My first book, published in 2000, was on selling skills so it gives me great pleasure to sometimes indulge my passion and provide sales training. I recently completed a series of short in-house training sessions for a property client on “Fabulous First Meetings” where we covered a range of selling Read More
In many of the courses I run for the Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx, the topic of assertiveness arises. Sometimes this relates to people needing the confidence to speak up and share ideas or to challenge requests. Often it relates to finding ways to decline or modify inappropriate requests – how Read More
During the course of a career spanning over 30 years I’ve read a lot of sales books. I even wrote my own back in 2000 (http://kimtasso.com/publications/selling-skills-for-the-professions/). But when I first read Insight selling back in 2014 I thought it was a bright star of a book amongst many disappointing and Read More
Our workshop on driving change in professional practices proved to be an intense and challenging day learning about psychology, leadership and change management. Delegates worked on their plans for achieving desired changes in themselves, their teams and their firms. Here are some of the highlights from the delegates’ perspective. The Read More
Last week I was joined in London by accountants, tax advisers, surveyors, lawyers and business development folk for the first public workshop on persuasive writing for business development. Writing topics of interest At the outset, I asked the delegates to share their areas of interest or concern and their main Read More
