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Checklist: 25 practical and professional skills for marketing and business development assistants (2015)

Yesterday saw another successful training session for PM Forum with delegates from legal, accountancy and property firms at the “Practical and Professional Skills for marketing and business development assistants” http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ Summarising the discussion, here is a checklist of 25 practical and professional skills for marketing and business development assistants. Perception  Read More

2015-11-20T15:38:58+00:00November 20, 2015|Kim's Blog, Marketing|

Four questions from secretaries on marketing and business development: thought leadership, campaigns, social media and search engines

I recently ran one of the regular “Introduction to marketing and business development for secretaries and assistants” sessions for PM Forum (see http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/) The delegates were split equally between those who worked within marketing and BD teams and those who supported a legal or accounting fee-earner. At the end of Read More

2015-11-12T13:20:09+00:00November 12, 2015|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Social Media, Web Sites|

7 building blocks of a proactive marketing executive (2015)

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of leading 18 delegates from the legal, accountancy and engineering professions as we explored the personal, professional and technical challenges of becoming a “proactive marketing executive”. http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ Whilst we acknowledge that many marketing and business development professionals necessarily start their careers in Read More

2015-10-07T16:22:40+01:00October 7, 2015|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Employee Benefits in law firms – All about the money rather than well-being?

I recently did some work on The Lawyer’s employee workplace benefits research into 70 law firms that resulted in articles in both The Lawyer http://www.thelawyer.com/ (15 June 2015) and Employee Benefits http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/ (July/August 2015) magazines. The overall findings were that there was less flexibility and innovation in employee benefits in Read More

2016-04-13T12:30:53+01:00August 20, 2015|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills|

Improve learning effectiveness – Using Kolb’s learning styles

If, like me, you use some of the relatively quieter summer months to tackle some learning you may be wondering how to improve your learning effectiveness. I wrote, a short while ago, about two models to help us understand more about the learning process: http://kimtasso.com/boost-training-effectiveness-learning-theory-nutshell/ where I outlined Honey & Read More

2015-08-18T17:23:44+01:00August 18, 2015|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|
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