During the summer I worked with The Lawyer magazine analysing the real estate costs in law firms. Real estate costs and a wide range of other financial and head count data for over a 100 of the UK’s 200 leading law firms were analysed to produce the first detailed report Read More
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of leading 18 delegates from the legal, accountancy and engineering professions as we explored the personal, professional and technical challenges of becoming a “proactive marketing executive”. http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ Whilst we acknowledge that many marketing and business development professionals necessarily start their careers in Read More
I recently did some work on The Lawyer’s employee workplace benefits research into 70 law firms that resulted in articles in both The Lawyer http://www.thelawyer.com/ (15 June 2015) and Employee Benefits http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/ (July/August 2015) magazines. The overall findings were that there was less flexibility and innovation in employee benefits in Read More
If, like me, you use some of the relatively quieter summer months to tackle some learning you may be wondering how to improve your learning effectiveness. I wrote, a short while ago, about two models to help us understand more about the learning process: http://kimtasso.com/boost-training-effectiveness-learning-theory-nutshell/ where I outlined Honey & Read More
Last week I was joined by over 20 surveyors at the first presentation on this new MBL course on “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice”. Change management is a key topic. During the day we covered a lot of material including: business planning, strategy development, management functions, market analysis, Read More