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To Those in Management Roles Running Law Firms – Some Support!
First of all let’s acknowledge the challenges and frustrations inherent in your role. You knew it wasn’t going to be easy – but this? There are good days and bad days but it’s a tough role. More than anybody else … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching and Training, Leadership and Management, Managing Change, Strategy
Tagged change, coaching, Law firm, Leadership, management
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Your Partners are Probably Great Lawyers. But are they Great Leaders?
When we talk to recently-appointed partners about their new role, we frequently hear something along the lines of “we are expected to be leaders now”. The word leadership gets used a lot these days. We use it all the time. … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership and Management, Managing Change
Tagged administration, Law Firms, Leadership, management, motivation, vision
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How Effective is Your Team? Is it like a well-run Arsenal or more like Rangers?
Law firms are made up of lots of teams. They spend hours in meetings. But how effective are they? There’s the board, perhaps with the role of looking at the strategy of the firm, looking for appropriate firms to merge … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership and Management, Managing Change, Strategy
Tagged Lawyers, Leadership, management, meetings, teams, teamwork
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Why Partners Don’t Do the Business Development You Want Them to Do
I’ve recently been approached by a big law firm asking me to deliver a speech to get the partners ‘out there doing more business development’. I told them that this approach was unlikely to work without understanding what the ‘blockers’ … Continue reading
How to Make Those Difficult Conversations Easier
Life in any firm can be hard. One of the things that makes life difficult is having difficult conversations. Here are some examples: There’s the colleague you’d like to talk to who either hardly ever turns up to group meetings, or … Continue reading
Leadership is Too Important to be Left to the Partners
Law firms have a wealth of untapped talent at the senior associate (SA) level. If partners could let go a bit more, so much more could get done and margins would be improved. For SA’s, I’m not talking about … Continue reading
Decision-Making – Getting Them Right and Ethical
One of the biggest challenges leaders face is making decisions. Many decisions are based on instinct or gut feel (this just feels right). Some are based on precedent (that’s what we did before and I can’t be sure of the consequences … Continue reading
Masterclass on Developing Relationships with Overseas Firms and Clients through UKTI on 13 March.
Just a couple of places available. Details available through the link below….. http://www.ukti.gov.uk/export/unitedkingdom/london/event/217980.html
Changing How We Think, Feel, Behave to be More Effective – the art of cutting a new groove
We are who we are! Can’t change! Take us or leave us! Right? Well, possibly. But what would it look like if we could change? Would we be more effective and possibly even enjoy our work more? This blog will … Continue reading
How strong’s the glue that holds your firm together?
Are you a superglue or masking tape kind of firm? Do your partners really, really understand what it means to be a partner in your firm? Even all the lateral hires who haven’t grown up in the firm. Even those … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership and Management, Managing Change, Strategy
Tagged culture, decision-making, ethics, Law Firms, Leadership, values
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