From the last six months of The Lawyer magazine, I picked out the following highlights from the various reports of law firm panels and pitches: Collaborative working with Barclays or RBS (30th June) “If you want a panel place then you need to get used to working in partnership with Read More
I read this book a while ago but have mentioned it to several people (leaders) recently during coaching programmes so thought I’d write a short review to encourage them to read it. The book, which is based doctoral research using 360 degree feedback (Leadership/Impact instrument – a registered trademark of Read More
On Monday night the London offices of lawyers Allen & Overy hosted the inaugural award ceremony for “The Laurie Young Global Prize for Thought Leadership 2014”. It was a veritable business hall of fame with participation from such prestigious organisations as Harvard Business Review (HBR), London Business School (LBS), Boston Read More
Despite over two decades of successful sales experience, I am not a fan of telephone cold calling (my reasons are shown below if you are interested). However, whenever I provide a marketing, sales or business development training course (as I was doing yesterday morning), people ask me how to be Read More
I have been helping law firms for almost two decades with their major informal pitches and formal tenders. I’m pleased to report that my success rate is almost 100%. I train both marketing/business development people and lawyers themselves in effective sales and pitch techniques. So I was interested to hear Read More