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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

Digital environment – Where people buy people, the challenge of forging strong personal relationships becomes more acute when most communications are managed through digital channels. Sales skills There are numerous inventories of what selling skills and qualities are needed.

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

Red Star Kim

Four themes in the art of selling – Integrating marketing and sales (kimtasso.com) A creative exercise on engagement generated some interesting metaphors – for example, a brick wall suggesting a lack of communication, a carrot considering motivation and a Leonardo di Caprio shrug suggesting indifference.

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

Red Star Kim

Learning is critical for both retaining people and preparing for the future A new (free to members) Skills Development Platform includes significant content, a learning management system, gamification (e.g. This confirms the vital contribution of the professional services sector at a time when growth in the UK overall is flat-lining.

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

Red Star Kim

Non-Verbal Communication (NVC) – the basics (Video) (kimtasso.com) Rapport and communication The bulk of the book is in chapters covering making a connection with a focus on rapport development.

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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. Coaches and consultants use facilitation skills. 77% Good 15% OK 8% Poor Which consulting skill do you most need to develop?

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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. New soft skills for remote working. The shift to remote working during lockdown drove the need to develop several new soft skills. Whether digitally or in person.

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Customer service definition, skills, and important principles for 2021

Zendesk

What started as a global health crisis became the accelerant in our transition to a truly digital-first world. Technical skills are important, but soft skills matter, too. Here are the top customer service skills your customer service representatives need: Language and tone. Clear communication. Active listening.