Changing behaviours

BD training isn’t about taking technical experts and turning them into a salesforce. At its best, it is about behaviour change and personal growth, writes James Lumley. Lee Curtis’ frequent use of the taboo word ‘sales’ is deliberately designed to force fee earners to...

BD or not to BD Is coaching the answer?

Actuaries don’t market the services of insurance companies and software developers rarely put their coders in front of clients. Yet, even as professional services firms become better at harnessing the expertise of marketeers, the sector is increasingly training...

Doing the right thing?

Over the last few years, professional services firms have come under increasing pressure not just to do good, but to demonstrate that they are doing good both to their clients and to the world at large. How have they been doing this, and in what way is this impacting...

B Good

One of the biggest problems most businesses face when they choose to transition into demonstrating that they are a responsible businesses is the documentation. How exactly do you make the change and prove it? B Corp might be an answer, writes James Lumley. The...

Waving or drowning?

The digital revolution means that we are now drowning in an abundance of data. What’s a marketeer to do? James Lumley finds out more. In 2012, two years after the first iPad hit the market, iconic management publication The Harvard Business Review predicted that big...