Active Listening

12 thoughts on delegation, coaching and team management (2019)

At a recent Professional Marketing workshop on “Delegation, coaching and team management”  I asked delegates from a variety of roles and professional service firms to provide their one-word summary of the themes explored during the day. Here are their 12 thoughts on delegation, coaching and team management: 1. Be adaptive Read More

2020-01-22T10:28:48+00:00January 22, 2020|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Book Review: Helping people change: Coaching with compassion for lifelong learning and growth by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten

This review appeared in the most recent addition of Professional Marketing magazine. “Helping people change: Coaching with compassion for lifelong learning and growth” is an important book for those interested in behaviour change and change management– whether as a professional coach, a learning and development (L&D) expert or a leader who Read More

2024-03-04T16:54:54+00:00October 18, 2019|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Client Feedback – From the horse’s mouth: The Crown Estate, Surrey County Cricket Club and JUUL Laboratories (2018)

At the 2018 Professional Marketing Conference, there was the usual client panel where clients of legal, accountancy and property professional services firms gave their views on marketing and client service. Continuing the series of Client Feedback – From the horse’s mouth: The Crown Estate, Surrey County Cricket Club and JUUL Read More

10 takeaways from a workshop on buy-in (Guildford, 2018)

Thanks to Stevens Bolton https://www.stevens-bolton.com/ for hosting a Professional Marketing Forum workshop on buy-in Guildford http://www.pmforum.co.uk/locations/guildford.aspx After a lively session including exercises, discussions and sharing ideas, the delegates selected the following top 10 takeaways: 1. Face-to-face contact A recent HBR report suggested that face-to-face requests were 34 times more likely to Read More

2018-09-13T09:22:32+01:00September 13, 2018|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Change management – Millennials, metaphors and resistance

These three themes – Millennials, metaphors and resistance - arose during the most recent MBL change management for professional service firms training course https://www.mblseminars.com/Outline/Tackling-Change-Management---A-Workshop-for-Professional-Practices/8417 Millennials and change management One of the key topics of conversation was that the younger generation have a different outlook and approach which can prove challenging Read More

2021-09-12T19:16:33+01:00October 10, 2017|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property, Strategy|
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