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Managing Partners’ Forum Strategy Summit

Red Star Kim

My takeaways from the insightful facilitators and panellists were: Recruitment of lawyers is down on previous years whereas business support is up Increase in tax hires in law firms Increase in marketing roles (exceeding 2019 numbers) Whilst training/learning roles shrunk compared to 2019 there was an increase in employee relations roles Legal sector (..)

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Future Marketing and Business Development Manager: Connections, Collaboration, Context, Creativity, Cause and Continuous learning

Red Star Kim

For complex projects we must collaborate with those in other functional specialisms such as finance, technology, people and innovation. Delegates represented a variety of roles – many were MBD generalists covering a range of activities (planning, marketing communications, client listening, account management, campaigns, pitches etc).

Marketing 130
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How Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Assistants can shine – Develop knowledge and skills, build personal brand and increase visibility

Red Star Kim

The session comprises three elements: marketing and business development fundamentals, practical marketing communication and business development skills and growing your career. Role of PR and external communications External communications are fundamental for raising awareness and increasing brand recognition.

Marketing 130
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Managing Partners’ Forum – Highlights from the Advisory Board Meeting September 2023

Red Star Kim

Updates are provided by Richard Chaplin, Jon Geldart and John Rowland together with the chairs of the Forum’s specialist groups: Management Teams Together; Finance & Operations; Strategy & Marketing; People, Performance & Culture. This compares with 84% for the Spring 2023 tracker and 71% for the Winter 2022 tracker.

Meetings 130
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Q2–2022: Product updates to Insightly AppConnect, Service, Marketing, and CRM

Insightly

Insightly CEO Anthony Smith showcased all of these new features and improvements to our customers worldwide during the Q2–2022 Product Update webinar while highlighting how these changes can help to drive more value for you and your business. . No usage or record limits or restrictions on data transfers with AppConnect. Request a demo.

CRM 98
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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. Delegates then chose to focus on finance, economics and pricing. Finance fundamentals Financial awareness is another capability required by M&BD.

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Questions on confidence at work

Red Star Kim

Delegates from law (including the Crown Prosecution Service) and finance firms joined a workshop on “Boost Your Confidence at Work – A toolbox for professionals”. There were lots of ideas for appearing confident when communicating electronically or participating in virtual meetings.

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