Mark Law, Lead Tutor
Expert consulting practitioner with extensive experience in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Certified Management Consultant & Registered Mentor for the CMC. Career Mentor to London Business School MBA students and Alumni.
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Professional Certifications
One of the things I enjoy most about my job is helping people take the next steps in their careers. Examples of this include helping people:
- Switch careers into consulting (from all sorts of professional backgrounds)
- Land jobs with the big consulting firms (includes LBS & Judge MBA students)
- Secure their next roles following redundancy (I am particularly proud of this)
- Set up as independent consultants (this is enormous fun!)
- Grow their consulting practices
A common theme in all my work is the discovery that consulting skills give people a major advantage in today’s competitive workplace. This is true even for those with advanced degrees and other professional qualifications (~30% of my students have MBAs). Why is that?
I was recently interviewed by the editor of Professional Manager (the Chartered Management Institute magazine, circulation ~90,000). Click here to download the article.
What I argue in this article is that managers spend a great deal of their time tackling investigative problems and that consulting skills help them become much more effective at this. Why risk ‘winging it’ when there are extremely powerful consulting methods that can help you and your colleagues tackle complex problems and challenges much more effectively at lower risk?
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As a professional engineer I have long been fascinated by ergonomics, the art and science of optimising the human / machine interface. This superb book is all about how to optimise web site ergonomics and get the best possible results in terms of building your brand and attracting business. Continue reading
Do you ever get the feeling that web surfing is a bit like driving a car on vacation? We pass through all sorts of interesting places yet if we need to capture their essence we need to go to the hassle of pulling over, climbing out, preparing the camera and then take the photograph. On the web we have to go to the effort of bookmarking a page (useless when the web site changes) or perhaps copying and pasting the web page into an MS Word file and figuring out where to save it on our hard drive. What a hassle! Continue reading
Venue: Lincoln’s Inn. Format: 1 hour interactive presentation + Q&A
Speakers: Nader Tavassoli, Professor of Marketing at LBS & Richard Hytner, Deputy Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide Continue reading
London Business School’s Professor Lynda Gratton has said employers will look for specialist skills in the coming years. Professor Gratton said that employers will be looking for “deep” skills over more general ones over the next decade. She suggested that people looking for work in 2020 will be required to have a far different set of skills than today. Continue reading
Management of Value or MoV is a major UK central government initiative designed to ensure the effective deployment of value management / value engineering (VM/VE) throughout the public sector. MoV is led by the Major Projects Directorate of the Cabinet Office. Continue reading
Several enterprising people recently booked onto our courses having secured 100% funding for course fees, qualifications and travel expenses.
Please email laura@amskills.com for further information about these little known training grants which are available to independent consultants and those facing redundancy in the UK.
Chartered Management Institute
We are a fully Approved Training Centre of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). The CMI is the UK’s leading chartered professional body for professional managers, founded in 1947, and currently has over 90,000 members. The CMI offers a wide range of qualifications which ultimately lead to the Chartered Manager professional qualification. Visit www.managers.org.uk/ for more details.
Institute of Consulting
We are a fully Approved Training Centre of the Institute of Consulting (IoC). The CMI merged with the Institute of Consulting (IoC) in 2007. The IoC was founded as the Institute of Management Consultancy in 1962, changed its name to the Institute of Consulting in 2011 and currently has more than 7,000 members. Between them the CIM and IoC offer a range of consulting qualifications.
Institute of Value Management
We are a fully Approved Training Centre of the Institute of Value Management (IVM). The ICM is the UK’s professional body for Value Management / Value Engineering (VM/VE). Click here for more information about VM/VE. Click here for more information about VM/VE qualifications. Visit www.ivm.org.uk for more details.
Value for Europe
Through the Institute of Value Management we are fully accredited to deliver training under the Value for Europe (VfE) programme. VfE was developed to improve European competitiveness by establishing standards of performance and accrediting professionals in the application of VM methodologies. Visit www.ivm.org.uk/training-value.php for more details.
ELCAS
We are a fully Approved Training Centre by the Ministry of Defence under the Enhanced Learning Credits Administration Services (ELCAS) scheme for military and ex-military people wishing wish to develop their professional skills.
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Dear Visitor,
Here are some resources to help you with your career and stimulate thought. We are passionate about CPD and regularly attend seminars by business leaders and academics at the world’s top business schools and professional bodies. Here are the main categories we have organised this growing collection of material under:
- Book summaries – get the gist of great books without the grind
- Event summaries – we report on fascinating events we have attended
- How to future proof your career – how to turn the verb into a noun!
- How to manage stress – embrace good stress and avoid the bad
- Useful technology tips – some ideas to improve your productivity
- Interesting developments in the world of consulting
- When the day is over – light hearted anecdotes from the world of consulting
Navigate via the ‘free resources’ widget on the right. We continuously update this site with content from our work as consultants, facilitators and trainers.
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Institute of Directors
We run face-to-face courses at the Institute of Directors, London, UK and in-house or online.