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Assertive communication: The importance of voice

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A key theme from the workshop was Assertive communication: The importance of voice. Keys to Assertive Communication Assertiveness is the ability to stand up for what you believe while staying calm and positive and respecting others’ views. What Are The Six C’s Of Compelling Communication? And Why Should You Care?

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Future Marketing/BD Manager – Build your personal brand and increase your strategic contribution (December 2022)

Red Star Kim

Develop both hard (technical) and soft (interpersonal) skills. Coaching and consulting skills for M&BD workshop (November 2021) (kimtasso.com). Book review: Coaching skills: A handbook by Jenny Rogers (kimtasso.com). Creative communication in “difficult” situations. Delegate aims. Network with peers.

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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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This compares with 84% for the Spring 2023 tracker and 71% for the Winter 2022 tracker. Inflation peaked in October 2022. Key findings of the Summer 2023 tracker included: The Forum’s confidence index (the net of those panel members expecting expansion and those expecting contraction) was 80%. Last month it reduced from 6.8%

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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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Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective

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The shift to remote working during lockdown drove the need to develop several new soft skills. 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. Such as the way we start or end our emails and how we message by text and on WhatsApp.

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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?