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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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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.

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“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste”

Mercuri International

Specifically, it’s about what makes them tick – and why training could be about more than just skills…. So, how to make people happy? It’s rare that a business decision is so clearly win-win. Edmans, A (2011), “Does the stock market fully value intangibles? It’s about people. Your people. Joining the dots.

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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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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. Coaches and consultants use facilitation skills.

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Book review – Why has nobody told me this before? Dr Julie Smith (Mental Health Guidance)

Red Star Kim

A tool for psychoeducation In the business world, much of my time as a consultant is in identifying the possible and required changes and helping organisations to make the transition. My decision to embark on the long training to become a psychotherapist was driven by the desire to provide a deeper level of support.

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Measuring Success in the Face of Wicked Problems: Climate Action Plan Performance Measures

Envisio

Climate change exemplifies the wicked problem archetype, as it encompasses a myriad of interconnected issues, including rising temperatures, extreme weather events, a lack of collaboration between major decision-making entities, biodiversity loss, and socioeconomic disparities. Not sure how your community compares?