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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

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. Sales skills There are numerous inventories of what selling skills and qualities are needed.

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Coaching and Consulting skills – Limiting beliefs, approaches to helping and marketing consultancy

Red Star Kim

What is the marketing consultant’s approach from the first meeting? How much do you value strategy in the equation? Are you committed to seeing a strategy fully through before engaging in new tactics? Are you open to a strategic brand audit/assessment? Who else has the marketing consultant worked with? Are they certified as marketing experts?

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Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective

Red Star Kim

The shift to remote working during lockdown drove the need to develop several new soft skills. From my perspective, first and foremost of the new soft skills – with the reduction in non-verbal cues and the reduced influence of big personality and high status in the digital world – was the ability to create a powerful online presence.

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

Red Star Kim

I also wrote a blog post about one of Helen’s digital products here: System review: CogniClick for instant, personalised research (kimtasso.com) ) Further details of the author: Helen Kensett | LinkedIn Overview This simply but powerfully illustrated little black book comprises 260 pages. My books are listed here Publications by Kim Tasso.

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Proactive marketing and business development executives – CRM, internal engagement and career insights

Red Star Kim

There were comments that it was unusual for people to be in the office so face time and in person meetings – where it is easier to develop rapport, trust and solid working relationships – were rare. Finding ways to meet with people in real time (such as at social events) can help. Make myself more visible in meeting with fee earners.

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Exploring the Influence of AI on Leadership Roles – an experiment by a CEO

MDI Training

Exploring the Influence of AI on Leadership Roles: Learn more about the ongoing ChatGPT experiment by MDI CEO Gunther Fürstberger In a ChatGPT experiment, our CEO Gunther Fürstberger tried to test the boundaries between artificial intelligence and humans. Read this blog post to see the results. “What can humans do better?

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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

Red Star Kim

There are many aspects of consulting competencies and attributes: emotional intelligence, analytical, problem-solving, delivery of results, leadership, project management, commercial orientation, entrepreneurial spirit, team work as well as functional expertise and market/sector knowledge. What is a consultant? Consultancy.uk