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Developing your practice

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Pippa Blakemore BSc PGCE, of The PEP Partnership LLP, will be leading three fully participative and interactive sessions on ways in which you can develop your practice.

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Turn contacts into clients and referrers: the relationship building approach to international networking

This interactive and participative session will give you practical tips and ideas on how to grow your practice and how to:
  • network successfully;
  • build relationships internationally;
  • make the most of any event you attend without feeling ‘pushy’ or uncomfortable;
  • introduce yourself to other people and remember their names;
  • extract yourself from boring people;
  • follow up with any people you meet in a personal way;
  • develop and strengthen relationships with referrers and intermediaries;
  • read other people’s body language and control your own;
  • find reasons to keep in touch in different ways;
  • talk about fees without embarrassment;
  • conduct sales meetings with confidence; and
  • win new work.

TUESDAY 1000 – 1300
Madrid, 1st Floor, Left



Increase your value to current and future clients: the RAINBOW strategy


Your clients can be your greatest ambassadors and sources of new work. We will develop strategies to:
  • understand the current pressures on your clients;
  • understand your clients’ business;
  • strengthen and deepen your relationships with your clients;
  • increase the quality and quantity of work from your clients;
  • meet client expectations; • provide ‘added value’
  • obtain feedback on your clients’ perceptions of you;
  • anticipate and prevent problems; • deal with difficult clients and complaints;
  • handle challenging fee discussions; • cross-sell between your firm and the client;
  • prepare a client relationship management strategy; and
  • implement your client relationship plan.

 

WEDNESDAY 1500 – 1800
Madrid, 1st Floor, Left



Give a winning presentation


By the end of this session, you will have given a presentation, in which you know how to:
  • win and keep the audience’s attention for a wide range of audiences;
  • make a complex legal lecture interesting to all;
  • deliver a winning pitch presentation; • keep to time;
  • project your voice effectively; • use your body language powerfully;
  • be impressive in your personal appearance; • handle awkward people and answer difficult questions;
  • increase your confidence and overcome your nerves; and
  • use your notes and visual aids effectively.

THURSDAY 1500 – 1800
Madrid, 1st Floor, Left

 


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