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Big Customer Negotiating: Dancing with a Gorilla

Holden Advisors

Those negotiations are often tough and focus on price. As a result of those brutal negotiations, the oftentimes smaller seller will lose money or barely break even. The truth is that we see large and small sellers often give too much during hard, price-oriented negotiations with big customers.

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Women in Leadership: Debunking negotiation myths with Wema Hoover

Zendesk

High-stakes negotiations can be challenging for even the most seasoned executive. The internationally recognized DE&I leader recently spoke during Zendesk’s Women in Leadership event on “ Debunking negotiation myths ,” sharing her insights for being an effective negotiator in today’s competitive business environment.

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Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective

Red Star Kim

This article “Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective” has just been published on Lexology. Its four categories were cognitive, digital, self-leadership and interpersonal. The post Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective appeared first on Kim Tasso.

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Why Leadership is Important in Sales

DemandFarm

Efficient sales leadership becomes essential to navigate these challenges and remain competitive. While motivational speeches matter, true leadership demands flexibility, keen observation, and the agility to adjust leadership styles to market changes for efficient sales. Different leadership styles intertwine with sales.

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Why "Winning" Internal Negotiations Leads to External Wins

Vantage Partners

Whether those partners are truly third parties, or more like subsidiaries, business units, regional divisions, or something else, they are often in fact accountable to different leadership teams with different incentives and priorities.

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Collaborative Leadership?

Peter Simoons

An increasing amount of alliances & partnerships for a company also demands different leadership styles within that company; a collaborative leadership style. Negotiation with suppliers also took place around these parameters, whereby price was often used to get the best deal for the buying customer.

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Unlocking Success: Strategies to Avoid Costly Hiring Mistakes

Customer Think

In this episode of the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley discuss the high cost of making a bad hire in sales. They emphasize the importance of creating an ideal hiring profile with hard and soft skills and non-negotiables.