Management Skills

Legal market research – Lexis-Nexis Bellwether research report 2017 “Why independent law firms are thriving”

Now in its fifth year, LexisNexis Bellwether has released the first of three legal market research reports for 2017. The research, in conjunction with Linda Jones & Partners, is based on 10 qualitative interviews and quantitative research with 118 lawyers in independent law firms (75% of whom had worked at Read More

2017-06-01T17:35:38+01:00June 1, 2017|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Strategy|

Coaching skills – The power of questions (2017)

At the most recent coaching skills course we reflected on the power of questions. In most coaching sessions, we use a simple framework of questions like John Whitmore’s GROW (Goals – Reality - Options - Will to act) to help the person reach their own conclusions about what they want Read More

Presentation skills – Preparing the content and delivery

Whether part of sales or pitching training or for standalone presentations for seminars and conferences I conduct many in-house training sessions on presentation skills. Yesterday, I delivered a training session on pitching for the PM Forum (http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx)  and there was a request for general presentation skills guidance during that course. Read More

Book review – “Strategic tendering for professional services” by Matthew Fuller and Tim Nightingale

It’s about time that there was a new book on strategic tendering for professional services. It’s too long – 1993 - since John de Forte and Guy Jones wrote their ground breaking “Proposals, pitches and beauty parades”. Whilst I valued Basil Sawczuk’s “Creating winning bids” in 2013 it is focused Read More

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