Kim TassoChange management: Building Resilience – Regulation, Reframing, Relationships and Reflection (Video)
Posted on: May 17, 2020It’s Mental Health Awareness Week. As we are all experiencing tremendous strain and stress with the Coronavirus impacting on every aspect of our work and homes lives, I thought I’d share some ideas about resilience. So here’s a 10 minute video looking at four tools to help you become more resilient: Building Resilience – Regulation, […]
Changing behaviour in the workplace to boost productivity – Insights from psychology
Posted on: December 2, 2019
In October, I was invited by Richard Chaplin and Richard Thorby of the Managing Partners Forum https://www.mpfglobal.com/ to lead a discussion on “Changing behaviour in the workplace to boost productivity – Insights from psychology” for the People, Performance and Culture group (including directors and HR professionals from leading law, architectural, property and accounting firms). This […]
Be more Jessica Pearson – Nine tips on assertiveness, impact and effectiveness for marketing and BD executives
Posted on: March 30, 2018
At a recent assertiveness, impact and effectiveness workshop for marketing and BD executives we considered our various heroes and heroines. Jessica Pearson, managing partner of a fictitious New York law firm in the television series Suits, was considered an exemplar of assertiveness, impact and effectiveness. A good role model because Jessica fulfils all three aspects […]
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Posted on: December 20, 2016
These topics – Critical Thinking and Problem Solving – form a major part of the creativity and innovation workshops that I run (for details of public courses see here http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx). There are many other blogs on creativity (see, for example: http://kimtasso.com/the-psychology-of-creativity/ and http://kimtasso.com/creative-competencies/). In this blog, I explore critical thinking in more detail. It’s particularly […]
Positive, persuasive and persistent – Therapy and theory of partner buy-in
Posted on: June 19, 2015Anger 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 – All about buy-in“ in early […]