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Top six leadership qualities?

Red Star Kim

Daryl Fielding | Sales & Marketing Speaker | Booking Agent (champions-speakers.co.uk). Personally, I think emotional intelligence (EQ) – particularly self-awareness – and the art of communication to promote collaboration should be in the list. So what do you consider to be the top six leadership qualities?

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Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective

Red Star Kim

So, it seemed appropriate to revisit the topic in the light of recent developments – the return to office working, the accelerating digital revolution, the escalating war for talent and the myriad other challenges facing the profession – all of which place huge demands on leaders. Whether digitally or in person. Digital body language.

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Research update on the most in-demand soft skills

Red Star Kim

Diversity and inclusion (communicating for D&I) is covered well here Book review: Digital Body Language – How to build trust by Erica Dhawan (kimtasso.com) ). The authors suggest that more is done to systematically assess (e.g.

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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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Telephone call challenges: Emotions, data, selling and follow up

Red Star Kim

Some were fortunate to receive full details from the firm’s CRM supported by analytics showing digital activity and enquiry details. You need to have a deep knowledge of all the different issues clients may have and examples and stories of how your firm has helped people in similar situations.

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Preparing M&BD professionals for the future – learning, skills and knowledge transfer

Red Star Kim

And that some content – e.g. digital skills – is best learned through video whereas “softer” skills through personal interactions. How to deliver M&BD training and promote learning effectiveness Our second interactive exercise considered how to promote learning and harness different training opportunities. What are soft skills?

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

Red Star Kim

Changes are being driven by fee-earner expectations, time challenges facing fee-earners, changing client requirements, increasing competition, data/digital transformation and more sophisticated M&BD programmes (see below). What do fee-earners expect from M&BD?