Relationship Management

Referrer management – Grading, Research, Discipline, Storytelling and Leveraging your exemplars

Last week I facilitated MBL’s  full day training session on “Developing more work from referrers and intermediaries”. Delegates were from legal, accountancy and insolvency firms – both M&BD teams and fee-earners. The main takeaways for the delegates can be summarised with the following themes: Referrer management – Grading, Research, Discipline, Read More

2023-04-17T12:36:03+01:00April 17, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Book review: Connected leadership – How professional relationships underpin executive success by Andy Lopata

I’ve read many books on professional relationships – and I’ve even written one myself (see Better Business Relationships book by Kim Tasso (Bloomsbury)). But I’m always on the look out for more that are relevant for professional services and practical. This book addresses networking (both in person and through social Read More

Cultivate a cross-selling culture

We were joined by delegates from legal, accountancy and consultancy firms for PM Forum’s “Cross-selling and referrer management accelerator” workshop earlier in March. A summary of delegate discussion topics and poll results are shown below to add to the learning resources from the session. While we discussed various tools and Read More

2023-03-16T09:48:05+00:00March 16, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management|

What do you do when a male colleague doesn’t like women? (gender bias)

This was a question posed to me recently by a woman at a workshop. Whilst this question is about prejudice towards women (sex and gender bias) it could just as easily have been about age or culture or disability or sexual orientation or any other difference. I am sure you Read More

2023-02-09T15:32:05+00:00February 9, 2023|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Referrer and Intermediary Management – Silos, Targets and Culture

At the end of January, I enjoyed meeting delegates (at the Novotel at Tower Hill) on the MBL  “Developing more work from referrers and intermediaries” workshop. There were architects, bankers, accountants, forensic investigators, insolvency practitioners, lawyers, pension advisers and tax experts who had a range of areas of expertise including Read More

2023-02-09T11:49:07+00:00February 9, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property, Relationship Management|
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