Firm Beliefs Ideas and Techniques February 2014

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Welcome to Firm Beliefs’ Ideas and Techniques Focus

February 2014

Bringing the outside world in…Or – what are you reading/listening

to right now?


Run this health check

I have a regular time set aside to listen/read about issues external to the organisation

I read about more than just my own skills set or my own sector

I often put into practise something I have learnt when listening/reading.


What last year’s webinar groups listed:

Charities – you need to be reading about other charities, social enterprises and for profits. Your sector is the ‘social impact sector’ and they all operate in that.Legal services – you need to be reading about ABSs, MDPs, legal services providers AND other professional services providers – as well as outsourcing businesses; offshoring businesses; Google… and charities/social enterprises. They are all sources of legal advice to clients.

Information about my sector (as far as I can tell what my sector is any more!). Expand the sector you think you are in…


Information about other sectorsTry this:

Follow 3 or 4 new organisations/individuals from other sectors on Twitter for a month. What do you learn?Buy a journal from the newsstand about something completely different. What does it tell you about your own sector?Listen to a new podcast each month from a different sector. What can you learn from the sector’s experience?


What about your skills set?

Go back to the organisation that set the quality schemes for your skills set: Finance, HR, Marketing/Comms, Ops/Technology/Procurement etc.Look at organisations that train individuals in those areas.

What are they recommending/teaching for tomorrow? Are you up to speed and accomplished in those skills?


Then… embed what you know in your own organisation

How do you currently embed new knowledge?

How do you debate and discuss that knowledge?

How do you feed it into your strategic reviews?


Finally…

Who is in charge of ensuring you are constantly looking externally and learning from other individuals/organisations/sectors?

Everybody in the organisation should know the answer to this question.

Even if the answer is ‘just you’!


Join others to discuss and share experiences

At forthcoming client webinars.

Details of dates:http://www.firmbeliefs.co.uk/resources.php

Click here for how the webinars work:http://www.slideshare.net/sarajdixon/firm-beliefs-webinar-series-2014-introductory-slides

Open to clients only.

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Keep bringing the outside in:For existing clients from the charity, legal services and social enterprise sectors:

Webinar Friday 31st January:

The environment for different types of alliance. This was fully booked. RUNNING AGAIN CONTACT US FOR DETAILS.

The Next Webinar: 21st FebruaryLatest techniques for feasibility studies

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For old and new clients:Ideas and Techniques mailingMarch 2014How to make your stakeholders stick with you for the longer term.

Get-together for those on the Skills Development Programmes:May 2014: Liverpool, Manchester, Cambridge and London venues

Talk to us about a Board to Board exchange day:http://www.firmbeliefs.co.uk/firm_exchange.php

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Join Firm Eliters at the next event:

http://www.firmbeliefs.co.uk/firmelite.php

http://www.firmbeliefs.co.uk/firm_exchange.php

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