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

Red Star Kim

This is challenging as everyone is time poor and most communications are digital. An introduction to emotional intelligence (EQ) and empathy (Video) (kimtasso.com). Building empathy with fee-earners helps us to understand what they expect and any assumptions they may be making about the likely results.

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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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22 tips on being a persuasive writer in professional services

Red Star Kim

Make your content stand out. An introduction to emotional intelligence (EQ) and empathy (Video) (kimtasso.com). As well as those designed for the digital age such as RACE (Reach, Act, Convert, Engage). Search Engine Optimisation Writing for digital channels involves SEO to drive traffic to your web site.

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Learning & Development Update: Lean Learning and learning trends

Red Star Kim

A 2016 Gallup poll of Millennials found that almost 90% of them valued “career growth and development opportunities,” but less than 40% felt strongly that they had “ learned something new on the job in the past 30 days.”

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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. 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?) Simplicity (is your pitch simple?)

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Preparing M&BD professionals for the future – learning, skills and knowledge transfer

Red Star Kim

And that some content – e.g. digital skills – is best learned through video whereas “softer” skills through personal interactions. A New Approach to Writing Job Descriptions (hbr.org)) Then it was over to the delegates – split into two teams to consider what current and future competencies they felt were important. What are soft skills?

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Top 50 Customer Success Influencers 2021

SmartKarrot

Here’s our Top 50 Customer Success Influencers list celebrating those frontiersmen and women pushing the boundaries and making Customer Success the force that it is today. Making it to the Top 25 Customer Success Influencers in 2020, Kristi has turned the tables for hyper-growth B2B SaaS companies. Andrew Marks. Kristi Faltorusso.