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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

At the recent PM Forum workshop on “Selling processes and sales skills for marketing and business development professionals” we focused on sales and selling challenges in professional services. Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills. Their fee-earners are often in the same boat.

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Coaching and Consulting skills – Limiting beliefs, approaches to helping and marketing consultancy

Red Star Kim

This requires you to listen carefully to what is being said and to observe non-verbal communication that might suggest that there is something else to consider. A good example of a limiting belief comes from running. When people didn’t believe a person could run a mile in under four minutes – this became a limiting belief.

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Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective

Red Star Kim

An article in October 2022 in Training Magazine argued that the four most important soft skills to prioritise for remote work – to bridge the distance gap – were emotional intelligence (I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in my book), next-level communication (ie over-communication), active listening and conflict resolution.

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

Red Star Kim

Sometimes marketing and sales system are not integrated. And there was the added complication of long sales cycles. However, some lack systems and data for monitoring activities once leads are passed to fee-earners for follow up and nurturing. This ignited ideas on how to address some of the issues.

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10 Sales Skills Every Salesperson Should Master

Chally

In reality, sales has developed from a “trade” to a “technology” and then finally a Profession. If you’re looking to start your career in sales, or build a strong team, consider these ten key sales skills to be a better salesperson­. Find more for team leaders in our key habits of a successful sales manager.

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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

Red Star Kim

There are many aspects of consulting competencies and attributes: emotional intelligence, analytical, problem-solving, delivery of results, leadership, project management, commercial orientation, entrepreneurial spirit, team work as well as functional expertise and market/sector knowledge. What is a consultant? Consultancy.uk

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Exploring the Influence of AI on Leadership Roles – an experiment by a CEO

MDI Training

While AI can assist to some extent in identifying individual strengths and weaknesses , the interpersonal and emotional intelligence required for effective coaching is a capability that AI has not yet fully achieved. Coaching potential This is one of the biggest challenges for AI. “What can humans do better?