A few top insights from last week’s full day training workshop on “Future Marketing and Business Development Manager” by PM Forum. The session covered many topics including: management skills, strategic thinking, financial scenarios, marketing and business development (MBD) theories, developing MBD plans, soft skills, gaining internal buy-in and managing a team. Read More
Richard Chaplin | LinkedIn, Founder of the Managing Partners' Forum |, hosted the 101st “Retuning your firm” webinar this morning. Guests included: Jeremy Beard | LinkedIn, John Rowland | LinkedIn, Alastair Beddow | LinkedIn and Alex Hamilton | LinkedIn. It was a masterclass in how to pack a 45 minute Read More
Marketing moves at a very fast pace – and professional marketing standards and qualifications need to keep up. The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has revised its professional qualifications. The last major revision was in 2020. CIM qualifications provide guidance on what knowledge, skills and behaviours are needed throughout a Read More
Most professional services firms use events as an integral part of their marketing and business development (MBD) campaigns. And many firms have MBD professionals who focus solely on event management. So it was good to hear the July CIM https://www.cim.co.uk/ webinar which was dedicated to event management. Richard John | Read More
At the 28th PM Forum Annual Conference in September I (in my capacity as Head of Training and Learning Transfer of the Managing Partners’ Forum and PM Forum), co-presented breakout sessions with Julie McConnell of international law firm White & Case. Our focus was on the accelerating change in the Read More
