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Sherwood Report on Gender Balance in Law Firms – Could Try Harder!
Imagine it’s coming up to the end of the Easter term at school. Report time for law firms! Some A’s, a few B’s, but on Diversity and Inclusion, I’m afraid it’s a ‘Could Try Harder!’ My Sherwood partner Ann Collier … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership and Management, Managing Change, Strategy
Tagged diversity, gender balance, inclusion, unconscious bias
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Why Law Firms Don’t Listen to Consultants
Partners don’t listen to outside advisors for several reasons – most of them good ones! Here are a few. I also provide some thoughts on what consultants could do more of, less of and differently to build better working collaborations … Continue reading
Diversity Fatigue in Firms?
In the week that Sherwood Consulting presented our findings on women in leadership roles in law firms there was an interesting Schumpeter column in The Economist. If you’re interested in gender balance and diversity in firms, read on… The column … Continue reading
The Drain of Female Talent in Firms
Most firms tell me that they meet many more impressive young women than men when they’re recruiting. So there’s something wrong when this talent chooses not to stay and become partners. And firms are missing out big time! A major … Continue reading
Coaching the Six Steps to Positive Habits
There are stages to our development. We start off being unconsciously incompetent – as a young child, for example, we don’t know we can’t ride a bike. Then we get on a bike and become consciously incompetent. Then with somebody’s … Continue reading
How to Write a Persuasive Email
Joseph Pulitzer the great journalist said: Put it before them briefly so they might read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. … Continue reading
Law Firms Need to Use More ‘Nemawashi’
The Japanese can teach us about decision-making and successfully implementing change. They use an approach called Nemawashi, which roughly translates as ‘smoothing around the roots before planting’. Toyota has pioneered the use of nemawashi (see http://blog.toyota.co.uk/nemawashi-toyota-production-system). Basically the nemawashi approach … Continue reading
How to Deal With Resistance to Change Within Law Firms
Most resistance to change gets communicated subtly. We need to pick up the clues. The resistance is often not in the words they are using but more in the manner through which they are communicating. How naive I was when … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership and Management, Managing Change
Tagged 9 out of 10 enthusiasm, peter block, resistance, tactful
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A Bible for Mentors and Trainees in Law Firms
Law firms have a great tradition of learning from the master – sitting with Nellie, as it is sometimes called in the UK. It’s a great way of learning. But only if ‘Nellie’ has good practices and is a good … Continue reading
Leadership in Law Firms is Too Important to be Left to Partners
Law firms have a wealth of untapped talent at the senior associate (SA) level in my view. If partners could let go a bit more, so much more could get done and margins would be improved. I’m not talking about … Continue reading
Tony Reiss 
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