Team building

Aspiring MBD leaders – Advice from a CEO

This is one of a series of articles supporting the Home – PM Forum new training course Aspiring Marketing and Business Development Leader – PM Forum (for marketing and BD managers looking at their next career move). Becoming a CMO is an aspiration for many senior MBD managers. So, I sought the views of Read More

2026-07-09T11:22:04+01:00July 9, 2026|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|

Consulting Skills – The power of workshops

At the recent PM Forum – PM Forum training workshop on “Coaching and Consulting skills for marketing and business development professionals” we spent time considering key consulting skills. In particular we focused on how to achieve engagement, buy-in, commitment and implementation for a “consultancy” project. As well as looking at stakeholder engagement in detail Read More

Conversation skills book review 3: Conversational intelligence – How great leaders build trust and get extraordinary results by Judith E Glaser (2014)

I’m often asked to provide training in conversation skills. Whether it’s for confident or commercial conversations as part of the networking skills toolkit or part of a relationship building or sales conversations. I often wonder whether the perceived conversation skills gap was caused by the imposed isolation during the Covid Read More

2023-05-22T15:35:30+01:00May 22, 2023|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management, Selling|

Classic management book reviews – The McKinsey way, Good to great, How to manage organisational change and Strategic Selling

At recent consulting, strategy and change management workshops delegates asked about some classic management books. I also noticed that “Good to great” was frequently referenced in some of the latest management thinking. As I had published the reviews below before starting this blog in 2008, I thought I’d re-post them Read More

2022-05-24T17:10:18+01:00May 24, 2022|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Selling, Strategy|

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|
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