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This is the second blog in a series by Martin Bragg, highly experienced business development expert with 20 years experience in professional service firms. Martin has worked in business development for major international law firms including the magic circle and for accountancy practices in the big four and beyond. (Martin’s 1st blog post can be found…
This is the first blog in a series by Martin Bragg, a highly experienced business development expert with 20 years experience in professional service firms. Martin has worked in business development for major international law firms including the magic circle and for accountancy practices in the big four and beyond. In this first blog post, Martin…
Sometimes, stress levels rise in the week or so before your holiday. Here are some tips to help you get everything done and to keep things in perspective in the run-up to your much deserved holiday. 1. Prioritise Not everything needs to get done by the end of the week! Look at what’s on your…
You can save time with your business development activities by using social media such as LinkedIN for networking. Let’s look at what needs to go into your daily routine on LinkedIn to use it as a great business development tool. The daily LinkedIn routine I will describe will allow you to ditch at least one…
The purpose of your CV is to get you to interview. Nothing more, nothing less. As a career coach, when helping job seekers, more often than not the first thing I am presented with is a CV. It always amazes me how easy it is to stand out from the rest of the job seekers by spending time on a well-thought out and written CV. Here are my top 11 ways for you to get your CV to stand out from the crowd.
Last week I was alerted by a friend that ‘How to make partner and still have a life‘ had been reviewed in the Law Society Gazette. Very kindly, my friend sent me her hard copy of the magazine in the post. It has been a nail biting few days waiting for both the postie and…
One of the hardest things to do when going for partner is to make the time to build your own client portfolio. Why? Well, when you are a director, salaried partner or associate, your partners are wanting you to be highly utilised. Business development is non-chargeable time – which often means it has to be…
In our ‘fast track to partner‘ audio masterclass series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Toni Hunter, George Hay, and Myfanwy Neville, Berg Kaprow Lewis LLP, two young partners who have successfully made the step up from director to partner in their accountancy practices. This was a frank and honest interview, stuffed full with pearls of…
I was working with a group of mainly young accountants yesterday delivering 2 workshops on networking skills. As part of this workshop, I ask them to write down a 5 year career goal. What was interesting that in the discussions, many of my delegates felt that having a 5-10 year career goal was unrealistic, as…
It can be hard to tell your partners that you want to go for partnership. You don’t want to come across as pushy or arrogant, or speak out of turn. In my interview with Jo Larbie, my co-author of ‘How to make partner and still have a life’, Jo talks us through how to do…
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