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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

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. And that technology is making some jobs obsolete.

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

When we see the investment that some companies are making in pivoting their engagement model to be more strategic, customer-centric and value enabling, we are always surprised to see the enabling functions still focus on supporting the more transactional model which is based on the number of interactions as the metric. Conclusion.

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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

Red Star Kim

It’s worth touching on some related skills : Facilitating Essentially, facilitation is about making communication, interaction, collaboration or learning easier. Facilitation skills provide opportunities and resources to a group of people that enable them to make progress and succeed.

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Book review: The Strategy Book by Max McKeown

Red Star Kim

Let it grow like a weed in the garden | Henry Mintzberg ) The way to achieve great employee engagement is addressed in this 2021 book Book review: Influential Internal Communication by Jenni Field (kimtasso.com) ) Think before you plan “Strategy is about outthinking your competition. What is the informal decision-making process?

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Sales Summit 2011 – Where Straight Talking, Bare-Knuckle Negotiating, Magic And Mystery Stole The Show

MTD Sales Training

Our 2011 Sales Summit was held on Thursday 17 th November in Heathrow, and with over 100 UK and international sales professionals in attendance it certainly was a packed day. . Sean encouraged his guests to make the most of their sales interactions and gave great direction on how to pre-sell their products.

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Why Your Organisation Needs A Customer Crisis Plan

Jermaine Edwards

Many organisations saw this in 2008, 2011 and now 2020. This doesn’t mean it will be easy nor will you not have to make tough decisions. It just means the effort and tough decisions will be worthwhile. Selecting the right team and identifying those resources makes a big difference. Two – VUCA Decision Making.