I am often asked which books I recommend on consulting skills. I’m asked both by people contemplating a freelance consultancy career and increasingly by people who have an internal consultant role supporting a change management programme. Having started in a management consultancy (now Deloitte) in 1987, been an independent consultant Read More
It was a full house at the recent PM Forum digital workshop on campaign development, thought leadership and project management. Here is a summary of three themes on campaign development and thought leadership – Education, Integration and Measurement. Delegate polls and feedback are also shown. Key themes - Education, Integration Read More
18 delegates from law, accountancy and property firms joined me at the June PM Forum workshop on Key Account Management (KAM) and Account Based Marketing (ABM). The focus was on supporting fee-earners with client relationship management in KAM and ABM programmes at a firm-wide or client level. I’ve summarised Six Read More
This article was written for the delegates at a recent pitching workshop organised by the PM Forum as a summary to supplement the other course materials they received. There were seven pitching themes – specialisation, engagement, research, content, differentiation, project management and virtual presence. 1. Increasing specialisation Many marketing and Read More
This post is for the fabulous delegates at the recent PM Forum session on stakeholder management, engagement and buy-in. I don’t want to repeat what I have written about in previous stakeholder management, engagement and buy-in blogs so I have selected just seven thoughts from the emerging themes at the Read More
