Management Skills

Musical chairs for legal leaders

With ABS on the horizon and firms facing huge change management programmes, it’s not surprising that there’s lots of comings and goings with regards to leadership. And it’s interesting to note an increase in non-legal appointments in senior positions. Here’s a few that caught my attention: 750 lawyer Taylor Wessing appointed a Read More

2013-08-06T17:12:11+01:00February 14, 2012|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Statistics and trends|

Six top tips for improving personal impact

Last week I joined a web cast presented by an excellent HR consultant that I have worked with in the property sector – Alyson Pellowe (www.pvhr.com @alysonpellowe) where consultant Ian Crocker talked about personal impact. This is a topic about on which I write, train and coach a fair amount so Read More

2013-08-05T23:35:24+01:00February 5, 2012|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management, Selling|

Strategic drift – a risk for partnerships

In most of the courses I teach and the coaching provided to senior lawyers, accountants and surveyors I talk about the importance of having a firm-wide strategy. Even if it is merely an “umbrella strategy” of overall parameters about how the equity partners hope that the firm will develop and Read More

2021-04-10T16:15:13+01:00December 29, 2011|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property, Strategy|

Effective marketing and relationship management on a low budget

I wrote a chapter on this topic for Ark Publication’s “Best Practices in Legal Marketing” which was published last month. The article is written for lawyers in smaller firms who do not have the cash resources of their bigger competitors and provides ideas on how to market smarter rather than Read More

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