Change management

Legal market research – LexisNexis Bellwether 2016 report highlights

Legal market research in the LexisNexis Bellwether Report 2016 “The riddle of perception” was recently published. The research involved structured interviews with 122 independent lawyers and 108 clients of which 93% had experience of private client legal matters. Some of the highlights from the report include: Just under half of Read More

Achieving buy-in – Oranges, elephants and dancing

I recently visited Nottingham to lead a session for the East Midlands branch of the Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/locations/eastmidlands.aspx called “Achieving buy-in – getting it past the partners”. It was hosted in the fabulous offices of Browne Jacobson (loved their open plan staff café and the “News in the loos” Read More

2016-04-24T11:50:00+01:00April 24, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Being more strategic – Six insights (Bias, Data, Complexity, Tolerance, Journey, Skills)

Earlier this week, Norton Rose kindly hosted another presentation of the PM Forum’s “Being more strategic” training session where 18 delegates from solicitors, barristers, accountancy, actuarial and property firms attended. As always, at the end I asked which topics resonated most with the delegates and these were the main insights: Read More

Thought leadership lecture for Laurie Young – The future of the professions

On Monday evening I attended the Inaugural Lecture for Laurie at Allen & Overy’s offices where there main speakers were Richard Susskind and his son Daniel. James Luke from IBM was also interviewed and there was a panel discussion with representatives from Allen & Overy, The Law Society, the Institute Read More

Top tips for motivating people

I’ve written about motivation before. But last week – at one of MBL’s “Managing and Marketing a Profitable Surveyor’s Practice” - I was asked to produce a blog that pulled together some of the many ideas for motivating people. They apply to property folk as much as others. Accept that Read More

2016-01-30T14:19:17+00:00January 30, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property|
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