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How Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Assistants can shine – Develop knowledge and skills, build personal brand and increase visibility

The September PM Forum workshop on “Professional and Practical Skills for Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Assistants” was attended by 18 delegates from legal, accountancy, consultancy and actuarial firms. The session comprises three elements: marketing and business development fundamentals, practical marketing communication and business development skills and growing your career. Read More

2023-09-29T13:49:21+01:00September 29, 2023|Kim's Blog, Marketing|

Managing Partners’ Forum – Highlights from the Advisory Board Meeting September 2023

The Managing Partners' Forum (mpfglobal.com) holds quarterly meetings of its Advisory Board where senior leaders discuss issues pertinent to the professional services sector. Updates are provided by Richard Chaplin, Jon Geldart and John Rowland together with the chairs of the Forum’s specialist groups: Management Teams Together; Finance & Operations; Strategy Read More

2023-09-29T10:00:34+01:00September 29, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Statistics and trends|

Nurture a change management movement – From “Let it go” to “Let it grow”

Senior law and accountancy leaders attended a masterclass workshop in London last week. The session looked at how to ease personal transitions (individual change) whilst driving organisational change (primarily through cultural transformation). As well as rational approaches (we considered several change management methodologies including Kotter’s), both elements involve engaging emotions Read More

2023-09-26T15:44:22+01:00September 26, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills|

Conversation skills book review 4: The First Minute (How to start conversations that get results) by Chris Fenning

This is a slightly different conversation book to those I reviewed previously (see list below). The first two focused on starting a conversation in a networking situation. The third focused on conversations between leaders and their people. This book – published in 2020 – is also focused on internal conversations Read More

2023-09-20T11:08:25+01:00September 20, 2023|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management, Selling|
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