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Defeating the "No-Decision" Trap: The Power of Divergent Thinking

Holden Advisors

Imagine if you could banish “no-decision” from your sales funnel. They build a shared vision around the ability to address a compelling business need or market opportunity and build the scaffolding of commitment to make this vision a reality. In essence, divergent thinking is the antidote to “no decision.”. They sell potential.

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

Red Star Kim

Building empathy with fee-earners helps us to understand what they expect and any assumptions they may be making about the likely results. Be influential and persuasive Influence is having a vision of the optimum outcome and then, without using force or coercion, motivating people to work together toward making the vision a reality.

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Key Account Management (KAM) – Research companies, use KAM technology and maintain momentum

Red Star Kim

no-data-entry CRM; relationship intelligence (ERM); revenue operations system; automatic capture of emails, meetings and referrals). Some firms provide templates of different types of KAM meeting types. (profit, growth and core legal services) How can Nexl help law firms execute their Strategic Account initiatives? (no-data-entry

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Persuasive writing checklist

Red Star Kim

Understand their decision-making process. Meet their needs. Make an emotional connection – Connect with your reader. Use inclusive language – Remove words and phrases that put people off Reduce – Make it more concise. Make it scannable – Are there sufficient sub-titles and sub-headings? Be evocative.

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How to Boost Sales Productivity with Account Planning

Upland

Sales productivity becomes even more difficult for complex B2B accounts with large buying groups and multiple divisions involved in the decision-making process. This targeted approach makes successful sales and better relationships more likely. This requires that sales teams work with their greater revenue teams.

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How to engage fee-earners in the M&BD planning process?

Red Star Kim

Have empathy – Most fee-earners are really stretched to meet their targets, serve their clients and manage their teams. Find ways to make their lives easier and better. They can make it a firm priority to produce M&BD plans. Then summarise their comments, requests and decisions in a (concise) structure that they value.

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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.