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Managing Stakeholders in Strategic Alliances: Beyond the Org Chart

Peter Simoons

It’s about people, specifically, the many stakeholders who shape the alliance from behind the scenes and across organisational boundaries. Effective stakeholder management isn’t about pleasing everyone. It also means communicating with intention. Stakeholders don’t need every update, but they do need relevance.

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Proactive Marketing and BD Executive: Skills questions

Red Star Kim

Campaign implementation requires communication, collaboration, project management and monitoring skills. Questioning skills) Empathy and emotional intelligence (EI or EQ) These are the bed rock of good communication and relationship skills. We need to be heard. We need others to listen. We need to be able to set boundaries.

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Winning Over Buying Groups: How to Sell to Multiple B2B Decision Makers

Brooks Group

77% of B2B buyers report their last purchase was complex, involving multiple stakeholders. More stakeholders means longer sales cycles. Sellers need sophisticated communication and consultative skills to understand varying stakeholder needs. Decision-making time, compared to five to seven years ago, has increased by 60%.

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The Ultimate Guide to Build a Top Performing Key Account Management Team from Scratch

DemandFarm

Relationship Intelligence and Stakeholder Knowledge The best account managers know business is personal. They create trust-based connections by mapping out and understanding key stakeholders, tracking team shifts, and staying updated on client organization changes. Core Traits of High-Performing Account Managers 1.Relationship

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Moving From Strategy to Execution

Speaker: Barb Barker and Shannon Riley, Wrike Team

How to communicate the strategy to the project to your other stakeholders. Join us in our exclusive panel, where we will discuss: Determining how to connect your function to the overall organization. Ways of connecting your projects to overall goals of organization. Why having a single source of truth is valuable.

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B2B Buyers: The Latest Stats Salespeople Must Know [+HubSpot Data]

Hubspot Sales

By and large, they’re chasing improved efficiency and productivity, a better experience for their customers, and ways to streamline the communication and collaboration of their own internal teams. Involve key stakeholders early and move your deals forward whenever you can, but trust the process.

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How Sales Teams Can Use AI to Follow Up With Leads

Hubspot Sales

I identified a key stakeholder with purchasing authority, reached out with a simple yet elegant email pitch, and they responded asking me for a contract they could sign right away. Improve Messaging Even when a prospect is an ideal fit, closing the deal requires thoughtful communication.

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