Author: Seth Partridge
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#Leadership Question: what is the cost of asking forgiveness over permission?
In this video, I explore the real cost of “asking forgiveness over permission” – trust. Building relationships on trust, rather than shortcuts, leads to a sound foundation to build on.
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Maximizing Salesforce User Adoption: Tips and Tricks
Struggling to get your team to embrace Salesforce? You’re not alone. Many clients face this challenge, aiming for maximum ROI. Here are effective tips to boost user adoption: multi-stream training, leveraging AI, showing immediate benefits, highlighting future value, making Salesforce essential, securing executive buy-in, and celebrating progress.
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16 Ways to Build Trust
In the world of consulting, trust is everything. The floor and ceiling of your success as a consultant is determined by your ability to build and maintain trust. Here are the top ways I have learned to #BuildTrust with clients and team members over the last 15 years: 💪 Do everything in my power to…
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State of Soft Skills Chapter 6: How A Software CRO Thrives
Beju Lakhani (Majente’s CRO) shares how to maintain trust and alignment in key accounts with top-notch people, soft skills and processes.
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CRM Portal Tips: Where to start, data modeling, and UX
I recently contributed to a LinkedIn Advice article called “Which self-service support portals offer the best integration with popular CRM systems?”. This is by no means a comprehensive guide, but there are some valuable tips in here if you are starting your CRM-Portal journey!
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State of Soft Skills Chapter 5: Understand Your Customer Throughout the Project Lifecycle
Enterprise software projects start in sales, move to requirements gathering, then are developed. In today’s chapter, we are hearing from three cloud software experts on the importance of understanding the needs, motivations, and emotions of others.
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State of Soft Skills Chapter 4: Designers and Devs Ask the Right Questions
From the visual design, to the code developed behind it, thinking about the user and understanding the customer are keys to success. Today, we’re hearing from a senior designer and a senior technical consultant on the soft skills they use to excel.
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State of Soft Skills Chapter 3: What are Tech Recruiters Seeking?
Even in industries dominated by technical expertise, soft skills are surprisingly valued and sought after by recruiters and staffing professionals. In this chapter, we’ll be hearing from a proven HR professional who has an incredible resume of hiring rockstars in the CRM and digital marketing tech spaces.
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State of Soft Skills Chapter 2: Shine Early, Thrive in Prime Time
Soft skills are an absolute point of differentiation at all points in your career. In this chapter, we’ll be hearing from a recent grad starting his career, and a seasoned sales veteran in the prime of his career.
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State of Soft Skills Chapter 1: Are You Okay?
It’s 2024 and Soft Skills are more important than ever before. I talked to some of the absolute best people I know in many different roles and in different stages in their careers. In this series, we’re sharing why soft skills are crucial for success.