Career Development

Enhancing your soft skills in 2023?

Where did 2022 go? It seemed to fly past. So now we are looking at how we might do things differently and better in 2023. One task will be to plan your self-development – particularly with regards to enhancing your soft skills in 2023. Here’s some inspiration to get you Read More

Marketing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) – The power of reflection?

Once a year I have to produce four reflective learning statements for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) in order to maintain my Chartered Marketer status as a Fellow of CIM. Each year I put off this exercise until the last minute. Yet I always emerge from the process feeling Read More

2022-08-30T16:36:40+01:00August 30, 2022|Kim's Blog, Marketing|

Book review: The psychology of successful women by Shona Rowan

I’ve known the author Shona Rowan (who is a high-performance coach, shares my love of psychology and understands professional services) for some time so I was keen to read her first book. I usually avoid anything that is aimed at women – yet this book contains some practical, straight-talking advice Read More

2024-09-22T11:01:19+01:00June 2, 2022|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Be visible, assert and challenge and remember your goals – Insights from an Assertiveness, impact and effectiveness workshop

Last week there was almost a full house at the PM Forum’s  workshop on “Assertiveness, impact and effectiveness for marketing and business development assistants and executives”. Delegates were from legal, accounting and actuarial firms in a variety of roles including marketing, business development, digital, graphic design, events and client services Read More

2022-05-19T12:30:16+01:00May 19, 2022|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Book review: How to advance your career in professional services marketing by Dominic Ayres

This article was published in the April 2022 edition of PM Magazine. A book review: How to advance your career in professional services marketing by Dominic Ayres. It’s a useful and timely book for those planning their careers in professional services marketing and business development. It starts at launching your Read More

2026-04-07T08:38:48+01:00April 22, 2022|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing|
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