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Are some of your lawyers a bit bored? Might this cause some under-performance issues?
If they are bored, let’s start by exploring what might be causing the boredom? One of the subjects that one of my partners Sally Woodward and I are really interested in is motivation – in particular, what motivates and demotivates … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching and Training, Leadership and Management, Managing Change, Strategy
Tagged career path, challenges, Lawyers, Leadership, motivation, Partners
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Why Lawyers Don’t Give Constructive Feedback
I am not sure why senior lawyers aren’t giving their junior lawyers more useful feedback. After all, we know: how important it is for lawyers to get everything right and manage risk how important it is to work efficiently, particularly … Continue reading
Helping Lawyers Learn New Skills
There are stages to our personal development and learning. We all start off being unconsciously incompetent. As a very young child, for example, we don’t know we can’t ride a bike. Then we get on a bike and realise it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching and Training, Leadership and Management
Tagged competence, culture, Lawyers, learning, mentoring, training, unconscious
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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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Building a Successful New Practice Group – a detailed study into why most initiatives fail and the factors critical for success
Most firms are finding it difficult to build new practice groups and are disappointed at the rate of progress. Many blame the fact that their firm’s ‘brand name’ works against them. But we were not sure that was a valid … Continue reading
Procter & Gamble’s Seven Selling Steps – a ‘traditional’ approach to selling
As part of my marketing and brand management training at P&G I had to go out and sell. The training was fantastic and I was motivated to do at least as well as the sales team, even though I was … Continue reading
How to Stimulate More Cross Selling Activity in Your Firm…..
Every firm I know wishes they could encourage more cross-selling — keeping business inside the firm that might otherwise go elsewhere. I started a thread on LinkedIn to get views from others and here’s a simple idea that will get … Continue reading
Posted in Business Development and Selling, Strategy
Tagged BD, Business Development, cross selling, Lawyers
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25 Ways to Make Your BD Efforts More Effective – including 5 specific initiatives that I know work
Having run three different in-house BD functions and having had responsibility for delivering value, I offer these ideas for improving marketing effectiveness. Some of them are high level and others are rather more specific. Some are about getting the thinking … Continue reading
To help you find persuasive client benefits when you’re pitching – consider the 5 types of benefit
To help lawyers find the language of benefits, it might be helpful to look at the type of benefits that exist. I believe there are five categories and two different recipients of the messages on benefits, as follows: The first … Continue reading
Posted in Business Development and Selling, Fee Negotiating, Networking
Tagged BD, Business Development, Lawyers, Selling
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