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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

Processes and skills for managing opportunities and pipelines can be lacking. Thought leadership campaigns can help here particularly when a Challenger or Insight selling framework is deployed. Disconnection – Often the marketing (lead generation) and sales processes (lead nurturing and conversion) are disconnected.

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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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Top 50 Customer Success Influencers 2022

SmartKarrot

This annual list has been compiled by the editorial team at SmartKarrot considering overall influence in the form of industry impact, community contributions, thought leadership, followership, and similar guiding criteria. He’s also the Senior Director of Customer Success Enablement and Thought Leadership at Oracle. Rick Adams.