Tag Archives: management

Leadership and Influencing

We had a very interesting KN-UK session yesterday on leadership and influencing with Carol Skolimowski of CAPCC, which included a wide-ranging discussion touching on managing millenials, encouraging women into leadership and herding cats. I imagine everyone’s takeaways were different, but … Continue reading

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International Projects and Management

Sometimes we get the opportunity in Knowledge Network UK to hear from a speaker who is from a different background to our professional services and knowledge management background, and it is always interesting and thought-provoking. Today we heard from Dr … Continue reading

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Birmingham Knowledge Network dates released!

I’m delighted to announce our finalised programme of events for Birmingham: 17th March, Graham Mitchell, Organisational Psychologist talks about change management and change readiness in law firms and gives top tips for embedding your new KM projects 10th May, Duncan … Continue reading

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Change Management training in Bristol

We are delighted to have Graham Mitchell, of t2i, coming along to our next Bristol KNW training lunch on 30th Sept to help us all understand how we can improve our KM and law firm projects and ensure they embed … Continue reading

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Thoughts on influencing

I’ve just read this interesting post from the research whisperer. Although the focus is on influencing policy makers through academic research, I think it has a lot to say to us KMers trying to influence at different levels within our … Continue reading

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Embed yourself?

I still follow a blog by the “research whisperer” from my MBA days. He has written recently about his experience rotating around, working in all the different faculties within his Uni (you can read this here). His comments about the … Continue reading

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CLT training date announced

*Update* The next session is on 25th May 2016. Find out more here.   Foundation course in KM for Law Firms. 24th September 2014 More details here http://www.clt.co.uk/Course/Knowledge-Management-in-a-Law-Firm-The-Works/   Do you want an occasional (approx monthly) email with updates about … Continue reading

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How are your New Year resolutions going?

It’s been a couple of weeks now since 2013 began.  Are you still keeping your resolutions?  If not, why do you think they have fallen by the wayside?  I’m not going to jinx my resolutions by discussing them here, but … Continue reading

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Generic Strategies 101

This is my second blog post about strategy, which follows on from my recent MBA module on the topic.  Read the previous one, Avoiding Bad Decisions, here. This post looks at Michael Porter’s Generic Strategies and how these can be … Continue reading

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Measuring successfully – 5 ideas

Someone asked me recently how they could improve the ways that they proved the worth of their KM work to the rest of the law firm.  Money is tight in many firms and KM can appear to some people to … Continue reading

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