Anger management, changing perceptions, expectations management, risk aversion, new CRM systems, protectionism, inertia and even monkeys - There’s always so much variety when we discuss the challenge of partner buy-in for marketers in professional service firms! At the most recent PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ workshop “Getting it past the partners – Read More
Intermediary and referrer management was the topic for a full day session at a recent MBL training event in London and also a recent conference session for international accountants in the CPAAI network in Amsterdam. Referrer and intermediary management is one of my key themes this year and I have Read More
Last week I had the honour of presenting a paper at the annual LawSouth conference on Achieving extraordinary client engagement. Here is a summary of the main points raised by the speakers: The people are everything – Julian Summerhayes http://juliansummerhayes.com/ Julian started his talk with quotes from “The age of Read More
At the Law South 2015 conference last week, I presented a paper that explored some of the latest developments in psychology, neuroscience and client engagement that might help support people in achieving extraordinary client engagement. I can’t cover all the content on I presented psychology, neuroscience and client engagement, but here Read More
At the Professional Marketing Forum training session for Future Marketing Managers last week I talked about the Finnish quality of “Sisu”. Future Marketing Managers need some Finnish “Sisu” or Japanese “Ganbaru” for success. There isn’t a direct translation in English of this special quality which is part of the Finnish Read More