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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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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

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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?) She acknowledges that we are all facing an overwhelming volume of information. Our buyers’ reality is a constantly changing flux.