At the end of November 2013, I submitted the 65,000 word manuscript to Legal Monitor for my fourth book. Whilst there are a number of existing books on business development for lawyers this one is different for a number of reasons: For all shapes and sizes of lawyers – whether Read More
I first read "How to win friends and influence people" way back in January 1984. That’s nearly 30 years ago (the book was actually written back in 1938). It had a profound effect on me - despite the fact that I am a psychologist and have read thousands of books Read More
At the recent Professional Marketing Forum conference there was a great session by Andy Bounds – “Britain’s sales trainer of the year” and author of the books “The Jelly Effect” and “The Snowball Effect”. Andy’s talk was primarily about how to effectively communicate strategy to people within an organisation. He Read More
I was invited to lead a half day workshop for marketers and lawyers at LawNet recently on this topic. We covered a lot of ground – some of which I have written about in previous blogs (see links below), particularly the 7P buy in model and toolbox. However, there were Read More
At a recent workshop for “Practical and professional skills for marketing and business development assistants” I asked the participants for their views on the most important practical tips that they were taking away. They picked two – one might argue obvious - techniques to help them improve their communications with partners Read More
