Anna Farmery at the Engaging Brand blog has a nice post about what you can do to develop your team members. She has some good and easily actionable tips for helping develop the skills of your team. I’ve added a few of my own too.

Be able to listen, and actively show you’re listening, is a really valuable skill in business. It can help you develop relationships more effectively with colleagues, managers, clients and suppliers.

I’m pleased to say that I’m going to be going to the Delivering the New PR conference in London on Friday, 10 November 2006.

After a particularly manic week on all fronts, it’s good to take a few minutes out and reflect on what’s behind some of the bizarre goings-on at work.

Troy White has a good post about the wide range of tools that are now available to marketers.

A post today on Duct Tape Marketing reminded me of a conversation I had with a colleague a few days ago about personal branding. We were talking about why I had a website and why I took the time to create it and blog regularly on it.

I’ve just finished listening to my first podcast from www.manager-tools.com. The site features literally hundreds of podcasts on management-related topics.

I’ve recently been involved with the recruitment of a number of marketing roles, and have been amazed how badly marketers market themselves.

Full mix experience in marketing used to mean knowing what you’re doing both above and below the line. Yet now, to be a full mix marketer you need to know how to manage and execute digital campaigns properly.

When I moved to a marketing and PR job in the public sector, colleagues at the time were surprised. The experience I’ve gained so far has been invaluable, and I’d go so far as to say I think every marketing or PR professional would benefit from spending some time working in the public sector.

I now hold Chartered Marketer status from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).

I have today started my new interim role as Account Director as Enterprise IG.