Conflict management

Book Review – Attached by Dr Amir Levine and Rachel Heller (Identify your attachment style and find your perfect match)

Attachment style can have a significant impact on how you form and sustain relationships throughout your life. Many therapy clients find it helpful to consider how their parents raised them and the impact on their attachment style. I originally read this book back in 2011 (it was published in 2010) Read More

2025-08-12T08:59:52+01:00August 12, 2025|Kim's Blog, Relationship Management|

Book Review: The Culture Map by Erin Meyer – Decoding how people think, lead and get things done across cultures (Diversity and cross-cultural intelligence)

There are some excellent models and resources about cross-cultural intelligence. (I particularly like the Hofstede Country comparison tool). But this book – recommended to me by one of my clients – was a revelation and is my favourite resource so far. I recommend it to leaders, human resource professionals or Read More

Assertiveness toolbox

The “Assertiveness, effectiveness and impact” Home - PM Forum training workshop was lively. Thanks to the delegates from legal, accountancy, private equity, insolvency and engineering firms from across the UK. Amongst their sector were: social housing, charities/NFP, real estate and oil & gas. Assertiveness is the extent to which you Read More

2025-05-16T07:58:59+01:00May 16, 2025|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Proactive Marketing and BD Executive: Skills questions

It was a full house at PM Forum’s “Proactive Marketing and Business Development Executive” online full day workshop with 19 enthusiastic delegates from all over the UK – and two from Poland. This article supplements the learning resources for the workshop. Proactive Marketing and BD Executive: Skills questions Throughout the day there was Read More

2025-04-29T11:08:38+01:00April 29, 2025|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management|

International business negotiation – The Majalis approach

Whilst Middle East negotiations fill our newsfeeds at present, I am not about to comment on them. But it is worth considering the lessons for international business communications and negotiations we could learn from the Middle East. At a recent negotiation skills course, we talked about where to hold negotiations Read More

2025-01-23T10:01:49+00:00January 21, 2025|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Psychology, Relationship Management|
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