Soft skills

What is curiosity and why is it important in business relationships? (Video)

(Script) Hi. I’m Kim Tasso. And I guess you are watching this video because you are curious about curiosity? I’m going to explore what is curiosity and why is it so important in business relationships. As well as for learning, your future employability and even your leadership. Then I’ll take Read More

2025-03-11T11:33:56+00:00July 2, 2021|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Book review: Digital Body Language – How to build trust and connection no matter the distance by Erica Dhawan

A shorter version of this book review: Digital Body Language – How to build trust and connection no matter the distance by Erica Dhawan was published in the Summer 2021 edition of Professional Marketing Magazine  which is sent free to members of the Professional Marketing Forum.  Overview I was excited Read More

2021-06-30T16:20:38+01:00June 30, 2021|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Managing client complaints – Process, anger and apologies

Many firms – particularly since the rapid digital transformation resulting from the Covid crisis – are focussing on improving the User Experience (Ux) and Client Experience Management (CEM). But there are always occasions when things don’t go to plan, errors are made, expectations are not met or there are delays Read More

Dealing with “difficult” people – Nine strategies for dealing with arrogance

I was surprised that at two recent workshops, delegates indicated that the attitudes and/or behaviours that they least like dealing with was arrogance. More so than anger, aggression and sadness. During another training scenario, I noticed that people acting in a superior way evoked similarly strong negative reactions. So this Read More

2021-06-01T15:39:59+01:00June 1, 2021|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Seven themes on assertiveness, effectiveness and impact – We’re all in the same boat on fee-earner relationships

At a recent PM Forum workshop on “Assertiveness, effectiveness and impact” a key insight was the reassuring realisation that we are all in the same boat on fee-earner relationships. Seven themes on assertiveness, effectiveness and impact emerged on fee-earner relationships (guilt, value, variety, impact, influence, questions and time). 1. Ignore Read More

2021-05-21T17:44:53+01:00May 21, 2021|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management|
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