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Managing Partners’ Forum – Highlights from the Advisory Board Meeting September 2023

Red Star Kim

Qualities sought in NEDs included: financial literacy, tech literacy, ESG knowledge, change management experience, people literacy, interpersonal skills, team collaboration, consensus-building, intellectual capacity, integrity and independent-minded. Experience in stakeholder management and funding is also desirable.

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Proactive marketing and business development executives – CRM, internal engagement and career insights

Red Star Kim

New CIM professional marketing qualifications – 2020 (kimtasso.com) Be proactive – Recognise the need to move away from simply responding to requests and providing a service.

CRM 130
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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

0% Focus/targeting 0% Awareness/interpersonal skills 33% Sales process/methodology 67% Discipline and motivation What do you use to help fee-earners research sales prospects?

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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

Red Star Kim

8% Achieving consensus/buy in 8% Managing disagreement between partners/teams 25% Dealing with fixed views 17% Managing involvement from other functions 8% Being confident of the outcome/results 17% Justifying the investment 17% Discussing implementation and evaluation criteria Related coaching and consulting posts Learning & Development Update: (..)

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Book review – Can we start again? The patterns of NLP applied to business interactions by Daryll Scott

Red Star Kim

However, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) has arisen a few times at recent training workshops so I thought I would publish the review as a blog post. This book review was published in Magazine – PM Forum way back in 2008. Book review – Can we start again? The patterns of NLP applied to business interactions by Daryll Scott.

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Customer service definition, skills, and important principles for 2021

Zendesk

Technical skills are important, but soft skills matter, too. Here are the top customer service skills your customer service representatives need: Language and tone. Interpersonal skills. Collaboration skills. Interpersonal skills. Learn the top customer service skills for 2021 in our blog post.

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Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective

Red Star Kim

This article “Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective” has just been published on Lexology. I am relieved that these were all things I mentioned in the 2020 book. The mental health revolution and our ability to face ever more uncertainty puts resilience high on the list.