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Recently published articles by Kate Fleming

1. How can Lawyers be effective at winning new work?

This article looks at how Partners and Fee Earners can become effective at winning new work by:

  • reaching the clients who really count
  • reviewing where partners and fee earners go wrong
  • identifying the skills needed in order to sell
  • developing the techniques to identify & develop their clients needs
  • includes a review of the SPIN® Questioning Model

NEW LAW JOURNAL September 24 1999
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2. Beauty Parades: a strategic approach

With more firms chasing new clients, each other's clients and trying to retain the existing ones, the beauty parade is too potent a selling opportunity to waste.

This article looks at how to avoid the common pitfalls and how firms can turn the evaluation process to their advantage.

NEW LAW JOURNAL January 14 2000
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3. Practical Tips on how to profit from Seminars, Business Functions & Social Events

Winning business at seminars and social functions - why you need a strategic approach.

AXIOM June 2000
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4. Your Meetings - worthwhile or wasteful?

Some partners, fee earners and support managers spend up to 40% of their time in meetings. Multiply that by their hourly rate to see how costly these meetings can be if not managed effectively! 

This article provides some practical insight into getting the most out of meetings.

MANAGING FOR SUCCESS December 2000
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5. Stand your ground

If you are in a so-called 'Support Role' within the professional services sector - for example marketing, training, human resources, or IT the chances are that you will have found difficulty at some time in your career, in obtaining cooperation or commitment from your firm's Partners or Fee Earners.

Today more than ever, in order to achieve many of your day-to-day tasks and longer-term objectives, you will need to be proactive and effectively influence your Partners, Fee Earners and colleagues in other departments. Requests for involvement or commitment may be met with in-action, silence or worse still acute scepticism. You need to make sure that you well equipped to achieve your objectives and prove your worth to your firm……..

And the key to much of this lies, in the way in which you exert your influence.

This article reveals the areas to concentrate on in order to make your influence felt.

AXIOM January 2002
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6. Understand how your clients buy your services - and win more business

In this article on essential sales skills, Kate Fleming introduces the SPIN buying cycle to show how clients make decisions when buying high value services.

Effective Consulting Vol 1 No 6 Jan/Feb 2002    
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