Last week I was joined by over 20 surveyors at the first presentation on this new MBL course on “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice”. Change management is a key topic. During the day we covered a lot of material including: business planning, strategy development, management functions, market analysis, Read More
I recently participated in a webinar on intercultural working presented by the Open University Business School (OUBS). The speakers included Dr Bjorn Claes, a senior lecturer in operations management, and Jeremy Roebuck of Grow Movement. Here are the main points: What is culture? Definitions vary from “how we make sense Read More
At a recent MBL seminar on “Developing and sustaining your private client practice” https://www.mblseminars.com/Outline?progid=5747&AddSeminarToBasket=1026988 a delegate said that while she found the day really good, she had so many ideas that she didn’t know where to start. So this blog post is for her. 1. Understand the numbers Make friends Read More
On 25th June I went along to the fabulous conference venue at 30 Euston Square for the second annual Estates Gazette property marketing conference. It was an interesting line-up of speakers and panellists. Here are my top takeaways (some of which were tweeted under #EGSummit): 1. “Marketing used to be Read More
At a recent CLT course on “Business Development for Lawyers” I asked delegates (many of whom where insolvency experts) what they would most like as a follow up blog post. They asked for something that pulled everything together to make it easy for them to create a business development campaign. This is Read More
