Earlier this week, Norton Rose kindly hosted another presentation of the PM Forum’s “Being more strategic” training session where 18 delegates from solicitors, barristers, accountancy, actuarial and property firms attended. As always, at the end I asked which topics resonated most with the delegates and these were the main insights: Read More
Leading North-West building consultancy Anderton Gables appoints management consultant Kim Tasso to its Board as a Non-Executive Director from February of this year. Anderton Gables building consultancy, which has offices in Manchester and Preston, was established in autumn 2007 by business partners Jonathan Shaw and Andrew Whittle. Since then, Anderton Read More
At a recent MBL “Developing more work from referrers and intermediaries” training workshop in Bristol (see https://www.mblseminars.com/outline?progid=5770 for future dates and locations), the delegates identified two themes that would shape their future strategy. Referrer management - Back to basics The first part of the session focussed on “Thinking and Planning”. Read More
At last week’s “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice” workshop in Glasgow, where the focus was on how to achieve profitable growth, the delegates identified six insights into managing a surveyors’ practice 1. Produce a (short) strategic business plan Some firms had a business plan that needed to be Read More
At a recent Proactive Marketing Executive course (see http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/) we spent a fair amount of time talking about marketing/business development initiatives where the focus is on managing a few major clients - a Key Account Management KAM programme. I was asked to summarise the key reasons why firms should concentrate Read More
