Monthly Archives: December 2012

Consultative Selling Using MBTI Psychological Profiling

There are four recognised stages to selling where there may be important aspects of the buyer’s psychological profile to consider, as follows: Initiating the relationship Investigating client needs Proposing a course of action Obtaining agreement and contracting My overall premise … Continue reading

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Are some of your lawyers a bit bored? Might this cause some under-performance issues?

If they are bored, let’s start by exploring what might be causing the boredom? One of the subjects that one of my partners Sally Woodward and I are really interested in is motivation – in particular, what motivates and demotivates … Continue reading

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If Tesco ran a Law Firm…..

When you get right down to it, law firms buy hours from their staff and then go out and try to sell them. Just like Tesco buy and sell apples. It’s a crude analogy but it’s essentially a similar activity. … Continue reading

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