Relationship Management

Don’t jump to conclusions – Coaching and Consulting skills (Expectations, Relationships, Listening, Goals and Implementation (February 2022))

It was a full house on the second presentation of this PM Forum training  workshop on “Coaching and Consulting Skills for Marketing and Business Development” in February 2022. Most of the professions – lawyers, patent attorneys, accountants, economists, engineers and actuaries – were represented. This post explores one of the Read More

2022-02-11T16:55:49+00:00February 11, 2022|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Relationship Management|

How to facilitate groups – 2 (Herding Cats)

The majority of my clients are lawyers, accountants or surveyors – the professions. It’s said that working with the professions is like herding cats. Some of my clients – the patent attorneys and forensic scientists - also have PhDs in cutting-edge technologies. A double challenge. Professionals are usually successful, independent, Read More

2022-01-19T16:14:28+00:00January 19, 2022|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Book review – Brilliant personal effectiveness by Douglas Miller

The start of a New Year means new habits right? I have run training sessions on improving personal effectiveness for many years so it was good to find an introductory book that covers the majority of the topics. It also contains a fair amount of positive psychology (which is pretty Read More

2022-01-04T10:03:13+00:00January 4, 2022|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Referrals – The role of internal communications, messaging and storytelling and post-Covid “water cooler” moments

Earlier in December I facilitated another of MBL’s  popular “Developing more work from referrers and intermediaries” full day LearnLive training sessions. With delegates from legal, accountancy, surveying, architectural and financial services firms there was lots to discuss. Dominant themes were referrals – the role of internal communications, messaging and storytelling Read More

2021-12-19T12:34:01+00:00December 19, 2021|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Coaching and consulting skills for M&BD workshop (November 2021)

I was delighted to present the first (fully booked!) Professional Marketing Forum “Coaching and consulting skills for marketing and BD” workshop earlier this month. This post includes some of the key points arising from the coaching and consulting skills for M&BD workshop as well as signposting resources requested by the Read More

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