Strategic choices

Managing Partners’ Forum Strategy Summit

Thanks to the Managing Partners' Forum  Strategy Summit at haysmacintyre earlier this week. My takeaways from the insightful facilitators and panellists were: Recruitment of lawyers is down on previous years whereas business support is up Increase in tax hires in law firms Increase in marketing roles (exceeding 2019 numbers) Whilst Read More

2023-07-13T15:45:33+01:00July 13, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Strategy|

Improve your strategic thinking – Seven insights (2020)

At the beginning of 2020 at a “Being more strategic” workshop by the Professional Marketing Forum  the delegates – from a variety of legal, accountancy, property and consultancy firms – reflected on how to improve strategic thinking both in themselves and their firms. A further session is imminent and I Read More

2020-06-22T12:16:35+01:00June 22, 2020|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|

Be more onion, time out from the tsunami and other strategy insights

At the recent “Be more strategic” workshop (organised by Professional Marketing Forum https://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx) the delegates - from law firms, accountancy practices, management consultancies and property partnerships – discussed a range of ideas and tools to be more strategic. Be more onion, time out from the tsunami and other strategy insights Read More

2019-03-25T16:03:40+00:00March 25, 2019|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|

Marketing planning in a nutshell

I provide many public training courses on marketing planning in a nutshell. But questions about marketing planning arise in many other public and in-house training courses on business development, referrer management and social selling. And of course people ask me for a standard marketing plan template. But it’s rarely as Read More

Marketing planning in a nutshell – Selecting a strategy

At last week’s “Marketing planning in a nutshell” workshop by Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ the delegates requested that I write a blog on selecting strategies. The first part of the session focused on the marketing audit – analysing internal and external sources of information in order to identify strengths, weakness, Read More

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