People Skills

Future Marketing and Business Development Manager – Transition from technical expert to adviser

A few top insights from last week’s full day training workshop on “Future Marketing and Business Development Manager” by PM Forum. The session covered many topics including: management skills, strategic thinking, financial scenarios, marketing and business development (MBD) theories, developing MBD plans, soft skills, gaining internal buy-in and managing a team. Read More

Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

MBD executives, advisors, managers, client services executives and BDMs from law firms, economics and management consultancies joined a PM Forum  workshop on “Coaching and Consulting Skills for Marketing and Business Development”. We explored the changing role of marketing and business development (MBD) professionals and the growing need for coaching and Read More

2024-07-19T15:43:04+01:00February 15, 2024|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Managing Partners’ Forum Strategy Summit

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

2023-07-13T15:45:33+01:00July 13, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Strategy|

Book review – Persuasion: The art of influencing people by James Borg

I have read many books on persuasion and influence. My favourites are those by Dr Robert Cialdini  - and I recently made a short (10 minute) video covering his six principles of persuasion.  This is a book review - “Persuasion: the art of influencing people” by James Borg. It is Read More

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