There were four research reports to help us understanding General Counsel (in-house lawyers) published recently. Each drew out some surprising findings: Nabarro’s third annual general counsel report (surveying 100 GCs from FTSE listed and large private companies) indicated that 75% were keen to receive further training on influencing. GCs from Kellogg, Misys and Sony Read More
Happy New Year! 2013 has arrived. Perhaps, like me, you spent some of the break having a think about your plans for the future. More about this in due course. The other thing we do when presented with some of that rare time when clients are not clamouring for our Read More
Last week I went along to one of the free lunchtime seminars by Kelso Consulting and enjoyed a good chat before the session started with some of the commercial lawyers who had gone along to learn about thought leadership. What is thought leadership? Tim Prizeman started by exploring the concept Read More
As I am doing a fair amount of training and coaching on presentation pitches at the moment (particularly for actuaries, construction consultants and lawyers), I thought I’d take a look at the various books on presentation skills to recommend to people who ask for additional information. When I started reading Read More
In the current edition of Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/index.aspx there’s an article by me on communicating and developing business relationships in multi-cultural and cross cultural business environments. Three key models are explored and some practical guidance is provided. Due to space limits, the following nine dimensions of cultural leadership competencies from Read More
