Personal Impact

Assertiveness and confidence – Clarity, power and incisive questions

At the recent PM Forum workshop on “Assertiveness, Effectiveness and Impact for Marketing and Business Development Assistants and Executives” we welcomed a lively group of delegates. Marketing and business development roles in professional services are improving on many fronts yet there were some worrying results (see poll results below): Just Read More

2026-05-11T09:57:33+01:00May 11, 2026|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Boosting Your Confidence at Work – A Toolbox for Success (Be more swan)

Earlier in July I was excited to facilitate a new workshop with MBL on confidence. It was really well received by delegates from law and financial services firms well as from legal government departments. This post is intended as an additional learning resource for delegates. Poll results are shown below. Key Read More

2023-07-17T09:04:48+01:00July 17, 2023|Kim's Blog, Management Skills|

Be visible, assert and challenge and remember your goals – Insights from an Assertiveness, impact and effectiveness workshop

Last week there was almost a full house at the PM Forum’s  workshop on “Assertiveness, impact and effectiveness for marketing and business development assistants and executives”. Delegates were from legal, accounting and actuarial firms in a variety of roles including marketing, business development, digital, graphic design, events and client services Read More

2022-05-19T12:30:16+01:00May 19, 2022|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Book review – Brilliant personal effectiveness by Douglas Miller

The start of a New Year means new habits right? I have run training sessions on improving personal effectiveness for many years so it was good to find an introductory book that covers the majority of the topics. It also contains a fair amount of positive psychology (which is pretty Read More

2022-01-04T10:03:13+00:00January 4, 2022|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

An MBA is great – but you’ll need soft skills to make an impact

This article "An MBA is great – but you’ll need soft skills to make an impact" was published on the Association of MBAs (AMBA) web site on 23 November 2018  https://community.mbaworld.com/blog/b/weblog/posts/an-mba-is-great-but-you-ll-need-those-soft-skills-to-make-an-impact They don’t teach you about soft skills and relationships at Business School, but these are what could make the vital difference to Read More

2018-12-03T10:01:50+00:00December 3, 2018|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management, Selling|
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