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Bridges, Not Barriers: Building Productive Partnerships with Technical Experts

Collaborating with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) remains the top challenge for bid professionals. Explore how to move beyond the taskmaster role by building a culture of mutual trust, leveraging technology to reduce SME cognitive load, and establishing the bid team as the strategic hub of institutional knowledge.

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In this webinar we will discuss

Demonstrating Individual Strategic Value

How to build trust with SMEs by engaging with them when you don’t need anything and solving their problems outside of the bid cycle.

The Art of Upstream Preparation

Moving from a reactive state to a proactive one by integrating the bid team into sales forecasting to avoid surprising experts with tight deadlines.

Reducing SME Friction with Technology

Using centralized knowledge bases to eliminate repetitive questions, allowing experts to focus on “filling the gaps” rather than rewriting standard content.

Fostering a One-Team Culture

The importance of sharing credit, expressing gratitude, and positioning the bid manager as a helpful connector within the organization.

Speakers

Darrell Woodward CP APMP

Director

Prosfora Solutions

Darrell Woodward CP APMP

Director

Prosfora Solutions

I help organizations simplify and scale their document, workflow, and content management programmes by turning complex technology into practical, high-impact solutions. I design award-winning proposal automation that enables personalized, persuasive sales documents and help teams extract real business insight from their RFP and content platforms. A regular APMP speaker, I’m passionate about practical technology, Generative AI, and smarter ways of working in bid and proposal teams.

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