Communication

Negotiating skills – Balancing task and relationship

I thought I’d share a few key ideas from some recent workshops on negotiation skills. Sometimes I am training business support professionals, but on occasions I am asked to work with legal professionals who typically are known for their excellent negotiation skills. I use the model of balancing task and Read More

2024-04-16T12:10:34+01:00April 16, 2024|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Pick up the phone – Who answers calls, how do you train people on call handling and how do you improve conversion rates?

There were delegates from legal and accounting firms at the training session on “Pick up the Phone – client service and sales opportunities for professionals in the digital age” MBL this week. Delegates were in management, marketing and fee-earning roles. This post summarises the main points raised and is a Read More

2024-04-12T15:07:18+01:00April 12, 2024|Accountants, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management, Selling|

What do you do when your boss is a micro-managing control freak?

Sadly, this topic still comes up occasionally during training workshops. Many people have suffered at the hands of a line manager who wants to know in detail what is happening and to control everything. It can be frustrating and disempowering. But there are potentially several reasons for this behaviour – Read More

2024-03-04T11:38:15+00:00March 4, 2024|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Future Marketing and Business Development Manager: Connections, Collaboration, Context, Creativity, Cause and Continuous learning

In early December (and despite the train strike), we gathered at the offices of London | Simmons & Simmons (simmons-simmons.com) for a workshop on “Future Marketing and Business Development Manager”. Training - PM Forum. It was an energetic and exciting day where everyone took away different ideas and actions. Future Read More

2023-12-12T11:56:34+00:00December 12, 2023|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Book review – Can we start again? The patterns of NLP applied to business interactions by Daryll Scott

This book review was published in  Magazine - PM Forum way back in 2008. However, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) has arisen a few times at recent training workshops so I thought I would publish the review as a blog post. Book review – Can we start again? The patterns of Read More

2023-12-07T09:44:58+00:00December 7, 2023|Kim's Blog, Relationship Management|
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