Business development skills

Proactive Marketing Executive – Plans, Budgets, Relationships and Career Development

Last week I was joined by 18 delegates from solicitor, patent attorney, accountancy, surveying and consulting practices for PM Forum’s “Proactive Marketing Executive” full day workshop.  The poll results and delegate comments are shown below. We cover a huge amount during the day: strategic marketing, operational marketing, managing campaigns, resource Read More

2021-09-10T09:20:22+01:00September 7, 2021|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Pitch Points – Five thoughts from a pitching and tendering workshop (January 2021)

I facilitated a full day online pitching and tendering workshop for MBL covering: policies, processes, research, sales strategy, selling skills, documents, presentation (content and delivery), post pitch actions and tendering metrics. Delegates were from legal and insolvency firms. There was a huge amount discussed during the lectures, exercises and polls Read More

2025-04-18T10:22:44+01:00January 22, 2021|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management, Selling|

Book launch: Essential soft skills for lawyers – some research findings

Between August 2019 and March 2020 I analysed a huge amount of information and research relating to the importance of soft skills within the UK legal profession. I also interviewed over 20 people from large and small law firms – lawyers and learning & development professionals – as well as Read More

What are soft skills? And why are they so important? (Video)

This 9 minute video explores: What are soft skills? And why are they so important? Video script Hi. I’m Kim Tasso. I am sure many of you are worried about the onward march of technology – things like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning and the impact these may have Read More

2025-04-05T12:50:39+01:00June 18, 2020|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Relationship Management|
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