and see the world through their eyes An introduction to emotional intelligence (EQ) and empathy (Video) (kimtasso.com) ) by asking questions. Questions are important when we meet someone new.

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What is Socratic questioning? (Questioning skills)

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It is defined as using questions to “clarify meaning, elicit emotion and consequences, as well as to gradually create insight or explore alternative action” (James, Morse, & Howarth, 2010). – Kim Tasso March 2010 How do you close a sale? It is helpful to surface knowledge that was previously outside of our awareness.