Coaching

Leading a surveyors’ practice – Eight insights into leadership in property

At the recent Leeds presentation of the “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice” training workshop we discussed leading a surveyor’s practice - leadership in property. Some of the leadership models discussed were considered helpful. We tackled a number of common issues when leading a surveyors’ practice and these are Read More

2016-07-20T09:57:53+01:00July 20, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Property, Strategy|

Are you ready to change? Remember the change process

The start of a New Year usually finds people all fired up and determined to change. Usually it’s about personal fitness and health but often it’s about business change. But are you or your people really ready to change? Leaders and coaches would do well to remember that there are Read More

2016-01-04T10:09:20+00:00January 4, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills|

12 tips from a coaching and mentoring skills course (2015)

A dozen directors and managers from professional service firms joined me on the PM Forum’s “Developing your coaching and mentoring skills” experiential training session this week. http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/  It was a great day – and we particularly enjoyed the role plays of coaching sessions with team members and fee-earners which provided Read More

2015-12-11T15:43:49+00:00December 10, 2015|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills|

Change management book review: “Switch: How to change things when change is hard” by Chip and Dan Heath

I’ve just written a review of this book for Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ I’ve read many books on change management before but this one comes with a really big recommendation. It’s quick, easy and inspiring to read. And the few lessons – illustrated beautifully with great success stories from all Read More

2015-09-16T16:33:46+01:00September 16, 2015|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property|

Improve learning effectiveness – Using Kolb’s learning styles

If, like me, you use some of the relatively quieter summer months to tackle some learning you may be wondering how to improve your learning effectiveness. I wrote, a short while ago, about two models to help us understand more about the learning process: http://kimtasso.com/boost-training-effectiveness-learning-theory-nutshell/ where I outlined Honey & Read More

2015-08-18T17:23:44+01:00August 18, 2015|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|
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