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Private client management and marketing: Business plans, recruitment, assessments and automation (Nov 2023)

Red Star Kim

It was good to meet the private client lawyers – some recently promoted to head of department – for a workshop on “ Managing and growing your private client practice” earlier this month. An important assessment that I use a lot is for Emotional Intelligence (EQ). kimtasso.com). kimtasso.com).

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Nine insights: Sales processes and selling skills for targeting and meetings

Red Star Kim

Behaviour in sales meetings). This article is a reminder of the key points valued by the delegates: Nine insights: Sales processes and selling skills for targeting and meetings. Sales meetings. Delegates reported some fee-earner challenges when attending preliminary sales meetings. Debrief after meetings.

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Building and optimizing your diverse, multifunctional “Dream Team”

Strategic Account Management Association

This involves understanding how the adult learner gets new information and shifting to meet them where they are. Emotional intelligence. My definition for emotional intelligence is the capacity to be aware of one’s self and to express one’s emotions and handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.

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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. email, web site and social media analytics) and at the conclusion (e.g. Their appetite for new clients and more work can therefore be limited.

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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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Telephone skills: Anxiety, voice, etiquette and the client experience

Red Star Kim

All communications were disrupted during lockdown – the telephone once again became a valuable means of communications in the absence of face-to-face meetings. using social media to see when people were most likely to be available. We also talked about the EQ diagnostic with this book Book review – Emotional Intelligence 2.0

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Achieve more engagement and buy-in: Relationships, Plan, Expectations, Benefits, Persuasion and Training

Red Star Kim

An introduction to emotional intelligence (EQ) and empathy (Video) (kimtasso.com). And we can ask questions Why are questions so important? Questioning skills) (kimtasso.com). This way we build mutual understanding and empathy. Everyone is different. We must be realistic about time constraints.