Dear fellow professional,
As chairman of the Managing Partners' Forum, I would like to welcome you to the MPF website. Founded in 1995, we are a member-led professional body, dedicated to enhancing leadership and the status of the management team through changing attitudes towards practice management. If you work for a firm with ambition, make a stand and join the MPF movement.
Watch my video introduction to MPF, filmed at the MPF 2010 European Practice Management Awards.
Sir Nigel Knowles,
DLA Piper
BOARDTALK
MPF BoardTalk is a new free member-only video series, in which MPF Chair, Sir Nigel Knowles of DLA Piper, interviews an expert on a set of management issues that are currently being debated by the Boards of professional firms. Each video lasts around 20 minutes.
Videos include:
more on BoardTalk...
MEMBERSHIP
Lead member: for managing partners or those responsible for their firm’s business strategy. Lead membership is individual and country-based.
Regional members: MPF events are member-only. To ensure that more firms can participate, firms can sign up Regional members, sponsored by a Lead member.
Leaders' Group membership: a series of communities for experts in management disciplines including: Finance, Risk, HR, Knowledge and Sustainability. Leaders' Group membership is by invitation. Typically, members represent their discipline at their firm's management committee.
more about Membership...
KNOWLEDGE
The MPF collects confidential data and conducts regular surveys amongst MPs and members of the management team based worldwide. All findings are released for free into the public domain to ensure professional firms everywhere have access to reliable facts on key management issues.
Knowledge brings together MPF surveys focused on aspects of strategy and leadership; Pulse (a free ad hoc enquiry service) plus the findings of Leaders' Groups surveys | more on Knowledge...
NEWS
Does it matter to your clients if your firm is well managed? Who are the best managed firms?
Inviting clients to rate the importance of a professional services firm being 'well managed' is an innovative yet logical development from the recent Financial Times/MPF survey. more on Best Managed Advisers...
Professions reduction in CEO optimism
The autumn 2011 MPF Business Priorities Monitor shows a dramatic reduction in CEO optimism - falling from around ’60’ (continued expansion) in July through ‘50’ (flat) towards ’40’ (major contraction) in the space of just three months. more on Business Priorities Monitor...
MPF European Leadership Awards 2012
The Awards have been refocused on leadership, with new categories reflecting this new emphasis. more on the Awards ...
CRM Performance Report
The 2011 Survey and Report should help any firm considering changing vendors or aiming to improve the effectiveness and results of their efforts to manage client relationships, and the strategic and financial benefits they gain. Download CRM report ...
Effective client relationships.
MPF and the Financial Times have worked together on a Report and Roadshow into the effectiveness of the corporate relationship between law firms and clients. Download Report and slide pack for free at http://ftcorporate.ft.com/resources/
Peer Groups launched
across the UK
The pilot programme in London has confirmed that our members consider one of the most important benefits of MPF membership to be the opportunity to participate in Peer Groups due to the high value of the confidential insights, experiences and strategies shared.
more on Peer Groups...
