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How do you win a competitive bid? In this blog post, we will share our top 15 tips to help you write winning proposals so that you can ace that bid for a competitive tender. Tip 1: Highlight your 10% difference Unfortunately, much of what you put in your proposal will be mirrored in your…
We are used to being “too busy” – our daily lives consisting of juggling work tasks, looming deadlines, clocking out late, and then waking up to do it all over again – but somehow we manage. Somehow we manage to keep pressing on and any dreams of a ‘break in the schedule’ are pushed to…
So many working in professional service firms are shocked when they realise that they are expected to go out and win work. They don’t consider themselves as working in “sales” and can’t work out how to fit it in. If you want to progress your career, you need to get over these thoughts and start…
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The days when you could get to partnership as a brilliant technician are long gone… Even if you only work on very big-ticket items, to get to be a Magic Circle, Big Law, Big 4 partner or partner at a large firm you still need to have proved your ability to win work and be…
How do you make time for business development when you have a full day – especially if you are a lawyer? As you start to go up the ladder, on the way to making partner, your responsibilities get bigger. And with a full day, how do you ensure that your career still moves forward and…
Senior decision makers in large corporations don’t spend much of their time searching online or using social media. Unlike smaller firms or businesses, they don’t go out to networking events and all of their emails and calls are often screened by assistants. So how do you attract corporate clients if you can’t get in front…
By now you have realised that making partner is about more than technical ability and you also need to be winning regular work. You need to know how to become a rainmaker. This is a totally different set of skills than your technical skill-set so you may be worrying about how you can make this…
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