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7 building blocks of a proactive marketing executive (2015)

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of leading 18 delegates from the legal, accountancy and engineering professions as we explored the personal, professional and technical challenges of becoming a “proactive marketing executive”. http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ Whilst we acknowledge that many marketing and business development professionals necessarily start their careers in Read More

2015-10-07T16:22:40+01:00October 7, 2015|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Seven insights into client care and service excellence

Last week I facilitated a CLT seminar on “Client care, client service and client retention” http://www.clt.co.uk/course/Client-Care-Service-Excellence-and-Retention/ Whilst we covered a lot of material relating to understanding commercial and consumer client needs, engaging everyone in responding appropriately at all touch points and best practice in day-to-day service delivery, client care and relationship Read More

3 themes from marketing planning – Stepping stones, persuasion and momentum

Recently I ran another of the popular “marketing planning in a nutshell” training session for PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/. The 18 delegates – from a variety of legal and accountancy firms - selected the key topics discussed for a follow up blog post: 3 themes from marketing planning: Stepping stones, persuasion and Read More

2024-09-10T16:26:06+01:00September 25, 2015|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing, Property|

Change management book review: “Switch: How to change things when change is hard” by Chip and Dan Heath

I’ve just written a review of this book for Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ I’ve read many books on change management before but this one comes with a really big recommendation. It’s quick, easy and inspiring to read. And the few lessons – illustrated beautifully with great success stories from all Read More

2015-09-16T16:33:46+01:00September 16, 2015|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property|

Legal market research – The Lawyer’s In-house Attitudes Report

Earlier this year I worked on some legal market research with The Lawyer magazine to analyse the huge amount of data collected from 530 in-house lawyers for the fourth In-house attitudes survey. My executive summary of that report was published in June 2015 http://www.thelawyer.com/in-house/positive-attitudes-in-house-attitudes-report-executive-summary/3035939.article and the main points were as follows: Read More

2015-09-09T17:15:04+01:00September 9, 2015|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Statistics and trends|
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