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Future Marketing and Business Development Manager: Connections, Collaboration, Context, Creativity, Cause and Continuous learning

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For complex projects we must collaborate with those in other functional specialisms such as finance, technology, people and innovation. We covered a variety of hard skills (vision, strategy, finance, MBD planning) and soft skills (leadership, buy-in and influencing, personal brand, managing a team and motivation).

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Consultative sales 4 basic principles and just why the consultative selling process works 

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Speaking of sales documents, check out our free sales proposal template before negotiating your next deal. Truly understanding client needs requires active listening and emotional intelligence. Sectors such as retail, healthcare, finance, and software all work with consultative selling.

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Soft skills for tough barristers (Reflection, Self-Coaching, Change, EQ, Awareness, Goal-setting, Communications) Counsel Magazine

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Improve self-awareness (and emotional intelligence) Emotional intelligence (EQ or EI) quotient is a technical term covering many soft skills. Here’s my view of the top three soft skillsets for barristers 1. We also need to know how others perceive us – whether team members, subordinates, leaders, referrers or clients.