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
Following my past research (some of which was published in my 2020 book Essential soft skills for lawyers (kimtasso.com)) I keep an eye out for the latest information relating to the soft skills (particularly leadership skills) most in demand and how these relate to the professional services sector. So here Read More
I regularly review and summarise benchmark reports for law, accountancy, property and consultancy businesses. So here are two 2023 benchmarks for law firms: The Law Society/Hazelwoods and the Institute of Legal Finance & Management (ILFM)/Crowe. It’s interesting to compare the results from the two benchmarks. The Law Society and Hazelwoods Read More
I’m excited to announce that the Managing Partners’ Forum has just launched a series of six modules for an innovative leadership development programme for firm-wide leaders of small and medium sized professional services firms. Versions for divisional, functional and aspiring leaders are expected in 2024. I have supported Richard Chaplin Read More
This post summarises some of the key themes emerging from the recent online MBL “How to manage and grow your private client practice” full day session . It is intended to supplement the learning resources for delegates provided on the day – delegate aims, poll results and takeaways are shown Read More
