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Bridging today’s skill gaps to respond to tomorrow’s change

Mercuri International

“In three years, 54% of company employees will need significant retraining of their skills“. That’s what emerged from the World Economic Forum 2020 1. A significant truth that reveals how skill gaps are a factor not to be underestimated. A bridge to overcome the skill gap. Sales and skill gaps.

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

Red Star Kim

Active Listening (Video) (kimtasso.com) There’s analysis of the use of “ and” rather than “but ”, the idea of priming conversations and distortions, deletions and generalisations), influential speaking (framing and the Milton model, “agreement is influence, disagreement is resistance”, pre-frames, softening requests), negotiation (chunking), presentations (..)

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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. Its four categories were cognitive, digital, self-leadership and interpersonal. I am relieved that these were all things I mentioned in the 2020 book.