Culture

Coaching skills – How to work with people with fixed views and closed to new ideas (dealing with stubbornness)

At the recent PM Forum - PM Forum training workshop on “Coaching and Consulting skills for marketing and business development professionals” the issue of how to work with people with fixed views and closed to new ideas or refuse to consider change arose several times.  We avoided using labels such Read More

Build your brand advantage with PM Forum and Sholto Lindsay-Smith

In June, Sholto Lindsay-Smith (founding director of International brand and business consultancy (industrybranding.com)) presented a new PM Forum - PM Forum  training session on “Build your brand advantage”.  Sholto has worked with many professional services firms including: Bidwells, Birketts, Cluttons, Jackson Lees, JLL, Nexia and Stephenson Harwood.  Delegates from law, Read More

2024-06-12T17:12:16+01:00June 12, 2024|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|

A three-tier approach to private client marketing

This article was published in March 2024 in The Law Society’s Private Client Solicitor publication. Content is usually reserved for members but this version is available to all Tricks of the trade | Feature | Communities - The Law Society. A three-tier approach to private client marketing Tricks of the Read More

2024-05-09T14:11:28+01:00May 9, 2024|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Strategy|

28th PM Forum Conference: Organisational culture, mentoring, digital distraction, ESG and client experience (2023)

For over 20 years I have attended and reported on the annual Professional Marketing conference. Sometimes I have also presented sessions. The latest conference was reported in the winter edition of PM Magazine. Thanks to editor Matt Baldwin for his assistance. The theme of the 28th conference this year was Read More

2023-11-24T09:58:30+00:00November 24, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing|

Preparing M&BD professionals for the future – learning, skills and knowledge transfer

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

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