Remove 2010 Remove Decision-making Remove Emotional Intelligence Remove Value Proposition
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Why are questions so important? (Questioning skills)

Red Star Kim

We ask questions to avoid making wrong assumptions or adopting the wrong focus. will make people pause to consider how their feelings compare with those they had the previous day. How can I help to make this better for us?” “How You see this in multiple choice questions and they can be used as a closing technique. Why act now?

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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. There is rarely a deep understanding of how disparate and disconnected decision-making units are across such large organisations.

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

Red Star Kim

And that technology is making some jobs obsolete. Understand how and why they make decisions. Identify emotional hot buttons. Urgency (are you making it crucial?) It helps with developing the value proposition by considering three buckets: How your service is the same as competitors?