I facilitate various workshops designed to increase commercial awareness. For young professionals. And it’s good to be able to recommend reliable sources of information at those sessions. This short (130 pages) information-packed book was revised in 2019. And I commend it to those looking to initiate their commercial awareness journey. Read More
Towards the end of June I attended a PM Forum London Committee event on “Harnessing the power of your people”. As well as addressing a number of internal communications and engagement, cultural and brand ambassador issues there was a focus on the importance of alumni programmes. Both existing and past Read More
Thanks to the Managing Partners' Forum Strategy Summit at haysmacintyre earlier this week. My takeaways from the insightful facilitators and panellists were: Recruitment of lawyers is down on previous years whereas business support is up Increase in tax hires in law firms Increase in marketing roles (exceeding 2019 numbers) Whilst Read More
At this week’s change management for professional practices workshop, I welcomed delegates from legal, accountancy and property firms. Their roles included managing partner, head of HR, operations manager, lawyer and property management team leader. Their change challenges included new technology adoption, shifting from dedicated to centralised services, succession, team performance Read More
I’m often asked to provide training in conversation skills. Whether it’s for confident or commercial conversations as part of the networking skills toolkit or part of a relationship building or sales conversations. I often wonder whether the perceived conversation skills gap was caused by the imposed isolation during the Covid Read More
