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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

Nervousness – Shyness, modesty, lack of confidence and fear of failure can make fee-earners reluctant to organise meetings to take the next steps in building a potential client relationship. Sales skills There are numerous inventories of what selling skills and qualities are needed.

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10 Top Interpersonal Skills That Employers Look For

CMOE

What are interpersonal skills? Interpersonal skills refer to interactions between people, especially those related to positive engagement with others, successful teamwork, and the ability to integrate into an organization. It typically takes a person with excellent interpersonal skills to create a cohesive team.

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

Red Star Kim

What is the marketing consultant’s approach from the first meeting? How much do you value strategy in the equation? Are you committed to seeing a strategy fully through before engaging in new tactics? Are you open to a strategic brand audit/assessment? Who else has the marketing consultant worked with? Are they certified as marketing experts?

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Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective

Red Star Kim

The shift to remote working during lockdown drove the need to develop several new soft skills. From my perspective, first and foremost of the new soft skills – with the reduction in non-verbal cues and the reduced influence of big personality and high status in the digital world – was the ability to create a powerful online presence.

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

Red Star Kim

There were comments that it was unusual for people to be in the office so face time and in person meetings – where it is easier to develop rapport, trust and solid working relationships – were rare. Finding ways to meet with people in real time (such as at social events) can help. Make myself more visible in meeting with fee earners.

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Book review: Sales Mind – 48 tools to help you sell by Helen Kensett

Red Star Kim

Some of these reflect Cialdini’s keys of persuasion and influence Influence – Cialdini’s six principles of the psychology of persuasion (kimtasso.com) Sales meeting guidance She advocates that the start of each meeting is for knowledge collection mode – asking lots of simple questions (What and Why).

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10 Sales Skills Every Salesperson Should Master

Chally

In order to meet quotas or exceed expectations, these ten skills require honing your soft skills as well as direct and indirect customer relations. Essential Sales Skills Every Salesperson Should Have. In fact, the skills used today to be a great salesperson go much deeper. Soft Skills and Traits.