Kim TassoProperty marketing case study – Transformational change in Savills’ bid processes
Posted on: November 18, 2020
The London Committee of the PM Forum hosted an event on 11th November where Ellie Blenkinsop (The Client – Head of Bids at Savills) and Francesca Ayers (The Consultant – Get Serious), shared inspiring and practical insights from their ‘journey’ of transformational change in Savills’ bid processes. They started by explaining that the transformational change […]
Book review: “The change catalyst – secrets to successful and sustainable business change” by Campbell MacPherson (Change Management)
Posted on: September 26, 2018
I was at the Business Book Awards https://www.businessbookawards.co.uk/ in March. I saw Campbell’s humble and humorous acceptance speech when this book scooped the overall winner prize. The judges’ glowing commendations meant that I simply had to read it. The change catalyst is indeed a great book. It’s beautifully written and a welcome addition to change management […]
Non-Executive Directors: Benefits for professional service firms
Posted on: April 27, 2018
It has been my great pleasure to have been a Non-Executive Director (NED) for various professional service firms for many years. I currently hold two such positions for property professional practices (see http://kimtasso.com/consultancy/non-executive-director/). I thought I would share my experiences of the role and talk briefly about Non-Executive Directors: Benefits to professional service firms. The […]
Book review: How to become the firm of choice by Robert J Lees and August J Aquila (strategy development)
Posted on: September 4, 2017
This book review of “How to become the firm of choice” on strategy development in PSFs appeared in Professional Marketing magazine in the September 2017 edition. This book tells a story. In the form of a case study. It joins a mid-sized (21 partner) law firm on its two year journey to develop and implement […]
Coaching skills – The power of questions (2017)
Posted on: May 31, 2017
At the most recent coaching skills course we reflected on the power of questions. In most coaching sessions, we use a simple framework of questions like John Whitmore’s GROW (Goals – Reality – Options – Will to act) to help the person reach their own conclusions about what they want and need to do. The […]