As a substantial part of my coaching work includes career coaching and counselling – both for those who are professions in the traditional sense (lawyers, accountants and surveyors) and modern professionals (marketers and business developers) I joined two recent webinars to hear others’ views on career development. Each webinar was good in Read More
At the recent coaching skills course for Professional Marketing Forum delegates studied and practised a variety of coaching skills including: contracting, process, exploring/questioning, providing feedback and perspective, reframing, problem solving, goal setting, action planning and motivation. But what generated the most interest amongst the mid and senior level managers was Read More
As a psychologist and a salesperson I was blown away when I first read Cialdini’s great book on the psychology of persuasion (was that really over 10 years ago?). There’s a summary of the six principles below. His work features in many of my influence, persuasive writing and buy-in training Read More
I led the PM Forum’s “Developing your coaching skills” course http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ this morning at the fabulous offices (with amazing riverside views) of Fieldfisher (thank you again for hosting!). I first presented a version of this course back in 2008 and it was really good to have one delegate return for Read More
Yesterday, I led another training session for CLT on Business Development for Lawyers in London. The session takes delegates on the journey from analysing their markets and services, setting goals, selecting appropriate strategies and creating integrated marketing, communications, sales and relationship management campaigns. As usual, the nature of the delegates’ Read More
