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Stakeholder engagement and buy-in: Influence and persuasion skills with Aristotle and Knights and Dinosaurs

Red Star Kim

At the recent PM Forum workshop on stakeholder engagement and buy-in there was an interesting mix of delegates from law, accountancy and actuarial firms from across the UK and Ireland and even China. Work roles varied across marketing, business development, PR, internal communications, events, digital and graphic design.

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Stakeholder Mastery 3.0 – The Six Steps You Must Take

Jermaine Edwards

In 2016 I wrote a post on the five foundation steps for stakeholder management success in key account management, that was well received and guided lots of leaders. Our contacts and stakeholders just aren’t making decisions – How do we deal with their disengagement and getting pushed back and back while they still expect more from us?

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Achieve more engagement and buy-in: Relationships, Plan, Expectations, Benefits, Persuasion and Training

Red Star Kim

At the recent Training – PM Forum on “ Buy-in, engagement and stakeholder management ” workshop we welcomed executive and manager delegates from legal and accountancy firms as well as a delegate from Poland. This is challenging as everyone is time poor and most communications are digital. Everyone is different.

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Relationship Management Guide – Going Beyond the CRM

Upland

Gone were the face to face office meetings and networking at industry events, and in their place were hour-long zoom calls with sellers wearing hoodies. Now, however, things have changed. When a deal comes down to the line, it’s the quality of the relationship that gets the seller the phone call when a buyer is making decisions.

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Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing

Red Star Kim

However, top-down analysis and decision-making ensures that the various units are working towards the firm’s goals (a “one-firm approach”) and making tough choices between competing interests. And where people have developed their own strategy they are more likely to work towards its successful implementation.

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Book review: The Strategy Book by Max McKeown

Red Star Kim

Becoming a strategic thinker – a strategist – is about getting better at shaping events…You learn that reacting and responding to events is just as important as planning”. A clever strategy is between the extremes – plan deliberate actions to shape the future but stay close to local events and react to them.

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Exclusive insights from the SAMA Executive Symposium

Arpedio

SAM professionals are not just account managers; they play a pivotal role as value creators, ecosystem orchestrators, and pioneers of data-driven decision-making, crucial for unlocking market share and profitability. SAM professionals identified as value creators, ecosystem orchestrators, and champions of data-driven decision-making.