I’m often asked to provide training in conversation skills. Whether it’s for confident or commercial conversations as part of the networking skills toolkit or part of a relationship building or sales conversations. I often wonder whether the conversation skills gap was caused by the imposed isolation during the Covid lockdowns Read More
During a recent MBL persuasive writing course in Manchester we addressed many of the same issues as on previous writing courses (see, for example: http://kimtasso.com/whats-right-write-highlights-persuasive-writing-business-development-workshop/ and http://kimtasso.com/five-favourite-thoughts-on-fantastic-writing-from-a-business-development-writing-workshop-2015/ and http://kimtasso.com/business-development-writing-lawyers-13-top-tips-writing-impact/). But there were also some specific questions which the delegates asked me to address in a blog post on persuasive writing Read More
During the course of a career spanning over 30 years I’ve read a lot of sales books. I even wrote my own back in 2000 (http://kimtasso.com/publications/selling-skills-for-the-professions/). But when I first read Insight selling back in 2014 I thought it was a bright star of a book amongst many disappointing and Read More
This is one of a series of blogs on problem solving, creative thinking and creativity to support a number of public and in-house training courses on the subject with regards to strategy and business development. Please let me know (kim@kimtasso.com) if you would like further details of half and full Read More
Most lawyers, surveyors and accountants moan about how many internal meetings they have to attend and what a huge amount of time (and money) is wasted in them. So how do we make our meetings more effective? Common sense and communication The professions are bright people. They understand that effective Read More
