I recently visited Nottingham to lead a session for the East Midlands branch of the Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/locations/eastmidlands.aspx called “Achieving buy-in – getting it past the partners”. It was hosted in the fabulous offices of Browne Jacobson (loved their open plan staff café and the “News in the loos” Read More
I review lots of books on persuasive writing (see the list below) to identify those that will prove useful to the lawyers, accountants, surveyors and marketers who attend my writing courses. As the importance of good quality content increases, there is continuing demand for those who can write persuasive copy Read More
A dozen directors and managers from professional service firms joined me on the PM Forum’s “Developing your coaching and mentoring skills” experiential training session this week. http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ It was a great day – and we particularly enjoyed the role plays of coaching sessions with team members and fee-earners which provided Read More
I was delighted to be invited by the Yorkshire Committee of the PM Forum (http://www.pmforum.co.uk/) to lead a lunchtime session (hosted by DLA Piper in Leeds and organised by Amit Champaneri) on planning and campaign management. I was even more delighted to find that over 50 folk turned up to hear Read More
Recently I ran another of the popular “marketing planning in a nutshell” training session for PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/. The 18 delegates – from a variety of legal and accountancy firms - selected the key topics discussed for a follow up blog post: 3 themes from marketing planning: Stepping stones, persuasion and Read More
