Human Resources

Conversation skills book review 3: Conversational intelligence – How great leaders build trust and get extraordinary results by Judith E Glaser (2014)

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

2023-05-22T15:35:30+01:00May 22, 2023|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management, Selling|

Research update on the most in-demand soft skills

Following my past research (some of which was published in my 2020 book Essential soft skills for lawyers (kimtasso.com)) I keep an eye out for the latest information relating to the soft skills (particularly leadership skills) most in demand and how these relate to the professional services sector. So here Read More

New Leadership Development Programme from the Managing Partners’ Forum – Consensus through Collaboration

I’m excited to announce that the Managing Partners’ Forum has just launched a series of six modules for an innovative leadership development programme for firm-wide leaders of small and medium sized professional services firms. Versions for divisional, functional and aspiring leaders are expected in 2024. I have supported Richard Chaplin Read More

2023-05-02T09:38:48+01:00March 30, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills|

Roles, satisfaction and aspirations of Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Assistants

It was a full house at the March workshop on “Practical and Professional Skills for Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Assistants” although almost all delegates were from law firms across the UK. The discussions and polls (see below) provided interesting insights into the roles and aspirations of those entering professional Read More

2023-03-24T09:19:20+00:00March 24, 2023|Kim's Blog, Marketing|

Manage and grow your private client practice – Recruitment, Performance, Segmentation and ROI (February 2023)

This post summarises some of the key themes emerging from the recent online MBL “How to manage and grow your private client practice” full day session  . It is intended to supplement the learning resources for delegates provided on the day – delegate aims, poll results and takeaways are shown Read More

2023-02-28T14:17:44+00:00February 28, 2023|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Strategy|
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