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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. There is rarely a deep understanding of how disparate and disconnected decision-making units are across such large organisations.

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Top 11 Professional Selling Skills

Brooks Group

Successful sales careers and revenue-generating sales teams are built on the bedrock of 11 professional selling skills. They directly impact revenue generation and overall business success, so make sure your sales training addresses them. Discovery The ability to probe deeply and ask open-ended questions is a core skill.

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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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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

Red Star Kim

There are many aspects of consulting competencies and attributes: emotional intelligence, analytical, problem-solving, delivery of results, leadership, project management, commercial orientation, entrepreneurial spirit, team work as well as functional expertise and market/sector knowledge. What is a consultant? Consultancy.uk

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The most important customer service skills for 2021

Zendesk

While the importance of good customer service isn’t under question, the skills support teams need to make it happen often is. Businesses might also consider allowing agents to make exceptions to certain policies in situations that require empathy. Time management is a good skill to look for when hiring a support rep.

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

Red Star Kim

They are organised into sections: The seller mind shift To see To think: Synthesising your sell To think: Communicating your sell To improve Closing the sale Selling skills The author considers the difference between using our innate natural selling skills compared to learned techniques. Understand how and why they make decisions.

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10 Sales Skills Every Salesperson Should Master

Chally

We know that personality traits dont predict success , because charisma can only take you so far before needing interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with customers in many different environments. In fact, the top skills needed for sales can be broken down into three categories.