Leadership skills

Business Development Coaching Insights

At next week’s 29th Annual PM Forum Conference 2024 - PM Forum I’m presenting on coaching alongside Richard Chaplin | LinkedIn and Keith Hardie | LinkedIn. I thought it would be helpful to do a round-up of recent coaching articles which focus on business development. I’ve mostly drawn from PM Read More

Book review – Mentoring: A complete guide to effective mentoring by Dr Ruth Gotian and Andy Lopata

I’ve reviewed many books on coaching and mentoring over the years. This Financial Times Guide was published in Spring 2024 and is particularly attractive to leaders who want to understand the value of mentoring in the workplace. It will be valuable to human resources professionals who implement or improve their Read More

2024-10-07T15:09:49+01:00September 2, 2024|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Book review: You’re not listening – What you’re missing and why it matters by Kate Murphy

Active listening is a core communication skill that is fundamental for creating and developing relationships. Yet listening doesn’t receive nearly as much attention as other communication skills such as speaking, writing, presenting and negotiating. Effective listening is critical for so many activities such as learning, leading, client service, consulting, coaching, Read More

2024-06-07T08:15:32+01:00June 7, 2024|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management, Selling|

Change Management – Ted Lasso leadership lessons, emotions and coaching skills

Managing partners, heads of transformation and functional leaders joined a MBL “Tackling change management – a workshop for professional practices” full day workshop in London last week. It was great that law firms, accountancy firms and surveying firms were represented – as the challenges are similar. It was an intense Read More

2024-09-09T16:28:09+01:00May 3, 2024|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property, Strategy|

What do you do when your boss is a micro-managing control freak?

Sadly, this topic still comes up occasionally during training workshops. Many people have suffered at the hands of a line manager who wants to know in detail what is happening and to control everything. It can be frustrating and disempowering. But there are potentially several reasons for this behaviour – Read More

2024-03-04T11:38:15+00:00March 4, 2024|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|
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