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Managing Partners’ Forum – Highlights from the Advisory Board Meeting September 2023

Red Star Kim

Qualities sought in NEDs included: financial literacy, tech literacy, ESG knowledge, change management experience, people literacy, interpersonal skills, team collaboration, consensus-building, intellectual capacity, integrity and independent-minded. Experience in stakeholder management and funding is also desirable.

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

Red Star Kim

Four themes in the art of selling – Integrating marketing and sales (kimtasso.com) A creative exercise on engagement generated some interesting metaphors – for example, a brick wall suggesting a lack of communication, a carrot considering motivation and a Leonardo di Caprio shrug suggesting indifference.

CRM 100
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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

Digital environment – Where people buy people, the challenge of forging strong personal relationships becomes more acute when most communications are managed through digital channels. Sales skills There are numerous inventories of what selling skills and qualities are needed.

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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

Red Star Kim

It’s worth touching on some related skills : Facilitating Essentially, facilitation is about making communication, interaction, collaboration or learning easier. Coaches and consultants use facilitation skills. 77% Good 15% OK 8% Poor Which consulting skill do you most need to develop?

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Customer service definition, skills, and important principles for 2021

Zendesk

Technical skills are important, but soft skills matter, too. Here are the top customer service skills your customer service representatives need: Language and tone. Clear communication. Interpersonal skills. Collaboration skills. Clear communication. Interpersonal skills.

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The most important customer service skills for 2021

Zendesk

Messaging skills. Communication skills. Remote work skills. Customer service software skills. Support leaders can provide empathy training , but it’s also a good idea to hire support reps who can already put themselves in an angry customer’s shoes and communicate that understanding to the customer.

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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. I observed that in the brave new digital world where silence felt uncomfortably like a technology glitch, it was as if our listening skills evaporated.