Skills

What are soft skills? And why are they so important? (Video)

This 9 minute video explores: What are soft skills? And why are they so important? Video script Hi. I’m Kim Tasso. I am sure many of you are worried about the onward march of technology – things like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning and the impact these may have Read More

2025-04-05T12:50:39+01:00June 18, 2020|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Book review: The Human Edge – How curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economy by Greg Orme

This book “The Human Edge – How curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economy” by Greg Orme (London Business School, founder of the Centre for Creative Business and with clients including Accenture, EY and Arcadia) is both fascinating and inspiring. Most of us (lawyers, accountants, surveyors or Read More

New CIM professional marketing qualifications 2020

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)  is the professional body for marketers in the UK and it regularly updates its professional marketing qualifications at certificate, diploma and post-graduate diploma levels. I reviewed past changes in October 2014. Here is an overview of the new CIM professional marketing qualifications 2020 (which Read More

2020-03-09T11:48:42+00:00March 9, 2020|Kim's Blog, Marketing|

Leadership: Authenticity, values and culture

I was recently asked to facilitate a partner strategy session where the focus was on authenticity, values and culture. It was a highly interactive session with participants considering their personal values in a structured way before discussing them in peer groups. It was a softer parallel process alongside a more Read More

2025-09-16T09:06:09+01:00August 13, 2019|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property, Strategy|

Book review – Advanced Marketing Management: Principles, skills and tools by Nikolaos Dimitriadis, Neda Jovanovic Dimitriadis and Jillian Ney

I read and review a lot of books but this was one - Advanced Marketing Management: Principles, skills and tools by Nikolaos Dimitriadis, Neda Jovanovic Dimitriadis and Jillian Ney – is one of the best I have come across for a while. I have sung its praises to many people Read More

2019-05-29T12:46:27+01:00May 29, 2019|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Statistics and trends|
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