There are some excellent models and resources about cross-cultural intelligence. (I particularly like the Hofstede Country comparison tool). But this book – recommended to me by one of my clients – was a revelation and is my favourite resource so far. I recommend it to leaders, human resource professionals or Read More
The “Assertiveness, effectiveness and impact” Home - PM Forum training workshop was lively. Thanks to the delegates from legal, accountancy, private equity, insolvency and engineering firms from across the UK. Amongst their sector were: social housing, charities/NFP, real estate and oil & gas. Assertiveness is the extent to which you Read More
Lawyers and tax advisers attended the recent MBL workshop on “Pick up the Phone – Client service and sales opportunities for professionals”. This article forms part of the learning resources for the session. Future workshops are listed at Kim Tasso - MBL Seminars. Telephone skills – Focus on the caller’s Read More
I thought you might appreciate some highlights from the recent PM Forum workshop “Cross-selling and referrer management accelerator”. Delegates represented real estate, litigation, social housing, accountancy and insolvency teams. They variously targeted commercial organisations, professional practices and private client markets - some internationally. Some had sophisticated and established referral programmes whilst others Read More
Delegates from legal, accountancy and pensions firms attended last week’s “Selling Processes and Sales Skills for Marketing and BD Professionals” workshop by PM Forum. We explored the processes supporting complex sales cycles. A key theme was educating fee-earners – especially to manage expectations about the length of the sales cycle Read More
