Skills

Business development writing for lawyers – 13 top tips for writing for impact

Academic writing. Technical writing. Professional writing. Lawyers are generally good writers. But business development writing by lawyers? That’s a different can of worms. I recently ran some workshops on business development writing for lawyers – providing guidance and coaching on how to achieve impact and response. We considered a variety Read More

2016-07-11T15:38:31+01:00July 11, 2016|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Social Media|

Being more strategic – Six insights (Bias, Data, Complexity, Tolerance, Journey, Skills)

Earlier this week, Norton Rose kindly hosted another presentation of the PM Forum’s “Being more strategic” training session where 18 delegates from solicitors, barristers, accountancy, actuarial and property firms attended. As always, at the end I asked which topics resonated most with the delegates and these were the main insights: Read More

Book Review – Persuasive writing (how to harness the power of words) by Peter Frederick

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

2016-01-16T14:11:31+00:00January 16, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Selling|

Checklist: 25 practical and professional skills for marketing and business development assistants (2015)

Yesterday saw another successful training session for PM Forum with delegates from legal, accountancy and property firms at the “Practical and Professional Skills for marketing and business development assistants” http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ Summarising the discussion, here is a checklist of 25 practical and professional skills for marketing and business development assistants. Perception  Read More

2015-11-20T15:38:58+00:00November 20, 2015|Kim's Blog, Marketing|

Psychology, neuroscience and client engagement

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

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