These were just a few of the themes igniting the passions of marketing and business development people from professional service firms at the recent PM "Stakeholder management and buy-in" training workshop. I think it’s fair to say that there was a little therapy going on before we got down to business Read More
Three recent news reports captured my attention on client service insights for law firms and professional service firms. Addleshaw Goddard solicitors uses empathy Addleshaw Goddard – a major law firm – topped the charts for client service (performance and value for money) in the Nisus Consulting research http://www.nisus.net/ to become Read More
I recently presented a new course on cross-selling and referrer management for marketers and business developers in professional services for the PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/. As the many other blogs on these topics will demonstrate, they are big issues and we had to be selective on what we covered. However, the Read More
At a recent workshop for surveyors (“Managing and marketing your surveying practice” http://www.mblseminars.com/Outline?progid=5865) I was asked to write a blog about managing client service in surveying and property partnerships. It’s a big topic, but here are the headlines with signposts to further reading. Why is managing client service in surveying Read More
Managing teams and virtual teams was the topic generating most interest at a recent Future Marketing Manager course (see http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/). In professional service firms, there are all manner of temporary campaign groups, cross-departmental teams to support sector based initiatives and virtual teams for major firm-wide projects. Sometimes the team members Read More
