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The Future of SAM – Revisited

Strategic Account Management Association

Kahn recommends that “by providing the optimum value that the customer expects, you can generate a very profitable business.”. #3 4 Facilitative style. 3 Strategic mindset. Become a “strategizer” who is always focusing on new ways to help your own organization. Be an orchestrator. 5 General management skills.

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Strategic Planning Facilitation for Nonprofits

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

After a turbulent 2020, filled with extensive change, strategic planning is more important than ever - especially for non-profit and mission-based organizations. While your WHY (your reason for being) will remain steady, your HOW may have to pivot to address macro trends, both globally and locally, as well as shifting workplace dynamics.

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How Do You Improve Sales Performance?

The Center for Sales Strategy

Good sales performance leads to increased sales and greater profits. This will facilitate the productive use of your sales managers' time and a motivated sales force that helps improve your company's bottom line. It's obvious why sales performance is a crucial part of any organization. A motivated sales team will perform well.

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Book review: All you need to know about commercial awareness by Christopher Stoakes

Red Star Kim

I facilitate various workshops designed to increase commercial awareness. I invited him once to facilitate a junior professionals’ networking event for an accountancy practice – where he talked about one of his other books “All you need to know about the City” (latest version updated in 2022). For young professionals.

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Strategy case studies and more matrices

Red Star Kim

The used an external facilitator and sent an advance questionnaire (positioning, approach to sectors and services, rates of growth, culture, service delivery, learnings from other firms) to all partners. They used the eight step process of John Kotter in his book “Leading Change”. What are we able to achieve?

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The Enablement Profession at a Crossroads

Mike Kunkle

To firmly establish the function as required and themselves as integral players in their companies, enablement experts must be equipped to prove their worth by improving sales results and bolstering profitability. They must show that they can make an impact with enablement and move the needle on the metrics that matter most.

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GE-McKinsey Matrix: A Strategic Business Portfolio & Investment Analysis Tool

Flevy

A problem that executives often face is finding a tool to identify where and how to compete, identify profitable markets, evaluate investment options, and price their products rightly. market, size, industry growth rate, industry profitability, and competition. Outlined by McKinsey & Co. Business Unit Strength.