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Creative competencies

Dr Robert Epstein, a psychologist at Harvard, is well known as a leading thinker on creativity. He developed a simple model which identified the following important dimensions of creativity (creative competencies): Capturing This relates to how well you capture and preserve ideas as they occur to you. For example, artists carry Read More

2014-08-20T14:36:28+01:00February 22, 2013|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|

Helping fee-earners prepare the perfect pitch Mk II

A week ago, we ran another of the PM Forum’s “Helping fee-earners prepare the perfect pitch” sessions which was hosted by reputation management consultants Regester Larkin. Here are some of the main issues arising. Pitch challenges The delegates had a variety of challenges that they wanted to address but the Read More

2013-09-08T19:04:04+01:00February 14, 2013|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property, Selling|

It’s all in the mind? – Getting to grips with psychometric testing

Interested in a free personality assessment? I’ve just completed four days training with Psysoft http://www.psysoft.com/ to achieve the British Psychological Society (BPS) Occupational Ability and Personality Test User Certification Level A and B using NEO PI-R Personality Inventory. Yes, psychometric testing! This is to add to my armoury of a BPS Read More

Understanding General Counsel – Four recent research reports

There were four research reports to help us understanding General Counsel (in-house lawyers) published recently. Each drew out some surprising findings: Nabarro’s third annual general counsel report (surveying 100 GCs from FTSE listed and large private companies) indicated that 75% were keen to receive further training on influencing. GCs from Kellogg, Misys and Sony Read More

Guide to successful secondments for professional firms and their clients

Secondments have long been used as effective means to both develop the careers of young professionals – particularly in terms of acquiring international experience - and to provide  added value to important client relationships. Typically, a young professional is sent to work as part of the client team for a Read More

2015-11-13T13:26:20+00:00January 3, 2013|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Property, Relationship Management|
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