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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

Data – CRM (Client Relationship Management) and CDP (Client Data Platforms) are often lacking. Processes and skills for managing opportunities and pipelines can be lacking. Time and capacity – Many fee-earners are stretched and compelled to manage large amounts of client work under heavy time pressures.

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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

Red Star Kim

MBD executives, advisors, managers, client services executives and BDMs from law firms, economics and management consultancies joined a PM Forum workshop on “Coaching and Consulting Skills for Marketing and Business Development”. You might draw on coaching and mentoring skills to help facilitate and vice versa.

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

Red Star Kim

She urges you to shift from outcome orientation to a process orientation (which is the opposite of what is advocated in change management programmes). She outlines various creativity tools including: The spider brief to break down large creative projects into manageable chunks, the third space, walking and “look up”.

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Moneyball: Sales Performance by the Numbers

SBI Growth

66% of Sales Reps believe that increasing the time invested by sales managers would help to increase their sales. Don’t wait for your manager to come to you. You’re at a point in the year where you are discussing 2013. Your manager obviously wants you to succeed and hit these numbers. Your manager is one of those tools.

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Top 50 Customer Success Influencers 2022

SmartKarrot

His company Practical CSM Academy provides global customer success management consulting, training and certification services. His book “Practical Customer Success Management: A best practice framework for rapid generation of customer success” is a highly valuable resource for CS practitioners at all levels. Nils Vinje.