Skills

Book review – Key Coaching Models by Stephen Gribben (and other coaching books)

I am often asked for book recommendations on my coaching and mentoring courses so I thought I’d take a look at this one on coaching models. It’s stuffed full of useful models so I’d recommend it to experienced coaching practitioners. But as coaching (and counselling) skills are important in establishing Read More

2024-03-04T16:07:34+00:00August 26, 2017|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Psychology|

Delegation for leaders

Delegation is a frequent topic of conversation with my clients - Whether it’s for freeing up the time of leaders, empowering new leaders, developing teams or working more efficiently/profitably. Traditional pyramid structures in professional service firms require that a senior person builds a team of junior people in order to Read More

2017-08-11T11:01:33+01:00August 11, 2017|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property|

Legal market research – Lexis-Nexis Bellwether research report 2017 “Why independent law firms are thriving”

Now in its fifth year, LexisNexis Bellwether has released the first of three legal market research reports for 2017. The research, in conjunction with Linda Jones & Partners, is based on 10 qualitative interviews and quantitative research with 118 lawyers in independent law firms (75% of whom had worked at Read More

2017-06-01T17:35:38+01:00June 1, 2017|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Strategy|

Getting what you want and how to say “No” – Assertiveness skills

In many of the courses I run for the Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx, the topic of assertiveness arises. Sometimes this relates to people needing the confidence to speak up and share ideas or to challenge requests. Often it relates to finding ways to decline or modify inappropriate requests – how Read More

2017-03-15T10:10:31+00:00March 15, 2017|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Proactive Marketing Executive – Seven standout subjects (February 2017)

The PM Forum Proactive Marketing Executive workshop has been running successfully for many years. We update the content regularly to reflect the changes taking place in marketing, digital marketing, the professions and the world at large. We cover a wide range of topics on strategic marketing, tactical marketing as well Read More

2017-02-04T17:15:29+00:00February 4, 2017|Kim's Blog, Marketing|
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