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

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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

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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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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

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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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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

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

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

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They are organised into sections: The seller mind shift To see To think: Synthesising your sell To think: Communicating your sell To improve Closing the sale Selling skills The author considers the difference between using our innate natural selling skills compared to learned techniques. How it is better than competitors?

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Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective

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This article “Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective” has just been published on Lexology. I observed that in the brave new digital world where silence felt uncomfortably like a technology glitch, it was as if our listening skills evaporated.