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Top six leadership qualities?

Red Star Kim

Daryl Fielding | Sales & Marketing Speaker | Booking Agent (champions-speakers.co.uk). Personally, I think emotional intelligence (EQ) – particularly self-awareness – and the art of communication to promote collaboration should be in the list. So what do you consider to be the top six leadership qualities?

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Achieve more engagement and buy-in: Relationships, Plan, Expectations, Benefits, Persuasion and Training

Red Star Kim

An introduction to emotional intelligence (EQ) and empathy (Video) (kimtasso.com). That’s the nature of the often long and protracted sales cycles in professional services. And we can ask questions Why are questions so important? Questioning skills) (kimtasso.com). This way we build mutual understanding and empathy.

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

Red Star Kim

Sometimes marketing and sales system are not integrated. And there was the added complication of long sales cycles. However, some lack systems and data for monitoring activities once leads are passed to fee-earners for follow up and nurturing. And it is hard to argue with evidence of client sentiment or competitor action.

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

Red Star Kim

A chance encounter with Helen Kensett at a recent conference reminded me about her 2016 sales book. I’ve reviewed several books on selling (see the list below) and this one is different as, rather than focusing on the stages in the sales process, it provides pragmatic tips to help. It’s beautifully illustrated.

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Conversation skills book review 1 – How to talk to anyone about anything – James W. Williams

Red Star Kim

Whether it’s for confident or commercial conversations as part of the networking skills toolkit or part of a relationship building or sales conversations. A 2012 study by Larry D Rosen researched students and found that they could only study for three minutes at a time – laptops and phones providing the most distraction.

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Book review: Neuroscience for learning and development by Stella Collins

Red Star Kim

There’s information about Howard Gardener’ multiple intelligences and emotional intelligence. And mentions that the CIPD bought out three research reports between 2012 and 2014 describing the impact that neuroscience will have on learning. So I’m confident you could skip some of this material if necessary.