At the end of last year I ran a half day training session on management and leadership for marketing and business development professionals. Some key topics of interest were emotional contagion, delegation, coaching and team meetings: Emotional contagion Those around us are affected by our emotions. This means that if Read More
Last week I was in Manchester for an MBL training course on “Developing and sustaining your private client practice”. Over half of the delegates were heads of private client departments with responsibility for developing and growing their teams and private client marketing was a major theme. Here are the five Read More
At the recent Future Marketing Manager http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx we covered the usual wide range of topics. However, the three themes that involved the most discussion were perception, motivation and planning. Perception Perception is “the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted”. There was recognition that how marketing and business Read More
At the 2017 Professional Marketing Conference http://www.pmforum.co.uk/conference.aspx , Anna Lind, Director of Client Relationship Management at JLL where she leads a team of seven, provided a fabulous property marketing case study. She talked through her six element client relationship management (CRM) and key account management (KAM) programmes which she has Read More
I am often asked for book recommendations on my coaching and mentoring courses so I thought I’d take a look at this one on coaching models. It’s stuffed full of useful models so I’d recommend it to experienced coaching practitioners. But as coaching (and counselling) skills are important in establishing Read More
