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The 3 reasons professionals limit their new business wins by becoming jack-of-all trades

For the next few months to celebrate the launch of our next book ‘The Go-To Expert’, I will be blogging weekly, including extracts from The Go-To Expert, about topics to help you become The Go-To Expert and build a partner sized client portfolio. In this week’s blog post we are going to look at why …

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If you only read one book on how to market and sell yourself….

… let it be my new book… The Go-To Expert. Yes, my third and possibly final published book, The Go-To Expert publishes tomorrow. Why should I buy the Go-To Expert? The question you may ask is ‘why should I buy this book?’ I like to think that the review kindly given to the book by …

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6 tips to eat and drink your way to reduced stress levels

One of the four ingredients needed to get rapid career progression is a healthy mind and a healthy body. However, with the amount of stress which is just the norm in the professions, it is not always easy to obtain the healthy mind and healthy body bit. I have noticed that due to my very …

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How to build your reputation as ‘one to watch’ right from the early days in your firm

In last week’s post I introduced the concept of ‘Partnership Potential’. In today’s post, I am going to explore more the concept of partnership potential, by looking at how the reputation you develop for yourself drives the likelihood of you becoming seen as partnership potential. The advice in this blog post will help progress your career …

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5 key ingredients needed if you are to be seen as ‘partnership potential’

For some people, the route to partnership is a hard slog. (In fact, probably for most people.) However, there are often a few number of people who seem to be given extra help and all the right assignments and experiences to make it to partner. These select few are often tagged by partners as ‘partnership …

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5 ways to train your mind to get great results from networking events

Getting results from attending a networking event depends as much on your attitude as whether you are going to the right event in the first place. In this article, we explore how to get the right attitude and mindset to achieve the best results from attending a networking event or group. What is the small …

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Your first 90 days in the job – why is this so important to your work/life balance?

Over the last few months I have been delivering a couple of events around the topic of ‘how to have it all – partnership and a life’ or if you were at the ACCA autumn update, ‘how to have it all – a career and a life’. In this talk we do talk about how …

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Business Development Clinic: 7 deadly business development mistakes – which ones are you making? (part 2)

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 seen …

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Business Development Clinic: 7 deadly business development mistakes – which ones are you making? (part 1)

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 seen …

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